Sentences with phrase «less ostentatious»

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.

With each subsequent release the goals got a bit less ambitious, the marketing became less ostentatious, and the phones consistently improved.

The Sony is less ostentatious but equally well finished.

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

A few gated communities are also going up in the area — closer to Quepos than to Manuel Antonio proper — that will suit those looking for something less ostentatious.

Also, using less ostentatious page numbers will keep your reader's attention on the words and also require less ink while printing.

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

The front seat becomes unusable when this feature is fully utilized, but it does let Audi offer a Maybach - like luxury feature in a slightly less ostentatious package.

Aston Martin Racing Team sweatshirt ($ 88 — $ 136) Somehow wearing Aston Martin apparel is far less ostentatious than Ferrari clothing, so it's ok — you can pull this off.

Aesthetic changes include a less ostentatious nose bump and a lower fascia made busy with more vents.

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.

Accoutrements and switchgear are less ostentatious than its upscale sibling, but still attractive in that simple, only - the - facts - ma» am motif that Teutonic designers love.

The taillamps are still broad eclipses, but their illuminated ring - within - a-ring structure is far less ostentatious than the lighting on the old car.

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.

The Weinstein campaign machine thrust these movies into the center of the conversation so loudly they elbowed out other, less ostentatious works that had no shot at winning Oscars the next day.

May is more reserved and less ostentatious than Blair and Cameron.

Not exact matches

▶ 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»).

Despite its gruesome scenes of hundreds of Chinese prisoners of war being lined up and executed and its ostentatious shots of severed heads, the movie is less than indelible.

Alienware's usual multi-zone lighting effects let you customize RGB lighting in nine areas over most of the Area - 51's surfaces, and the overall effect is less gaudy and ostentatious than the MSI Aegis Ti3.

Ok, maybe Tracey Emin's drunken interview on TV (which wasn't one of her works), or Madonna's ostentatious swearing (she wasn't one of the artists) or Martin Creed's lights going on and off (which is kind of the opposite of publicity - grabbing) may be what's being alluded to, but it's hard to see that the current nominees are any more or less avant - garde or shocking or experimental or whatever than in any previous years.

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.

(c) There is no evidence that public servants who wear discreet symbols (rather than ostentatious ones) of their religion are less likely to discriminate as above.