Sentence examples for taste for ostentation from inspiring English sources

Ahern had absolutely no taste for ostentation.

This taste for ostentation reached positively baroque dimensions in later years.

He shares Gekko's taste for ostentation — showing off his Goya painting and his Ducati motorcycle, wooing Jake with visions of the good life — which may also be a reflection of Mr. Stone's aesthetic inclinations.

But the two "adored each other," a friend of theirs later wrote, and shared a taste for "great comfort without ostentation, good food and... vintage Bordeaux".

He had no love for ostentation.

With Joyce you will seek vainly for ostentation, no grand 'Hatto' moments, simply the music..

With Joyce you will seek vainly for ostentation, no grand 'Hatto' moments, simply the music...

On the one hand, he observed that the Dutch, as a rule, have little affection for ostentation or self-promotion.

Patrick Wolf is the most sincere of pop stars and that, combined with a reputation for ostentation, is perhaps what's put people off.

When Henry Royce and Charles Rolls first began manufacturing automobiles, they were not built to a high standard of craftmanship for ostentation's sake.

Stephenson's proclivity for ostentation irritated Evans.