Sentences with phrase «by ostentatious»

But we'd like to think Lawrence, who is revered for her down - to - earth attitude, simply chose it because the house, while sprawling, still has a comfortable and lived - in vibe — by ostentatious Los Angeles standards anyway.

The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies.

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

However, it's delivered with such bombastic authority, that it's hard to not be hooked in by its ostentatious approach.

The result is, by far, Scott's best effort in a prolific decade littered with big - budget epics and franchise installments (the latest in his prequel trilogy Alien: Covenant opened only six months prior), bolstered by some ostentatious performances which tap into the heightened pulp fodder of both the era and the event.

Since this out - of - court settlement implies some guilt (probably 100 % guilt), this «man», who preyed upon young men, who were taken in by his ostentatious lifestyle and his aura of power, were purchased for a price.

Not exact matches

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.

An obsessive - compulsive Bible student began attending a certain church and immediately made himself unpopular by dominating every discussion with an ostentatious display of knowledge.

In the early years at the Emirates, he would respond to difficult periods in matches by making ostentatious, clumsy tackles, risking injury to both himself and rivals.

We have become too enamoured of the ostentatious life of the new globalised man epitomised by the rapper and megabuck sports celebrity.

The ostentatious and indiscriminate attacks by Trump on liberal values are therefore completely predictable and necessary for his strategy to work.

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.

By his own admission, the musician «was always a kind of ostentatious bastard,» and that whole persona bears out across the doc.

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.

By striking the right level of low - brow comedy, they avoid the ostentatious vulgarity of other entries in this genre.

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.

And while Allen had already tread this territory before, most notably with Interiors (1978) and Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), the latter a masterpiece with a nice tonal balance — the comedy retained by Allen himself in a starring role — these ostentatious, upper - crust types could seem miles away from Allen's hapless fools or quixotic romantics.

By contrast, Scorsese does not play to his movie's generic conventions but against them: this is not a rousing, Hollywood - crafted, Biblical epic with blaring horns and ostentatious «Scope compositions.

Lynch's film is an alternately humbling and hilarious experience, predominantly driven by dialogue, and monologue, but never in a way that's ostentatious or overdone.

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.

In fact, Dennaton's ostentatious and uber violent puzzle shooter features heavily in Crimewave Edition by virtue of the Hotline Miami DLC - including a shamelessly brutal and bastard - hard mission inspired by its hedonistic source material.

There was this kind of naïve attitude that they could use the film to break the Blacklist by not hiding behind pseudonyms, and by being very ostentatious; Edward Dmytryk gets above - the - title credit - this was «Edward Dmytryk's film - and they were really being very open about it.

The lack of ostentatious chrome embellishment is an intentional move by Buick, courting the buyer who prefers a modest display of success and leaving the bling to Cadillac.

The new Bentley promised to epitomize the very spirit of Bentley motoring by offering ample performance combined with complete comfort - enjoyed definitely less ostentatious than on board the stable companions with their square radiators.

The 2014 Lamborghini Aventador is the latest in a long line of automobiles from the Italian motorworks that leverages the traction advantage offered by all - wheel drive in order to manage the ostentatious output of its over-sized engine.

Mega Evolutions, brought to life by fantastically ostentatious Digimon-esque animations, provide temporary stat boosts (though this is never really discussed in the game), while Super Training allows for the easy boosting of specific stats.

In fact, listening to his monotonous drawl and catching glimpses of him sitting in his ostentatious gold and purple throne surrounded by female dancers may have actually given me an edge in combat.

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.

At NOMA, the artist orchestrated an ostentatious second line — flashy by even the peacockiest of local standards — led by a custom - designed Lamborghini Murciélago, that included vogueing dancers, Mardi Gras Indians in full mask, and the Eleanor McMain Secondary School marching band.

The result is finished in an ostentatious cadmium red — a colour favoured by Judd.

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.

Perhaps most ostentatious of all, each exhibition has been organized by a longtime top curator at the Museum of Modern Art, now working independently: John Elderfield (the painting show) and Peter Galassi (photographs).

This event appears to have been recorded in a photo posted by White Helmets at 1:41 a.m., showing the baby in purple sweater being carried by a White Helmet in an ostentatious gas mask, donned for the photo, but not worn by videographers and companions in their explorations of the apartments.

As I am certain you definitely know, they will cost you a lot less that the stuff sold by bombastic ladies wearing pounds of ostentatious make - up.

But Jia's ostentatious vision Jia for Faraday wasn't universally welcomed by insiders and observers alike.