Sentences with phrase «more ostentatious»

It doesn't feel as comfortable as the BirdRock Home, and it looks far more ostentatious.

They're more ostentatious, offering aesthetic panache to go with their exquisite performance, and are designed for pleasure listening with just the slightest touch of extra bass to sweeten their sound.

(No doubt many were surprised when Ms. Abts, who was born in Germany in 1967 and lives in London, won the 2006 Turner Prize, which usually goes to more ostentatious kinds of art.)

Bladen had a real enough influence, however, and the more ostentatious he gets, the more fun.

The environmentally conscious set can check out the Panto microcar, while those looking to roll with their Crew in more ostentatious style can add the massive 3 - axel, 6 - seater Dubsta to their fleet.

Or if you're into something even more ostentatious, leap out and glide down on a wingsuit.

And yet, amid this scene of utter devastation, he took pride in the fact that his cheeses were putting on a far more ostentatious display than all the other burning buildings.

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 Mini Cooper S JCW (John Cooper Works edition) represents the absolute best of what Mini has to offer, taking advantage of the extra power and a more ostentatious design over the standard car.

However, if you have your eyes on a more ostentatious luxury vehicle, may we suggest the Mercedes - Benz S350 BlueTec perhaps?

Not exact matches

While everyone expects more old - school retailers to acquire their way into e-commerce capabilities and market share, I'm skeptical the publicly traded ones can afford — appearance-wise — to write checks that ostentatious.

One argued his firm's party was more austere than in prior years, and that festive Instagram photos with ostentatious hashtags misrepresented it.

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.

A 10 % tip means you're a happy customer; more than that can be ostentatious.)

As damaging as Irvin's lifestyle choices had been to his image, he had turned off even more observers after his arrest with his flippant devotion to ostentatious behavior.

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?

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

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.

No one exemplifies the ostentatious nature of the Capitol residents better than Elizabeth Banks» Effie Trinket, the District 12 liaison who wears more makeup than a concubine.

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.

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.

Anderson's second film is the one that him on the map, with endlessly quotable lines and Jason Schwartzman's ostentatious Max Fischer high schooler easily one of the more memorable characters in recent years.

Like Mendl's chocolates so often on display in The Grand Budapest Hotel, everything is elaborately packaged and constructed out of tastefully ostentatious pastel, and contains far more empty calories than actual nourishment, but no matter, they are «the finest.»

Horror fans, broadly speaking, have come to regard conspicuous gimmicks and ostentatious high concepts with skepticism over the years, as filmmakers — and, more often still, shrewd producers — have exhausted every novelty of form or structure in a bid to seize upon the latest trend.

He isn't boring, doing more than shot reverse shot coverage in his dialogue scenes, but he isn't overly ostentatious either.

That «sense» of acceleration is ostentatious once again, with perhaps a skosh more camera jostle in high intensity moments.

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.

The wild hairstyles and costumes of the capital have been replaced with a sea of grey jumpsuits (none take this harder than Elizabeth Banks» ostentatious Effy Trinket) and much of the action is more in the style of heated board room arguments than firefights.

It's an important theme, but also one which is delivered in too ostentatious a fashion, so much so that freeze frames and pointing arrows anytime an «important theme» prop occurred would not have made it any more obvious.

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.

Although the 300 is essentially a Dodge Charger with different sheetmetal, the more elegant exterior design makes it appealing to a larger audience than the ostentatious Charger.»

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.

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

Leveraging the same proven platform as GM's other top body - on - frame SUVs, the 2016 GMC Yukon and Yukon XL provide more refinement than their Chevy counterparts, yet in a package that's not quite as ostentatious as that of the Cadillac Escalade.

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.

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

But though the ostentatious orange paint will attract the attention of those looking for a 4 - series fighter, its softer edged feel is more akin to the C - Class Coupe.

Although Abu Dhabi lacks the glitz and glamour of its ostentatious neighbor, it is a more cultural city that has well preserved its heritage in the face of modernization and urban development.

When gamers first saw Ridge Racer on the Sony PSP they gasped in wonder — a true console experience on the go — but it turned out that not many people wanted that; not just because PSP was more expensive, but because (to a lot of people) it just felt weird to sit on a bus with this ostentatious piece of cold, sleek gaming technology.

In keeping with the somewhat ostentatious title, Modern Warfare 3 features a far greater, more encompassing story, with multiple countries involved in a worldwide conflict verging on WW3.

This work can be interpreted in the simplest, most direct manner — as a stereotyped image of China's food culture and painting traditions, but at the same time, its multiple references to various Chinese social and historical backgrounds make interpretation much more difficult: the use of objects to express morality in Chinese landscaping, satirical poetry mocking ostentatious refinement, and the imitation of handwritten menus to capture a scene of civil life... Viewers unfamiliar with the specific context can easily find themselves lost in the smokescreen of mysterious Oriental poetic calligraphy and bonsai art.

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.

A FRIEND WHO goes to far more art fairs than I do once told me the atmosphere of Art Dubai was so gauche and ostentatious that it made the flash of Art Basel Miami Beach look as bookish as Documenta.

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.

The close proximity of such ostentatious wealth makes it all the more refreshing to see Jeremy Deller, the artist chosen to represent Britain at the Biennale, pack such a political punch.

And generally, once you've actually accumulated the money necessary to afford such things, you start to value other things more than the ostentatious display.

«Even people who had more disposable income 20 years ago weren't inclined to be ostentatious,» Nolon said.

(d) It is arguable that public servants are more likely to discriminate on the basis of religion against recipients of their service who themselves are wearing symbols (ostentatious or not) of their religious beliefs.

We think the Spectre x360 is simply a more stunning notebook that manages to be elegant and luxurious without being ostentatious.

While many are still spacious, they're not quite as ostentatious, with owners opting for a more scaled - back but sophisticated look.