Sentences with phrase «like ostentation»

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

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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.
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.
Making a watch at this size feel like it's meant to be big isn't easy — you have to draw a balance between intentional ostentation and refined constraint.
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