Sentence examples for ostentatiously concerned from inspiring English sources

It is based on a thriller by Dennis Lehane, and, like Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (also adapted from a Lehane story), it is set in the blue-collar macho world of south Boston, although Affleck's movie is less ostentatiously concerned with its own tragic grandeur than Eastwood's.

Compared with his 1985 Philadelphia Orchestra recording, his interpretation has become less ostentatiously operatic, with greater concern for symphonic unity than the piling on of effect.

"But never ostentatiously".

Assorted Brazilians pray ostentatiously.

The fortune was ostentatiously manifest.

Vieiri ostentatiously refused to celebrate.

"Flamboasting" - showing off, partying ostentatiously.

Ministers are not ostentatiously corrupt.

The plots were ostentatiously silly.

The colonel is ostentatiously polite.

He doesn't ostentatiously seek out prestige.