Sentences with phrase «as ostentatious»

While many are still spacious, they're not quite as ostentatious, with owners opting for a more scaled - back but sophisticated look.

It's rare something as ostentatious as a giant indoor slide looks good with the decor, but this design nailed it.

As ostentatious as this mouse is, however, I've grown to like it over the past two weeks, because, well, it's actually a damn good mouse.

Not as obvious as leaves or as ostentatious as flowers, seeds are often overlooked in our appreciation of plant life.

Perhaps it's for the driver who wants it all, but doesn't want to look like they're driving something as ostentatious as hot hatch...

Leveraging the same proven platform as GM's other top body - on - frame SUVs, the 2016 GMC Yukon and Yukon XL provide more refinement than their Chevy counterparts, yet in a package that's not quite as ostentatious as that of the Cadillac Escalade.

His argument is too lengthy to quote in full, but he's decidedly a fan of Acting, not of Great Acting, defining the latter as ostentatious performances that encourage viewers to identify with the actor rather than the character.

I will strive for my daughter to grow up in a society where breastfeeding is perceived as the norm, where women breastfeeding in public aren't picked out as ostentatious, where feeding a child the way nature intended isn't only discussed in schools as part of sex education.

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But calling this a recovery might get you branded by Icelanders as «very 2007,» a term coined after the crash to describe an overly optimistic view or something ostentatious, like those Range Rovers.

And whoever leads the country should get there on their merits as a leader, not how many ostentatious public prayers they can give!

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As a young girl Caterina accompanied her father on state visits, turning heads everywhere they went with their ostentatious train.

The boomer generation, for example, embraces more traditional and ostentatious luxury cues, preferring imports and easy - to - identify mechanics, such as Johnnie Walkers» color - coded tiered system.

As damaging as Irvin's lifestyle choices had been to his image, he had turned off even more observers after his arrest with his flippant devotion to ostentatious behavioAs damaging as Irvin's lifestyle choices had been to his image, he had turned off even more observers after his arrest with his flippant devotion to ostentatious behavioas Irvin's lifestyle choices had been to his image, he had turned off even more observers after his arrest with his flippant devotion to ostentatious behavior.

From his roles in the Patricia Etteh saga culminating in the now notorious and ignoble image of Dino in his torn attire on the floor of the House; to his alleged threat to beat up a woman, a fellow senator and wife of former Lagos State Governor, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, to the controversial paternity issue with a known Nollywood actress; to his ostentatious display of personal wealth such as his expensive automobiles, to his certificate scandal and many more, what is it that Dino represents that should be the envy of the right - thinking?

Gordon Brown mocked him (6 July 1992) as having «absolute power over a department which has become absolutely powerless» and «the tiger that was once the king of the jungle is now just the fireside rug — decorative and ostentatious, but essentially there to be walked all over».

If you dress in an ostentatious manner as a daily habit, by all means use that in your photos.

Hence, ostentatious shows of wealth as displayed by some young men on their profiles will not entice them at all.

It's clear that Killer's Kiss requires a great deal of patience from the viewer, as much of the movie's first half suffers from the feel of a rather unimpressive student film - with director Stanley Kubrick exacerbating this feeling by suffusing the proceedings with needlessly ostentatious visual choices.

As Hitler's army invades Austria, Victor Kaufmann — the ostentatious son of a wealthy Jewish Viennese art dealer — is betrayed by lifelong friend Rudi Smekal, now a Third Reich stooge.

(1966) is fine (it's a catchy ditty), but Franco Nero's cameo is disappointingly perfunctory, as are the ostentatious midfilm intertitles that feel like the director reminding himself to be «playful» (see also Jackson's voiceover intrusions in Basterds).

It's rich material for satire, initially poking equal fun at the smugness of new parents, the ostentatious liberalism of reigning hipsters, principally represented by a brilliant Adam Driver, and the desperation of their predecessors as they rage against the dying of the light.

There's a great moment where Pellington kicks his office door after the studio shaves $ 2M from his budget, but he's such an ostentatious personality here it's difficult to muster sympathy for him as the bean counters close in.

Even so, Cameron Diaz, whose sleek, ostentatious attire and spotted tattoos evoke the same dangerous beauty of the pet cheetahs, with Malkina's desire to chase and devour dumber, slower people like little jackrabbits, plays the role in too obvious, conniving a way to ever see her as much more than an underhanded «Medea» from the get go.

Horror fans, broadly speaking, have come to regard conspicuous gimmicks and ostentatious high concepts with skepticism over the years, as filmmakers — and, more often still, shrewd producers — have exhausted every novelty of form or structure in a bid to seize upon the latest trend.

When Waltz uses a self - consciously ostentatious word like «ascertain» (as in, «I was simply trying to ascertain...» — the kind of verbiage QT is as likely to put in the mouth of a lowlife crook as a German dentist, or a Francophile plantation slavemaster, for that matter), it sounds right.

These films share a world of sleek surfaces and ostentatious style, fuelled as much by modish electronica and gauche fashion as their narratives» sine wave ripples between glacial inactivity and hard - hitting action.

But the condescension that a film about Florida made by a lifetime New Yorker could well have carried is hardly present, as Baker finds the beauty beneath the ostentatious veneers of central Florida, even as portions of the film satirize it in kind.

Carell's flashy, ostentatious performance is just the sort of thing Academy voters fawn over, and while his positioning in the lead category isn't as patently insane as Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, it's still a clear supporting role that ended up pushing out actors like Ralph Fiennes and David Oyelowo, both of whom were the actual leads of their respective films.

Carell's flashy, ostentatious performance is just the sort of thing Academy voters fawn over, and while his positioning in the lead category isn't as patently insane as Anthony Hopkins in

«Brandy Burre is Actress,» the surprisingly ostentatious (for nonfiction) title card announces, and so it goes: Burre stars as herself, a Master's - holding former supporting player from «The Wire» who took a break from acting after the birth of her first child, and who now seeks to get back in the game at a moment when her long - term relationship appears to be breaking apart like the dishware.

In fact, they are explicitly advised against doing so, and, for them, whatever lies beyond the main gate of their ostentatious property is a forbidden land of indescribable monsters, or, as they hilariously come to fear, nightmarish kitties.

Long before the Chevy 454SS and the Ford SVT F - 150 Lightning began their sport - truck performance battle, Dodge introduced the 1978 Li» l Red Express Truck, an ostentatious addition to its «adult toys» lineup (which did not, as the moniker implies, include marital aids).

While not as visually ostentatious as the BMW 5 - Series, the A6 and A6 Avant provide drivers and passengers with everything that is to be expected from a high - quality German vehicle.

As we said yesterday, the new BMW 8 Series — for the concept is very close to what will be a new 8 Series range in 2018 — is an impressive, cohesive coupe, almost ostentatious to look at but managing to look expensive rather than extravagant.

As they delve into the life of Esther's murdered husband, they discover that his ostentatious Puritanism hid a deeply sinister secret life, and that far too often tyranny and treason go hand in hand.

As part of identifying such an advisor, make sure there is a mutual understanding that an ostentatious lifestyle is not a valid financial goal.

One hypothesis that is gaining momentum is that dinosaurs, and the precursors to birds, may have used those feathers as many birds do today — as displays (think of the ostentatious color of a bluebird).

In «Dorothy Rogers» Decorating Lesson # 14» (1993), a seated woman, who has not taken off her ostentatious hat, coat, scarf, or put down her pocketbook, announces at the end of a long statement about her health («eyework» and «footwork») that: «On the other hand I can now truly love and live happily with such non-objective contemporaries as Jackson Pollack James Brooks Riopelle and Soulages»).

Themes such as alchemy and religion, symbols of power and wealth, the ostentatious and the sublime, are also of chief concern.

Public art, as inconspicuous or ostentatious it may be, has the power to engage a public (a cross section in a vast demographic) who may not otherwise seek out an interactive relationship with art.

This work can be interpreted in the simplest, most direct manner — as a stereotyped image of China's food culture and painting traditions, but at the same time, its multiple references to various Chinese social and historical backgrounds make interpretation much more difficult: the use of objects to express morality in Chinese landscaping, satirical poetry mocking ostentatious refinement, and the imitation of handwritten menus to capture a scene of civil life... Viewers unfamiliar with the specific context can easily find themselves lost in the smokescreen of mysterious Oriental poetic calligraphy and bonsai art.

I wish I could report that I was as impressed by the ostentatious talents reflected in Bartlett's work.

Winning acclaim in the 1960s, Chamberlain was known to reject critical or intellectual interpretations of his work as a metaphor for American values; instead, he insisted simply that his materials were cheap and available and that he was attracted to their ostentatious colors.

IN / SITU, the site - specific works installed around Navy Pier's Festival Hall curated by Shamim M. Momin, included some excellent work, like Andreas Lolis» marble «cardboard» boxes, though compared to ostentatious pieces like Dzine's La Perla and Jaume Plensa's Silent Music from last year, the IN / SITU program as a whole seemed a bit underwhelming.

As with the ostentatious two - day auction held at Sotheby's in 2008 at the height of the economic crisis, Hirst simply doesn't do modest.

«Considered as instruments of political power, ideological vehicles, demonstrations of ostentatious luxury and economic power, but also as incarnations of emotions and experiences, the historical archetypes of decorative arts consummately provide me with useful material.»

However, from the mid-century pronkstillevens («ostentatious still lifes»), which depicted expensive and exotic objects and had been developed as a subgenre in the 1640s in Antwerp by Flemish artists such as Frans Snyders and Adriaen van Utrecht, became more popular.

That the self - described «pointlessness» of re-staging an ostentatious Merlin Carpenter show is an obstacle to the Biennial's ability to subsume this exhibition and render it as «proof» of what Grabner calls its radically - expanded regionalism.

A FRIEND WHO goes to far more art fairs than I do once told me the atmosphere of Art Dubai was so gauche and ostentatious that it made the flash of Art Basel Miami Beach look as bookish as Documenta.