Sentence examples for to show wealth from inspiring English sources

But it has been unusual for Pyongyang's elite to show wealth so publicly.

Men used to buy furs for women to show their wealth.

His reluctance to show his wealth has a basis in his religion.

So I thought I was helping those who want to show their wealth.

Farmers believe the best way to show off wealth is to build high.

A bigger flaw is in Mr. Gibney's effort to show that wealth breeds callousness and misanthropy.

Pineapples were very exotic and so expensive that hostesses used them as centerpieces on their dinner tables to show their wealth.

This posture was cultivated to show off wealth, breeding, and authority, and to offset the physical closeness of cramped living quarters". The author is ambivalent about his subject.

So to add points of focus and mystery (and to show off wealth) many of the earlier gardens were also filled with cod-ancient monuments, often allegories for their owners' political allegiance.

"To those who can, it's a great, timeless way to show your wealth, but also an investment in a stable market which has hardly shifted in decades," Mr. Friedman said.

Of course not, he replied: one of the other oligarchs had got a bigger oil company than he did which goes to show that wealth alone does not prevent people from feeling hard done by.