Примери за ostentation

• Late prehistoric ostentation, by contrast, was aimed at a larger audience and there is no sign of an exclusive elite culture.

• Luxury of comfort is not only useful, but also more just than the luxury of ostentation.

• In this sense, the pretension of ostentation and visual impact produced a voluntary alteration of reality.

• Luxury of ostentation is the kind of luxury with which the very wealthy engage in display; it originates from vanity.

• Nader is depicted as a young man disdainful of the ' 'vain ostentation, the pettiness, the laziness and dithering' ' (p. 23) that supposedly characterized the court.

• This much is suggestive of a composer eager to associate himself with libretti of some literary ostentation, in a genre where this was not always expected.

• The costly rhetorical education given to the children of the elite was another private ostentation, an investment of cultural capital that could only be mobilised among the educated.

• Pay never covered outgoings, particularly given the culture of ostentation to which nobles were addicted.

• Amongst possible causes is the unlikely case that the leading classes lost interest in having male servants as a symbol of luxury, ostentation, power and riches.

• The whole of that movement was carried out with very little fuss and with no ostentation.

• Here he showed no ostentation or bravado but pursued his objectives by quiet, patient and persistent diplomacy.

• I hope they have grown up a little now, and have seen the absurdity of such ostentation.

• There is no reason at all, however, why we should pay for ostentation, prestige or luxury.

• Those who, spend it in ostentation and unnecessary luxury have certainly no sympathy from me.

• Nobody is ashamed of ostentation and show to-day when they indulge in it.