The windows of its boutiques, often built into an old Roman wall, glittered with Gucci, Ferragamo and other designer confections, as well as sleek Italian shoes ostentatiously displayed like jewels.

The roast wild goose with figs that she was ostentatiously displaying was one of my favourite dishes, as she very well knew.

When the crisis came Mordecai-who had, by his refusal to bow to Haman or, rather, to the image of an idol ostentatiously displayed on his breast (Pirḳe R. El.

"The Poe Shadow" is thick with intrigue and thicker still with carefully researched (and ostentatiously displayed) details.

Its trailer shows graphic images of conflict - children with limbs lopped off, a dead man on the ground with his heart ripped out - juxtaposed with Western singers and rappers ostentatiously displaying their diamonds.

At meetings concerning Scores payoffs and the investigation, Mr. Blutrich and Mr. Pfeffer said, the mobsters often put guns on the table or ostentatiously displayed their weapons.

When the parliament moved to Oxford, in March 1681, College went there on horseback, ostentatiously displaying weapons and wearing defensive armour, speaking threateningly against the king, and advocating resistance.

In major public areas of cities, the police presence has been especially conspicuous, with weapons ostentatiously displayed.

Raskujan received him with a submachinegun displayed ostentatiously across his knees.

Entertainment consisted of Andy Williams - "Uncle Andy" to the Giffords' ostentatiously displayed tots - dropping by to lip-sync a song.