ostentation

How To Use ostentation In A Sentence

• He was totally without ostentation or pretension and totally disinterested in wealth, honours or managerial power.
• Dover, Delaware The house, overgrown with weeds and shrubbery, had no ostentation. MAMBO
• Ostentation, mediocrity, social conventions, members of the church, doctors, niggards and men of letters, among others, were objects of his strict observation and his corrosive critics.
• This lack of ostentation conveys a purity that is some-times as striking as the North African Qur’ans from the first centuries of Islam. Wind of Change
• Ovid's "Metamorphoses," translated by several hands; which he recommended by a preface, written with more ostentation than ability; his notions are half-formed, and his materials immethodically confused. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2
• Her luxurious lifestyle and personal ostentation were both hated and envied.
• Antiquity to angling is like social position to the gentleman:I would rather prove myself a gentleman, by being learned and humble, valiant and inoffensive, virtuous and communicable, than by any fond ostentation of riches, or, wanting those virtues myself, boast that these were in my ancestors; and yet I grant, that where a noble and ancient descent and such merit meet in any man, it is a double dignification of that person. . . The ideal of the gentleman
• It is clear that these costumes were worn as tokens of stately ostentation and to display the authority of the wearer.
• Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.
• About 35 serene green miles later, you're in Leiden, a university city girdled by canals and dominated by the gothic ostentation of its 15 th-century church.