Sentences with phrase «such ostentatious»

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.

There's a great moment where Pellington kicks his office door after the studio shaves $ 2M from his budget, but he's such an ostentatious personality here it's difficult to muster sympathy for him as the bean counters close in.

Fargeat's camera apes the male gaze in such an ostentatious way that it's nearly laughable, a parody of the way that women's bodies are consumed in horror movies.

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That is why he expressed such horror of ostentatious display of religion where a true inward devotion was lacking.

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.

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?

Although the stoic nature of her character effectively mutes any need for ostentatious displays of emotions, Carano's imposing physical build, looks, and dynamic fighting style does make up for the lack of nuance in her character, such that it creates that certain mystique that many quiet - but - deadly action stars like Clint Eastwood benefit from.

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.

As part of identifying such an advisor, make sure there is a mutual understanding that an ostentatious lifestyle is not a valid financial goal.

However, it's delivered with such bombastic authority, that it's hard to not be hooked in by its ostentatious approach.

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»).

Themes such as alchemy and religion, symbols of power and wealth, the ostentatious and the sublime, are also of chief concern.

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.

I daresay that Burberry, Man Booker and other sponsors of such prizes do have a devotion to the arts, but a cash prize is quite an ostentatious way of showing it.

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.

In Canada, Quebec aims to prohibit «ostentatious» religious symbols (such as the burka and niqab) in interactions with the public service.