Sentences with phrase «for ostentatious»

He later called these works, mostly portraits, une couillarde («a coarse word for ostentatious virility»).

Many of us remember sitting cross-legged, far too close to the television watching cars, planes and helicopters transforming into robot behemoths, with a penchant for ostentatious wrestling.

Although the stoic nature of her character effectively mutes any need for ostentatious displays of emotions, Carano's imposing physical build, looks, and dynamic fighting style does make up for the lack of nuance in her character, such that it creates that certain mystique that many quiet - but - deadly action stars like Clint Eastwood benefit from.

Moscow's 2007 stunt was mocked widely for its ostentatious flouting of diplomatic etiquette but had its intended effect: other countries were rattled.

▶ Rudyard Kipling prize for ostentatious knowledge of pavement politics in the Hindu Kush Ed Davey MP for being able to name six Afghan warlords and how much it would cost to buy them all off («$ 30m a month — far less than the cost of fighting»).

Not exact matches

• Aluminum lid is handsome but not ostentatious; carbon fiber interior gives a soft resting spot for hands

Seems a rather ostentatious car for someone who took a vow of poverty.

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.

Solomon was ambitious for the kingdom — of Solomon; and relative to anything ever known in Israel, at least, his public works» program was incredibly lavish and, no doubt to the discerning, ostentatious and pretentious.

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.

This is to be enjoyed with a weather eye on the horizon for inflatable alcohol industry Nazis, judgemental washed up neo-prohibitionists or any grandiloquent, ostentatious foxes.»

Lesson of the story: you can get any player u want (aside messi n ronaldo) if u are willing to pay ostentatious for them n give em an unrejectable wage.

To pay 60 -70 M for someone who has at most 3 — 4 years left playing at the top of his game would be ostentatious.

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.

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

His ostentatious disregard for the sensitivities of various religious and ethnic groups has hit a nerve among Jewish organizations.

The French are the opposite of ostentatious when it comes to labels — look for a well made, timeless piece that doesn't have a large logo letting everyone know how expensive it was.

I think often, people get too caught up at the thought of paying an extravagant amount for luxury items and yet even with money you could very well end up looking tacky and ostentatious.

Willard Lanham convicted of stealing $ 1.7 m from... — New York city worker who stole $ 1.7 m from schools pleads for leniency blaming cougar ex-wife's «highly ostentatious mid-life crisis, that includes dating men in their...

Dubey turns out to be sweet and intensely romantic, and the contrast between the ostentatious display he designs for the Vermas and the much smaller, much more intimate one he creates just for Alice is beautifully rendered.

When Calvin Candy's servant explains his role in maintaining the estate, Django replies that the white man is «almost like a nigger,» a bold remark punctuated with one of several ostentatious zooms lifted from the spaghetti western vernacular — allowing for yet another moment of unlikely humor.

Writer / director Welles does not appear on camera, but his voiceover narration superbly sets the stage for the movie's action, which fades in valentine fashion on Amberson Mansion, the most ostentatious dwelling in all of turn - of - century Indianapolis.

The Lone Ranger is undeniably fun in spurts (and features unexplained, offbeat elements like mad cannibal rabbits and a cross-dressing henchman), but it's also another example of its maker's wild propensity for indulgence, clocking in at 149 minutes and featuring its share of ostentatious flourishes, like a joke of a transition that sees a desert scene become a ripply glass of drug - spiked water.

Though the movie retains an intelligence and good grip on viewer attention, Bahrani's film does deflate a bit with an ostentatious climax that goes for overreaching melodrama in which guns come into play.

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.

After a stint in prison for killing a man in something resembling self - defense, Sailor picks Lula up in his ostentatious»50s convertible, and they head for California, breaking his parole in search of a more sensational life.

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.

Director John Cameron Mitchell surprisingly stays out of the way, reining in his ostentatious style for a locked - down approach that showcases the actors and keeps the focus on the text of David Lindsay - Abaire's adaptation of his own play.

In the third act, the villain, out of desire to destroy or conquer the Earth, builds a doomsday machine that fires an ostentatious beam of white or blue energy into the sky for all to see.

After a world premiere at the 2016 Melbourne international film festival, the film's theatrical release arrives not long after Ben Young's ostentatious, soul - sucking debut Hounds of Love, making this a vintage year for hotshot homegrown spooksters.

Her performance is the least ostentatious thing to ever grace a Tom Hooper film (nearly good enough to make us forgive the filmmaker for his inert «Les Miserables «-RRB-.

«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.

The A-Class was criticized for its poor packaging and the harsh ride, the B - Class for its bland design, the CLA - Class for being over-styled, the facelifted E-Class for not righting enough of the wrongs, and the new S - Class for courting ostentatious luxury.

If the standard AMG body kit and interior accoutrements are not ostentatious enough for you, you may choose an optional Performance Package, which not only injects an additional 32 hp and 44 pound - feet of torque, but also buys the carbon fiber engine cover, special steering wheel, and red - painted calipers our test vehicle sported.

Neither this nor the Bentley or Lamborghini versions are anywhere near ostentatious enough for me, dahlings.

But for millions of people around the world, an appliance is exactly what they want in a car — something they don't have to think about to use, that isn't quirky or ostentatious, that's reliable and simple.

It's perhaps the most ostentatious car in our stable, and it's clearly going to be one of the top choices for attending class reunions and occasions that require a sparkling first impression.

Because of this, they never made the journey from Toyko to Norfolk to green - light Peter Stevens» less ostentatious but more aerodynamic proposal for the post - «bugeye» facelift.

We're not quite sure what — although the orange paint is admittedly ostentatious — but there's some not - so - subtle disdain for our brand - new Four Seasons car.

When ostentatious cruising is called for, look no further than Rolls - Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe.

Los Angeles sees more than its fair share of exotic and ostentatious cars, so I was surprised when a bystander called out the 2015 Cadillac ATS Coupe for its looks.

If you want the most ostentatious Sorento, get the fully loaded SX + AWD V6 for $ 46,695.

For now, the new S 600 is the top of the range S Class, but Mercedes are planning on stretching the S600 further still, adding more ostentatious toys and sticking a Maybach badge on the boot, to create the ultimate S Class.

The most controversial part of the styling is, of course, that slanted rear roof, the most notable difference between this and the virtually identical X5 M. It's a willful disposal of cargo space, an almost ostentatious shunning of usability strictly for the sake of statement.

Cadillac buyers like the fact that their keys are electroplated with 23 - karat gold, says Steve Garrity, a marketing research director for Cadillac, but people who drive luxury imports think that's ostentatious.

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.

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...

Though the ostentatious aesthetic will attract those looking for a 4 - series fighter, the RC's softer edged performance is more akin to that of the more laid - back Benz C - Class Coupe.