Sentences with phrase «of ostentation»

Cap Rocat is all about simple luxury, identity and a complete lack of ostentation.

This rhetoric has however been undermined by a naked show of ostentation and a money - guzzling approach to governance.

Very quiet, not a lot of ostentation or sexiness, but what he has put together is massive and has become part of the plumbing of the Internet.

Some symbols the people struggle with, such as the chandelier in the vestibule that some feel speaks of ostentation, or the stiffly decorated church parlor that many feel is more mausoleum than a meeting place.

The real purpose is a calculated indifference to clothes, an ostentatious rejection of ostentation.

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 it?

Exquisitely beautiful and uniquely talented - yet free of the ostentation common to her trade - Norah Jones is a brilliant young star who worthily stands among the most adored entertainers of the new century.

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 is a rich but grounded article that informs with a minimum of ostentation.

It isn't easy designing an SUV that looks both rugged and elegant, one that is understated but sexy and imposing, one that looks rich and expensive but falls short of ostentation and pretension.

It was large, shadowy, empty of ostentation.

The cabins are comfortable, cozy, devoid of ostentation — perfect for a place that exudes a wilderness feel.

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!

A painting of a wedding cake serves as a reminder of the pronkstilleven, or «still life of ostentation,» as the epitome of good taste, wealth and sophistication.

Shut out the noise from the suspicion that only Gonzalez - Torres can manage to sell some mediocre Hirsts, and here you have a literally delicious show of ostentation that makes a multi-sensory feast which is genuinely fun for the whole family.

A Million Great Ideas «Unmarked by any pomp or ceremony and with a lack of ostentation that seemed totally inappropriate to the importance of the occasion, the one millionth patent was issued on Tuesday, August 8th, 1911.

It is not the sort of character or performance that screams for acceptance, but it's the lack of ostentation that makes it so special.