Sentences with word «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.

The challenge was beauty without ostentation: it had to be serious and sublime.

Based on the book by Richard Russo, «Nobody's Fool» (opening today at Bay Area theaters) is not only a return to form for Benton — who misfired badly with «Nadine» and «Billy Bathgate» — but also a splendid showcase for Newman, an actor so masterful, so lacking in ostentation, that you barely notice he's acting.

Collectors have become less concerned with ostentation than with authenticity.

As a gaggle of glitzy Maldives newcomers clamour for attention, vying to outdo each other for ostentation and outrageous pricing, one company is setting itself apart with a refreshingly different approach — creating an outstanding, authentic Maldives experience that gives guests more of what they want, rather than simply milking as much money as possible from them.

He organized a good party for her, they said I should fire her that she is showing ostentation.

The broad - rimmed hats may have faded into history, but even modern Quakers tend to avoid ostentation and fashion.

Just as ostentation as its design and pilot, Hot Scramble Gundam is set to dazzle with its array of fantastic attacks.

I have already mentioned the Masses at St. Patrick's and at Yankee Stadium; liturgically abstemious and musically elevated, they were in striking contrast to the multicultural ostentation of the Mass at Nationals Park in Washington.

Ecclesiastical «emperors» may love to march in solemn assembly, but to most younger church members today's vestments suggest ostentation — which they have difficulty associating with Jesus.

Also of significance are the Holiness witness against ostentation in life style, the concern for simplicity, and the affirmation of radical equality expressed in avoiding honorific titles in favor of «Mr.» or «Brother.»

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

It was a well - intentioned effort, but some players resented it, seeing ostentation where Maravich sincerely intended generosity.

And a little ostentation is never a bad thing, right?

All the movies about the limitless rich skip right to German automotive ostentation, whenever possible.

But Mrs. Tyler had avoided the bullying ostentation of some of the newer millionaires and steered them to a house that was reassuringly modest — by millionaire standards at least.

Beyond ostentation, these tall beauties are easygoing and capable of staying put for many hours in the position in which they were placed.

Instead of exaggerated fanfare and overrated ostentation, each arrival in Bali Lovina Beach Cottages is sheltered under shading tropical greeneries and ushered by courteous staff to the simple lobby.

For all it's paucity of RPG ostentation and operatic melodrama, Shining In The Darkness comes through where it counts: an approachable and entertaining combat system and a detailed variety of bad guys to hack through on your way to the ultimate confrontation with the proverbial darkness.

The Judson Dance Theatre was a collective of choreographers and performance artists — Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Philip Corner, David Gordon, Deborah Hay, Meredith Monk, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, and James Waring — who championed movements based on ordinary gestures and rejected the narrative ostentation of traditional dance.

But it is devoid of the sensational ostentation, heavy - duty physicality or technical complexity typical of the genre.

Her towering head, shown slightly from below, all but obscures the New York skyline, creating a startling image of ridiculous ostentation.

Via this earnest, elegant rendering, he draws out his subject's shared, seemingly contradictory characteristics: each work is charged with simultaneous masculinity and femininity, the languid threat of violence and a sense of stoic ostentation.

It's not fake - Rolex levels of low - brow ostentation, but it's in the ballpark.

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.

«The economic downturn reminded people of the importance of being financially responsible, even those of significant means, and caused a migration away from over-the-top ostentation,» Boomsma says.

Liberace would be embarrassed by this tacky ostentation.

Instead, the low - slung shape, wide stance, and tidy proportions all convey the essence of the car's performance without ostentation.

«Where art is a clamor and rife with ostentation and ribaldry, and every other painter is grasping for the brass ring,» wrote Art News, «Tworkov's meditative art shows that he has climbed off the merry - go - round and doesn't believe in the free ride.»

This reduces itself to «a desire for ostentation» and hence must be rejected.32

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.

Not only is saving in vogue, but ostentation is considered distasteful.

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.

While Gekko's DB represented aggression and ostentation, perhaps today's softer, slimmer DB symbolizes a retreat, with that extra fabric gently embracing the wearer in a time when plenty of bankers could use a hug.

Meanwhile outwardly, without compromise or ostentation one must maintain, alone if necessary, whatever belongs to the religious life.

We do this not so much by indulging in pious feelings, but by bearing the burdens of our life with simple fortitude and without ostentation.

Reject any temptation to ostentation, careerism or conceit.

I have always found it very strange that these who call themselves successors of the apostles, I mean some poor men — preachers of humility and repentance — should possess great wealth, wallow in luxery, and fill posts more proper to satisfy the vanity of the age and the ostentation of the great than to occupy men who must meditate on the nothingness of human life and on the quest for salvation.

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.

This about a king whose pride and ostentation are unparalleled in biblical history!

If he aimed at a universal dominion, it was the dominion of faith; as to the temporal rule which grew up in his hands, as he used it without ostentation, so he took no step to perpetuate it in his family.

He indulged in no magnificence of apparel, the ostentation of a petty mind; neither was his simplicity in dress affected but a result of real disregard for distinction from so trivial a source.

There ought to be no excessive discomfort and no ostentation about the posture assumed.

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?

They deplore his lack of color and ostentation, just the opposite of the criticism leveled against Red Auerbach when Boston was champion.