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.
