Sentences with phrase «in ostentation»

The freakish prosperity of the eighties permitted all sorts of excess in terms of salaries for beginners, overstaffing cases, and even interior decoration — as law firms, like the nobles of San Gimignano, tried to outdo each other in ostentation.

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«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

We do this not so much by indulging in pious feelings, but by bearing the burdens of our life with simple fortitude and without ostentation.

I have already mentioned the Masses at St. Patrick's and at Yankee Stadium; liturgically abstemious and musically elevated, they were in striking contrast to the multicultural ostentation of the Mass at Nationals Park in Washington.

I have always found it very strange that these who call themselves successors of the apostles, I mean some poor men — preachers of humility and repentance — should possess great wealth, wallow in luxery, and fill posts more proper to satisfy the vanity of the age and the ostentation of the great than to occupy men who must meditate on the nothingness of human life and on the quest for salvation.

Ecclesiastical «emperors» may love to march in solemn assembly, but to most younger church members today's vestments suggest ostentation — which they have difficulty associating with Jesus.

This lack of ostentation and simplicity of spirit were things evident in Newman himself.

Also of significance are the Holiness witness against ostentation in life style, the concern for simplicity, and the affirmation of radical equality expressed in avoiding honorific titles in favor of «Mr.» or «Brother.»

He indulged in no magnificence of apparel, the ostentation of a petty mind; neither was his simplicity in dress affected but a result of real disregard for distinction from so trivial a source.

I don't like ostentation or waste nor do I hold with creating recipes that are exclusive or elitist in some fashion.

In the end, in the final victorious moments when party - goers behold and applaud the sheer spectacle of ostentation, before the first tortilla chip scars the field, a voice inside asks... Can we move iIn the end, in the final victorious moments when party - goers behold and applaud the sheer spectacle of ostentation, before the first tortilla chip scars the field, a voice inside asks... Can we move iin the final victorious moments when party - goers behold and applaud the sheer spectacle of ostentation, before the first tortilla chip scars the field, a voice inside asks... Can we move it?

It wouldn't be a Robert Zemeckis movie, though, without some degree of ostentation in his camerawork, and those moments all feel like major distractions, hindrances preventing audiences from connecting with the regrettably thin characters on hand.

It's the Sand Pebbles school of ostentation, such an anomaly in the early supernova of the New American Cinema as to be, despite its somewhat ambiguous resolution and cruel violence, an exact cast - fossil replica of David Lean's epic yawners.

It really is sweet in my humble opinion - and I always get some notice for the full 1 ounce of titanium it can't help but make an impression (not sure if it a good one or one of ostentation?)

Beyond ostentation, these tall beauties are easygoing and capable of staying put for many hours in the position in which they were placed.

With many of the rooms decorated in Neo-Shanghai style, the Bougainvillier straddles a slightly uncomfortable place between taste and ostentation, but we think it pulls it off.

If you can find a house within walking distance of the beach, you're in beach holiday heaven, because Cape St Francis manages to avoid the ostentation of St Francis Bay whilst retaining its emphasis on white sand, historic lighthouse and plenty of nature reserve.

Instead of exaggerated fanfare and overrated ostentation, each arrival in Bali Lovina Beach Cottages is sheltered under shading tropical greeneries and ushered by courteous staff to the simple lobby.

For all it's paucity of RPG ostentation and operatic melodrama, Shining In The Darkness comes through where it counts: an approachable and entertaining combat system and a detailed variety of bad guys to hack through on your way to the ultimate confrontation with the proverbial darkness.

It has driven us across stormy seas and mountains; for the Cup of Gold; and rewarded us with the hollow, pyrrhic victories of ostentation and pretence, rewarded us with the complexities of paranoia, troubled legacies, dynasties of paper, minarets that climb heavenward unto the raging storm... I seek bold buccaneers with ice in their veins and fire in their hearts!

In 2003 she indeed showed alongside a Young British Artist, who shared her ostentation.

I could see nothing in this work to justify the ostentation of its display, nothing to vindicate my own theoretical claims.

It is all so personal and also beautiful and functional all at the same time without ostentation, which is pretty rare these days in the ceramic community.

«Where art is a clamor and rife with ostentation and ribaldry, and every other painter is grasping for the brass ring,» wrote Art News, «Tworkov's meditative art shows that he has climbed off the merry - go - round and doesn't believe in the free ride.»

It's not fake - Rolex levels of low - brow ostentation, but it's in the ballpark.

Some consider it an eyesore, but for me, that notch screams the phone's ostentation in a deeply satisfying way.