Sentences with phrase «on ostentatious»

I called upon a trained eagle to scour the map for me and track down the statue on an ostentatious barge, replete with trained guards.

But I don't want to keep harping on the ostentatious color of the Grand Cherokee Red Vapor because Jeep did add a lot of quality features to the exterior and interior of the SUV, enough at least to justify its special - edition billing.

At this stage in the actors» lives, they put on no ostentatious displays to conceal insecurities.

Also, this is a vehemently old - school action / war movie that's mercilessly low on ostentatious CGI.

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The first decade of the 21st century, however, would bear witness to a spectacular turning point in the private launch timeline: the arrival on the scene of disruptive billionaire tech entrepreneurs with some truly ostentatious rocket - powered ambitions.

Christopher Whalen: Yeah, there were a little ostentatious, a little floppy with the parties, pasting their names on the side of office buildings around the world.

And whoever leads the country should get there on their merits as a leader, not how many ostentatious public prayers they can give!

As we have already seen, Matthew (6:9 - 13) puts the Lord's Prayer in the Sermon on the Mount, as a contrast to the Pharisees ostentatious praying.

As a young girl Caterina accompanied her father on state visits, turning heads everywhere they went with their ostentatious train.

Pavlova won me over and now I'm on to equally ostentatious and delicious Tiramisu.

This is to be enjoyed with a weather eye on the horizon for inflatable alcohol industry Nazis, judgemental washed up neo-prohibitionists or any grandiloquent, ostentatious foxes.»

They felt ostentatious, like something Flava Flav would put on a chain.

Employees, on occasion, can also be critical of ostentatious recreation expenditures.

My personal observation on the behavior of sanctimommies in their natural habitat is that they tend to suffer from overwhelmingly from ostentatious «sadness».

The ostentatious and indiscriminate attacks by Trump on liberal values are therefore completely predictable and necessary for his strategy to work.

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?

Underneath his ostentatious exterior, Mr Arrogant has a low self - esteem so puts on an obnoxious front to cover this up.

Hence, ostentatious shows of wealth as displayed by some young men on their profiles will not entice them at all.

Other than the ostentatious name, it can pride itself on its live video messaging and the fact that free accounts can send messages too.

Writer / director Welles does not appear on camera, but his voiceover narration superbly sets the stage for the movie's action, which fades in valentine fashion on Amberson Mansion, the most ostentatious dwelling in all of turn - of - century Indianapolis.

His stamp on the film is evident and his adoration and tribute to the genre is clear and ostentatious.

Though the movie retains an intelligence and good grip on viewer attention, Bahrani's film does deflate a bit with an ostentatious climax that goes for overreaching melodrama in which guns come into play.

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.»

Director John Cameron Mitchell surprisingly stays out of the way, reining in his ostentatious style for a locked - down approach that showcases the actors and keeps the focus on the text of David Lindsay - Abaire's adaptation of his own play.

The Buick Avenir (it means «future» in French) is impressive in size, conservative in presentation, and ostentatious enough to tell those on the sidewalk that the owner is someone of substance and importance.

Almost ten years on from its introduction, the modern Dodge Challenger remains an impossibly ostentatious car.

We make good use of materials on simple forms to achieve a high level of understated luxury with nothing overdone, so it is not ostentatious in any way.

Personal transportation has rarely been this unabashedly ostentatious since before the Great Depression; it ought to fit right in on the lawn at Pebble Beach.

Those after the most ostentatious XE on sale are pointed towards the XE SV Project 8, with its huge bumpers and massive rear wing.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping companies competed to build the biggest, fastest ocean liners, scientific advances dazzled the public with visions of a world transformed, and the rich outdid one another with ostentatious displays of wealth.

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

For anybody else it is not much better than an ostentatious nod toward «Going Green» that the Kindle, despite having numbers to support such a claim, fails to advertise on its own.

While you may see some Austrian men bowing to kiss the hand of a lady this is considered ostentatious and is not expected from guests visiting Austria on holiday.

It is and was a style of music that focused on androgynous and / or transgender roles, outrageous hair and glittery, ostentatious outfits, with makeup that was theatrical and a style that was «camp».

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

Doug is a casual gamer with a flare for the bizarre and the ostentatious, he currently resides on Jupiter where he sells space insurance.

They're gunning for the demon lord, Mundus, who rules the city with a cohort of demons from his ostentatious tower of doom, located on doom street in district doom, just opposite Tesco.

The big, bright screen is easy to see on the bus or on a plane, though its size might make you feel a touch ostentatious about using it in public.

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.

In «Dorothy Rogers» Decorating Lesson # 14» (1993), a seated woman, who has not taken off her ostentatious hat, coat, scarf, or put down her pocketbook, announces at the end of a long statement about her health («eyework» and «footwork») that: «On the other hand I can now truly love and live happily with such non-objective contemporaries as Jackson Pollack James Brooks Riopelle and Soulages»).

Here, the material divide between the everyday image on the computer screen and the deliberately ostentatious product (destined, one imagines, for the wealthy collector) ends up reinforcing a social divide Arcangel elsewhere subverts.

There's just too much ostentatious creativity going on.