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Usage for ostentation


By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) Huguette M. Clark was buried as she had lived - without family and ostentation. Clark, who passed away at the age of 104, had spent the last 22 years of her life in hospital rooms, in spite of her robust good health ...

Rubbing people's noses in ostentation is one thing; having a dubious source of that ostentation is another highly dangerous dimension. Even the more enlightened will have difficulty in defending some of the mind boggling rewards that a few individuals ...

But then, ostentation is not Trott's way. Try to recall any of the shots during the winter that brought him 445 Ashes runs at an average of 89 and a further 422 at 60 in the World Cup and you may struggle. Yet the stats - he averages 61 in Tests - tell ...

The writer considers he has made a great discovery in moral and political science; and elevated by his subject above all personal influences, he commits it to be worked out by others, without the ostentation of recording his name, or deeming that the ...

She decries the ostentation of the fabulously wealthy, who often show up with a caravan of trunks for their stay at her resort. "I can spend a week with two pairs of jeans and a couple of shirts," she retorts. Helicopter-owning guests are advised to ...


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