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Ostentation by the nouveau riche is never appealing.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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She also laces into Queen Victoria's ghastly imperial menus ("O is for Ostentation") and the provincial tediousness of fruit cup, a "short-stemmed glass filled with a seemingly patented and changeless mixture of overcooked tinned fruits" ("I Is For Innocence").
The Romantical She Amy Finnerty 2011
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I'm taking a leaf out of his book and signing off my love letters with the acronym SWTQSOONCB: Sealed With The Quite Sufficient Ostentation Of Non-Carnal Bussing.
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"Ostentation is my style," the chimp says by way of apology.
Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love Ron Charles 2011
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Ostentation by the nouveau riche is never appealing.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Ostentation by the nouveau riche is never appealing.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Ostentation by the nouveau riche is never appealing.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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"Ostentation is my style," the chimp says by way of apology.
Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love Ron Charles 2011
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Had I on the Occasion before me handled the Doctrine of Demons, or launched forth into Speculations about magical Mysteries, I might have made some Ostentation, that I have read something and thought a little in my time; but it would neither have been Convenient for me, nor Profitable for those plain Folkes, whose Edification I have all along aimed at.
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From these oblique lessons the poem then returns to the firefly, whose lost light suggests how "fugitive your fame" and, by extension, how fugitive the fame of all who trust art or sculpture to preserve their "vaunting Ostentation," in marked contrast to those who are unhonored, unknown, but cherished by friendship, by affection (Smith 204-207).
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