Sentences with phrase «from ostentatious»

They're gunning for the demon lord, Mundus, who rules the city with a cohort of demons from his ostentatious tower of doom, located on doom street in district doom, just opposite Tesco.

My personal observation on the behavior of sanctimommies in their natural habitat is that they tend to suffer from overwhelmingly from ostentatious «sadness».

Not exact matches

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?

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...

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.

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.

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.

Brickman does a handful of a snazzy moves — some with editing, some with the narration, some with lighting and slowing down the film (nothing ostentatious, but certainly a little different from the rest of his approach)-- and the score tempers it.

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.

In TV Guide's exclusive clip from the finale, we find the two doctors canoodling in Bell's ostentatious apartment, with Hunter sporting one of his button - down shirts.

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.

The problem with the situation is that more times than not it leads to the type of film that Laurel Canyon is: ostentatious in structure, but in that way also a departure from the succinct character observations that brought the young artist the opportunity in the first place.

Other familiar faces from LOTR include, an ostentatious return from Orlando Bloom reprising the role of everybody's favourite Elven Prince, Legolas.

«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.

Almost ten years on from its introduction, the modern Dodge Challenger remains an impossibly ostentatious car.

It's pretty without being ostentatious, so you can safely pick your kids up at school without attracting sneers from other parents in line.

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.

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.

Differentiating the AMG model from the regular variant is the ostentatious 5.5 - litre; bi-turbo V8 engine tuned to produce 565 PS of power and a staggering 760 Nm of torque, which is mated to a 7 - speed automatic transmission.

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.

The farther you get from civilization, the less ostentatious and the more utilitarian each home is, but each had a character I liked.

While you may see some Austrian men bowing to kiss the hand of a lady this is considered ostentatious and is not expected from guests visiting Austria on holiday.

There isn't anything ostentatious about this villa; the chic simplicity ensures that nothing detracts from the incredible view.

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.

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.

It's the western hemisphere's biggest and most ostentatious art fair, and if you can get past the bling there are gems to be seen, many hailing from Latin America

From 1714 the new Hanoverian dynasty conducted a far less ostentatious court, and largely withdrew from patronage of the arts, other than the necessary portraFrom 1714 the new Hanoverian dynasty conducted a far less ostentatious court, and largely withdrew from patronage of the arts, other than the necessary portrafrom patronage of the arts, other than the necessary portraits.

Finally, if the aim is in fact to make the state neutral and secular, then the ostentatious crosses and Madonna niches should be removed from all government facilities, and Catholic prayers should not be part of provincial or municipal sittings and meetings.

The Tag Heuer Connected, meanwhile, will soon arrive in physical stores only in an excessively ostentatious solid rose gold variant, setting you back an exorbitant $ 9,900, up from the smartwatch's standard $ 1,500 MSRP, despite changing nothing about the original model's specifications and capabilities.

It sought to be ostentatious from the start.

As the homes in question will even entertain a tenancy they clearly wouldn't be under as urgent a pressure from buyer's as in less ostentatious surroundings.