Sentences with phrase «with ostentation»

The French people have an affection for beautiful things that has nothing to do with ostentation or acquisitiveness.

«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.»

Collectors have become less concerned with ostentation than with authenticity.

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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.

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.

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

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

The same formula is applied today as it was nearly 25 years ago — a big, quiet, cushy, V -8-powered sedan that does things well and with minimal drama, but whose main goal is isolation and precision, not passion or ostentation.

With many of the rooms decorated in Neo-Shanghai style, the Bougainvillier straddles a slightly uncomfortable place between taste and ostentation, but we think it pulls it off.

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.

5 star Luxury hotel with only 36 rooms and suites, a discreet address without ostentation.

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.

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

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!

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.