ostentatiousness

Example Sentences

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Chamberlain may have been more flamboyant, but Walton, in “Luckiest Guy,” is just as conscious of his affect — there’s an ostentatiousness, and no small amount of ego, in the way he performs modesty.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2023

Tutu had insisted there should be "no ostentatiousness or lavish spending" on the ceremony and that he be given "the cheapest available coffin".

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2022

“The archbishop was very clear on his wishes for his funeral. He wanted no ostentatiousness or lavish spending,” the Tutu trust said in a statement.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2021

There is also an element of pragmatism in our shunning of martial ostentatiousness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2018

Whenever I have heard such sermons I have wanted to get up and stalk out of the church with ostentatiousness of contempt, as if to say to the preacher that his conduct did—not—meet—with—my—approval.

From The Delicious Vice by Allison, Young Ewing