ostentatiousness

Over the years, the sisters' ostentatiousness has earned them enemies.

The two plodded on, ignoring each other with sullen ostentatiousness.

The Board of Selectmen ruled against that sort of ostentatiousness in 1994.

And the ostentatiousness that characterized many of the top executives was demoralizing for others, according to several current and former employees.

Ogunde decided to make his first social satirical comment by writing a play designed to expose the vulgarity and ostentatiousness of the craze.

The lobby screamed of opulence if not ostentatiousness, with mosaic floors, Moorish arches, and lofty, beamed ceilings.

Mr. Giuliani said that Mr. Stein's ostentatiousness was "a fatal mistake."

Both the size and the ostentatiousness of a manuscript reflect both on the status of the manuscript and on its owner.

He is, by no stretch of imagination, an austere batsman, but the reckless ostentatiousness has been curbed, and a matured aggression has emerged.

Unlike Guggenheim, who lived well (he had his own manservant with him) but tended to avoid ostentatiousness, Astor seemed to flaunt his wealth.

Mrs. Marcos proudly told reporters in New York recently that a new word, "Imeldific," should be coined to describe her special sort of ostentatiousness.

He adds, "A certain type of power, a certain ostentatiousness with power, does not blend happily with the idea I have of the relationship between women and the world."

Anthropologist Ruth Benedict used the terms to characterize cultures that value restraint and modesty (Apollonian) and ostentatiousness and excess (Dionysian).

The seizure was led by Juhayman al-Otaybi and Abdullah al-Qahtani who cited the corruption and ostentatiousness of the ruling house of Saud.

Scholars have noted that the phrase 'Emperor's new clothes' has become a standard metaphor for anything that smacks of pretentiousness, pomposity, social hypocrisy, collective denial, or hollow ostentatiousness.

She even discovers a bit of herself - "what it is to be the one that's different" - in the interloper, whose ostentatiousness turns out to be a front for insecurity and need.

In the dialogue, Socrates criticizes Telauges for his extreme asceticism and Critobulus for his ostentatiousness, apparently in an attempt to argue for a moderate position.

For all of the legal lingo its characters throw around with the awkward ostentatiousness of fledgling law students, strict legal accuracy goes by the boards whenever the demands of drama dictate.

LIKE many Middle Eastern deluxe hotels, the Jacir Palace InterContinental is an exercise in Ottoman-era ostentatiousness, with an elegant, filigreed facade and soaring domed ceilings.

Proust does not designate Charlus' homosexuality until the middle of the novel, in "Cities"; afterwards the Baron's ostentatiousness and flamboyance, of which he is blithely unaware, completely absorb the narrator's perception.

Besides demonstrating his ties to ordinary Americans, the importing of people to Washington appeared to be an effort by Mr. Clinton to temper the ostentatiousness of inaugural week during a time of economic distress. '

The colonel was well aware that for most of the government employees symbols of high status were the size and ostentatiousness of their offices, especially when coupled with a steady flow of invita- tions to official occasions and events.

In response to what was perceived as the excessive ostentatiousness of some of these individualized uniforms, Congress banned diplomatic uniforms altogether in 1867, by passing a resolution forbidding diplomatic officials to wear "any uniform or official costume not previously authorized by Congress".

The publicity, including press coverage of annual overseas tours between 1908 and 1913, gave Russell a measure of international celebrity, prompting letters of concern by Bible Students over his supposed ostentatiousness, which in turn led Russell to defend his mode of transport and accommodation.