ostentation

This is something hard to understand in our age of ostentation.

Sir Daniel stood up and looked at his watch with some ostentation.

The police were there in the corners of the square but without ostentation.

We will not have much in the way of chrome or other happy ostentation.

Inside, the office was spacious, but without any trace of ostentation.

They will pay the money, but they want no ostentation.

He did it with great ostentation, glancing significantly at me the while.

This room is almost more ostentation than I can bear."

But here the strips of land were too meager for ostentation.

In the midst of such ostentation, my simple style was striking.

They display wealth in a time that has seemed to encourage ostentation.

The ostentation of the exterior hints at what might lie within.

They mostly dressed very well, some richly, though without ostentation.

And then it spoke again, and the voice had lost a bit of its ostentation.

He is a man of substance, not ostentation or pretence.

It struck him as another useless bit of Imperial ostentation.

They dress with great ostentation, possessing many black slaves of their own.

Address is only one factor in the calculus of success and ostentation.

Most tabloids and television programs focus on the more novel ostentation of the new rich.

There's an element of ostentation: The house looks bigger by being close to others."

The ostentation of people with unlimited money and impeccable taste.

He lived like a simple commoner without any ostentation and pride.

There is often an expectation that they and their families will shun ostentation.

He kept harpers for ostentation rather than because tradition required it.

This was a just world, but it feared both ostentation and desire - often linking the two.