Sentences with phrase «ostentatious when»

The French are the opposite of ostentatious when it comes to labels — look for a well made, timeless piece that doesn't have a large logo letting everyone know how expensive it was.

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Thus, instead of saying «Charity should not be ostentatious,» he says, «When you do some act of charity, do not announce it with a flourish of trumpets.»

And when I saw the jacket I fell in love but decided it would not be a good investment because it is very ostentatious (love that word) and I thought I wouldn't be able to wear it much.

It's just enough sparkle without being terribly ostentatious or something that sticks out so badly that it becomes the only thing you see when walking in the kitchen.

When Calvin Candy's servant explains his role in maintaining the estate, Django replies that the white man is «almost like a nigger,» a bold remark punctuated with one of several ostentatious zooms lifted from the spaghetti western vernacular — allowing for yet another moment of unlikely humor.

When Waltz uses a self - consciously ostentatious word like «ascertain» (as in, «I was simply trying to ascertain...» — the kind of verbiage QT is as likely to put in the mouth of a lowlife crook as a German dentist, or a Francophile plantation slavemaster, for that matter), it sounds right.

«Brandy Burre is Actress,» the surprisingly ostentatious (for nonfiction) title card announces, and so it goes: Burre stars as herself, a Master's - holding former supporting player from «The Wire» who took a break from acting after the birth of her first child, and who now seeks to get back in the game at a moment when her long - term relationship appears to be breaking apart like the dishware.

The package is luxurious without being ostentatious and the car performs very well when the driver does his part.

When ostentatious cruising is called for, look no further than Rolls - Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe.

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.

The front seat becomes unusable when this feature is fully utilized, but it does let Audi offer a Maybach - like luxury feature in a slightly less ostentatious package.

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.

There are plenty of great little touches spread throughout the game, like Lego Sparrow's ostentatious walk animation or the way the cursed crew of the Black Pearl seamlessly turns skeletal when they step into moonlight.

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.

(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.)

And they got it: Van Dyck's ostentatious image of upper - class magnificence becomes a tragic memorial to a bloody conflict when you know that both these young men would die in the civil war.