Sentence examples for unseemly display from inspiring English sources

This unseemly display of emotion might be forgiven the stiff-spined Scarpetta -- whose paranoia really kicks in when she is inexplicably charged with murder -- had not Cornwell felt compelled to rewrite the plots of two previous books in order to justify her beleaguered heroine's decision to get out of town.

"It was an unseemly display, but out of that has come clarity.

After an unseemly display of indifference and buck-passing, the international community is at last starting to treat the symptoms: saving refugee lives and finding permanent homes for them.

Such unseemly displays of consumption are well-known opportunities for bribery.

Tomoyo's love for Sakura is hardly the original show's only display of unseemly affection, either.

Gleeson noted that Lynch rarely conducted news conferences, which reflected another stereotype — that the U.S. Attorneys in the Southern District display an unseemly thirst for the spotlight, which is indulged by the press.

Given their reputation for prudery, the Victorians displayed almost unseemly interest in the nude.

And yet none of these men could accept that any unseemly misogyny had been on display.

She displays unhesitantly the somewhat unseemly and almost inadmissible principle on which a great person's ability to make great decisions depends: power.

All one can do is make a choice between trying to hide them, like the unseemly legacy of a lost war, or displaying them proudly like the scars of a battle still being fought.

In a country where displays of wealth are considered unseemly, Mr. Homm posed for photographs in front of his palatial villa on the Mediterranean island of Majorca, Cuban cigar in hand, and used his millions to shake up one of the country's most sacred institutions, the Borussia Dortmund soccer team.