How To Use Ostentation In A Sentence
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Unusually for a hotel of such quality, Pool House is run almost entirely by the charming owner family, and without a hint of ostentation.
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Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation.
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Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation.
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You'll see a painted winder there which that 'Umpage got put up to his aunt -- that's his ostentation, that is.
The Giant's Robe
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His dream project is a monumental display of force and ostentation that has precious little value as a piece of drama or popular history.
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For further evidence, tour the purlieus of your state Capitol, contrasting the vulgar ostentation on the marbled side of the street with the squalid reality on the living side.
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John Calvin's faith offers predestined salvation for a lucky few and requires adherents to work hard and shun ostentation.
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I found him kind and benignant in the domestic circle, revered and beloved by all around him, agreeably social, without ostentation.
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The pomposity and ostentation of the rich seems to heighten the sense of our ultimate worthlessness.
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Wildside Siding $3 per square foot; wild side camo. com For those who still have money to spend, ostentation is out.
The Best New Gun Gear at the 2009 SHOT Show
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Apparently, the steward of the combined household, John Shelton, insisted that Elizabeth preside over the main meal "euery day at the bord of astate" (board of estate or high table) .141 Bryan understood that, in this case, the politics of ostentation might be harmful to the three-year-old Elizabeth, who would be unable to resist the "dyvers metes" and other rich foods laid out in the great hall.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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Pensioned by the British Government, which permitted him to continue this absurd travesty, if his feeble exasperation over his predicament and his silly ostentations could be called by that name, this realmless potentate occupied his waking hours in futile revilings of the hand that at once smote and sustained him.
The Flaw in the Sapphire
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About 35 serene green miles later, you're in Leiden, a university city girdled by canals and dominated by the gothic ostentation of its 15th century church.
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But they had to be careful not to show their wealth with too much ostentation.
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He was totally without ostentation or pretension and totally disinterested in wealth, honours or managerial power.
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Cerastes serpens dictus, eo quod in capite cornua habeat similia arietum; KERATA enim Graeci cornua vocant: sunt autem illi quadrigemina cornicula, quorum ostentatione, veluti esca, inlice sollicitata animalia perimit.
Sigh. WMAM.
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I found a feeling of sincere companionship ... a companionship that without ostentation and as a matter of course, shared the last cent the last meal ... when every cent _was_ the last cent, every meal the _last_ meal ... the rest depending on luck and
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative
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He then undertook an edition of 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.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
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And the motive on the part of the slave-owners was the love of gold; or, to speak more truly, of vulgar and puerile ostentation.
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It is clear that these costumes were worn as tokens of stately ostentation and to display the authority of the wearer.
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By the beginning of the twentieth century the representative symbols of luxury and ostentation had come full circle.
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Gentleman, by being learned and humble, valiant and inoffensive, vertuous and communicable, then by a fond ostentation of riches; or (wanting these Vertues my self) boast that these were in my Ancestors; [And yet I confesse, that where a noble and ancient Descent and such Merits meet in any man, it is a double dignification of that person:] and so, if this
The Compleat Angler
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Ostentation and revelry were ceased, for the sake of separation.
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On the whole she had lived modestly, with a notable lack of ostentation.
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We stopped to take the hand of every caboceer, (which, as their household suites occupied several spaces in advance, delayed us long enough to distinguish some of the ornaments in the general blaze of splendour and ostentation).
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
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I don't like the ostentation of their expensive life - style.
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they lived meanly and without ostentation
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A quiet mystery man who exudes wisdom without ostentation, Kerr started his career as professor at UC Berkeley, became chancellor of Berkeley, and finally president of the whole UC system.
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Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation.
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Complaining about this kind of ostentation, and this evidence of conspicuous consumption, of course makes one sound like Scrooge.
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But he showed none of the ostentation of a self-consciously rich young man.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Her lifestyle was remarkably free from ostentation.
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I walked in without anyone noticing and was surprised by how low-key it was - nice hardwood floors and the distinct lack of ostentation at which WASPs excel.
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Lastly, his dress is plain, without singularity, -- with no other ornament than the quill, which is the badge of his function, stuck behind the dexter ear, and this rather for convenience of having it at hand, when he hath been called away from his desk, and expecteth to resume his seat there again shortly, than from any delight which he taketh in foppery or ostentation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
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Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation.
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She gave much time to them and thought; visited from house to house, without ostentation; was awestricken by that spectacle of the poverty which we have with us always, of which the sight rebukes our selfish griefs into silence, the thought compels us to charity, humility, and devotion.
The Newcomes
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Perhaps through such long experience, the hotel somehow manages to both reek of exclusivity and wealth while dodging gaudy ostentation.
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In the have and have-not society of golden-age Athens, wallowing in luxury and public ostentation became a pivot for societal change, as the statesman Pericles suggested such showiness was ultimately not worthy of the Greeks, and altogether more a Persian way of carrying on.
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Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation.
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He also shunned ostentation, and his increasing wealth was not reflected in the increasing size and cost of his cars; he drove a modest BMW.
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Other points of view opened in succession; now a full one, of the front of the old castle, and now a side glimpse at its particular towers; the former rich in all the bizarrerie of the Elizabethan school, while the simple arid solid strength of other parts of the building seemed to show that they had been raised more for defence than ostentation.
The Tapestried Chamber
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And yet, from the blindness or inconsiderate examination of his critics, this latent wisdom -- this cryptical science of poetic effects -- in the mighty poet, has been misinterpreted, and set down to the account of defective skill, or even of puerile ostentation.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2
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Another simile comes to mind when thinking about the comparison: The haiku were slim, efficient tidy bodies — healthy, lacking in ostentation and self-assured about themselves.
And What of the Haiku? : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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The kind of ostentation which is criminal, and criminal only because it is fraudulent, is where a person makes a show of giving when in reality he does not give.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)
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I don't like the ostentation of their expensive life - style.
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Stylish Mike doesn't like it if you suggest that his enthusiasms are all about ostentation and conspicuous consumption.
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Perhaps through such long experience, the hotel somehow manages to both reek of exclusivity and wealth while dodging gaudy ostentation.
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Laurence's trademark flair for ostentation comes out in his interior designs and his clothes - and he insists he is just the same away from the TV cameras.
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The house was spacious but without any trace of ostentation.
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One should also learn to avoid non-divine traits as ostentation, arrogance, self-conceit, anger, pride and excessive attachment to worldly possessions.
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Dover, Delaware The house, overgrown with weeds and shrubbery, had no ostentation.
MAMBO
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A space of ground large enough to accommodate perhaps thirty tents according to the Crusaders 'rules of castrametation, was partly vacant --- because, in ostentation, the knight had demanded ground to the extent of his original retinue --- partly occupied by
The Talisman
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After all, ostentation and luxury do not translate into a truly modern city.
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These are either altogether superfluous, mere badges of ostentation and luxurious wealth, or they point to some fifth function not so much as contemplated by other universities, and, at present, absolutely and chimerically beyond their means of attainment.
Memorials and Other Papers — Complete
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And may'st thou, stranger to ostentation, and superior to insolence, with true greatness of soul shine forth conspicuous only in beneficence!
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
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But he showed none of the ostentation of a self-consciously rich young man.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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'Well,' he said,'Clifford's people don't like a lot of ostentation.
MR STARLIGHT
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Of this kind of ostentation I very soon had a slight proof.
A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America
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Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation.
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Cerastes serpens dictus, eo quod in capite cornua habeat similia arietum; KERATA enim Graeci cornua vocant: sunt autem illi quadrigemina cornicula, quorum ostentatione, veluti esca, inlice sollicitata animalia perimit.
Archive 2008-06-01
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Gabel cues with care but without ostentation, he addresses sections of the orchestra and he stays with them.
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She didn't like showiness or ostentation.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.
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It is clear that these costumes were worn as tokens of stately ostentation and to display the authority of the wearer.
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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
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Her luxurious lifestyle and personal ostentation were both hated and envied.
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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
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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
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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.
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Dover, Delaware The house, overgrown with weeds and shrubbery, had no ostentation.
MAMBO
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We see spices as a luxury for a medieval kings ostentation, as a mummys deodorant, as the last word in haute cuisine.
Spice: Summary and book reviews of Spice by Jack Turner.
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But now, the first lines have been built, and they make a modest, decent contribution to the city, adding, without flash or ostentation, a literally new dimension.
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He smoked innumerable scented cigarettes, gold as to tip and monogram, which he selected with ostentatious unostentation from a heavy gold case liberally bestudded with rubies and diamonds.
The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
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No longer were social parties the old heraldic solemnities [Footnote 4] enjoined by red letters in the almanac, in which the chief objects were to discharge some arrear of ceremonious debt, or to ventilate old velvets, or to _apricate_ and refresh old gouty systems and old traditions of feudal ostentation, which both alike suffered and grew smoke-dried under too rigorous a seclusion.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2
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A person who was present gives the following account of Somers's opening speech: "In the opening the evidence, there was no affected exaggeration of matters, nor ostentation of a putid eloquence, one after another, as in former trials, like so many geese cackling in a row.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4
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But his dominance, like Smiley's, arises from a quiet natural authority that disdains the tasteless excesses of ostentation and histrionics.
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We like the absence of previous waggish excess and ostentation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cerastes serpens dictus, eo quod in capite cornua habeat similia arietum; KERATA enim Graeci cornua vocant: sunt autem illi quadrigemina cornicula, quorum ostentatione, veluti esca, inlice sollicitata animalia perimit.
Archive 2008-06-01
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I would also observe that it is not publicity, but ostentation, which is prohibited; not the mode, but the motive of the action, which is regulated.
Evidence of Christianity
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It was a time not only of heroic inequality but of incredible ostentation.
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'Well,' he said,'Clifford's people don't like a lot of ostentation.
MR STARLIGHT
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As for the painters who commanded these extraordinary prices, they rivalled each other in ostentation and vanity.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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He was totally without ostentation or pretension and totally disinterested in wealth, honours or managerial power.
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Sunt aut illi quadrigemina cornicula quorum ostentatione, ueluti esca illiciens sollicitat et animalia perimit.
Sigh. WMAM.
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But it was not to be avoided: he made her feel that she was the object of all; though she could not say that it was unpleasantly done, that there was indelicacy or ostentation in his manner; and sometimes, when he talked of William, he was really not unagreeable, and shewed even a warmth of heart which did him credit.
Mansfield Park
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The dandy rejected ostentation in favor of clean lines, somber materials and colors, impeccable cut, and perfect fit.
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This, by some, may be called ostentation -- be it so; it was the way in which I discovered my pride; and I trust, at all events, that it was equally laudable with the generous boon of our reverend doctor and justice, of the "_Old Alderney Cow_.
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2
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The exhibits have been divided into six categories namely ostentation, quiet refinement, crispness, fine detail, deformation and flowers and birds.
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He led toward the back of the house, introducing Lanyard to a spacious apartment, a library uncommonly well furnished, rather more than comfortably yet without a trace of ostentation in its complete luxury, a warm room, a room intimately lived in, a room, in short, characteristically
The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf
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Their daughter's wedding reception was sheer ostentation.
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For the next few days a deplorable kind of ostentation seemed to possess the Jews.
The Complete Stories
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Seeking to flee worldly pursuits by locating their monasteries within remote valleys, the Cistercians emphasized simplified ritual and inner meditation rather than outward ostentation.
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Spanish tiling, pastel shades and walls partly of exposed stone and partly of wood panels create a stylish ambience without a hint of ostentation.