ostentatiousness

"Godspell" works best when it is presented most simply, and this production steers well away from the kind of glossy big-bucks ostentatiousness that could have killed it stone dead.

That Wild and Crazy Messiah Terry Teachout 2011

We must not allow personal presumptions and private stylistic preferences to absolutely determine what constitutes ostentatiousness or "mere sumptuous display," (SC, para. 124) recalling as well that "[the] Church has not adopted any particular style of art as her very own; she has admitted styles from every period" (para. 123); we must seek to distinguish between personal preference and universal principle.

Noble Simplicity and the Liturgiologist Edmund Bishop 2009

In digging through the strata of accusations focused on artifice -- dubious motivation, false presentation, ostentatiousness -- it should have become clear that the underlying suspicion being voiced is that the writer's "artifice" is covering a shallow concern with status, that the primary purpose of the work is to establish the writer's superiority.

Archive 2008-04-01 Hal Duncan 2008

In digging through the strata of accusations focused on artifice -- dubious motivation, false presentation, ostentatiousness -- it should have become clear that the underlying suspicion being voiced is that the writer's "artifice" is covering a shallow concern with status, that the primary purpose of the work is to establish the writer's superiority.

Pretentiousness Hal Duncan 2008

“I always thought Bram had ostentatiousness down to a fine art, but you make him look like an amateur.”

Entice Me at Twilight Shayla Black 2010

“I always thought Bram had ostentatiousness down to a fine art, but you make him look like an amateur.”

Entice Me at Twilight Shayla Black 2010

“I always thought Bram had ostentatiousness down to a fine art, but you make him look like an amateur.”

Entice Me at Twilight Shayla Black 2010

“I always thought Bram had ostentatiousness down to a fine art, but you make him look like an amateur.”

Entice Me at Twilight Shayla Black 2010

But even if you're not especially into automobiles and think that a 1,001 horsepower engine in a hand-made body that goes for a list price that could buy you a decent seven-room house on Key Biscayne is an amazing show of ostentatiousness and conspicuous consumption, you have to admit that it is a magnificent piece of automotive styling and grace in a remarkably compact and understated manner.

March 2006 2006

I was okay with Ozy's costume looking like it did, since that level of...ostentatiousness, I guess, seems fitting to the character.

Archive 2008-03-02 2008