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Jopling had turned the paper warehouse into a temple of ostentatious reserve: white walls, lacquered concrete floors.
It was too ostentatious for some; one investor, Aneel Bhusri, turned his limo away and drove himself.
Judging from the press release, it almost turned out like Gwen Stefani's Love Angel Music Baby, a shallow, ostentatious, something-for-everyone patchwork with more star cameos than a Robert Altman movie.
It was too ostentatious for some; one investor, Aneel Bhusri, turned his limo around himself and drove away.
The public were questioning the grandiosity of RBS's ambition long before they worried about its financial soundness, and an ostentatious Edinburgh headquarters suggested hubris – rightly, as it turned out.
That Thailand's former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, now resides in Dubai, a city of ostentatious, idle wealth, seems apt for a telecoms tycoon turned fugitive politician.
Van Den Berg's previous collection of stories, The Isle of Youth, won praise for the way in which characters' emotional lives overshadowed its ostentatious conceits (honeymooners crash-landed in Patagonia; twin sisters turned gum-shoe detectives).
This ostentatious technology turns holiday snaps into a kind of performance art.
She is among those turning their backs on ostentatious styling, and especially on the owlishly super-size frames popularized a few years back by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, in favor of scaled-down rectangles in bi-colored plastic, imitation tortoise shell, wood, titanium or even gold.
The ostentatious announcements of leave-taking ("I'm #digitaldetoxing for a few days, so you won't see any tweets from me!" "Leaving Facebook for a while to be in the world!") are inevitably followed by vainglorious returns, excited exclamations having turned into desperate questions ("Sorry to be away from Twitter. #Digitaldetox for three WHOLE days. Miss me?" "Back online. What did I miss?").
