Whatever is done without ostentation and without the people being the witnesses of it, is, in my opinion most praise worthy. From LearnThat.org.
As for the painters who commanded these extraordinary prices, they rivalled each other in ostentation and vanity. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference
Another simile comes to mind when thinking about the comparison: The haiku were slim, efficient tidy bodies — healthy, lacking in ostentation and self-assured about themselves. From Wordnik.com. [And What of the Haiku? : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
You'll see a painted winder there which that 'Umpage got put up to his aunt -- that's his ostentation, that is. From Wordnik.com. [The Giant's Robe] Reference
The exhibits have been divided into six categories namely ostentation, quiet refinement, crispness, fine detail, deformation and flowers and birds. From Wordnik.com. [Brudirect News1] Reference
I would also observe that it is not publicity, but ostentation, which is prohibited; not the mode, but the motive of the action, which is regulated. From Wordnik.com. [Evidence of Christianity] Reference
The kind of ostentation which is criminal, and criminal only because it is fraudulent, is where a person makes a show of giving when in reality he does not give. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)] Reference
For the next few days a deplorable kind of ostentation seemed to possess the Jews. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
Of other false hindrances to pleasure, such as ostentation and pretences of all kinds, there is neither charity nor comfort in them. From Wordnik.com. [Friends in Council — First Series] Reference
Roebuck "where they used to say" rich as Croesus, "he cut away every kind of ostentation, and avoided attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Deluge] Reference
Schwerin, with some ostentation, put his snuff-box on the table. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
At the Concours it's all about glamour shading into ostentation. From Wordnik.com. [Riding In Style] Reference
"Of bad taste and ostentation," interrupted Madame de Lavardens. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Hibit's works are about consumer culture, ostentation and display. From Wordnik.com. [Galleries: Old is new at Touchstone; Rebecca Key turns back time at Transformer] Reference
She writes admiringly that they share with preppies an aversion to ostentation. From Wordnik.com. [Preppy Pitfall: All That Madras, Not Enough Effort.] Reference
Even in Hong Kong, where money and ostentation are de rigueur, Jimmy Lai stands out. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Worry, Be Confident] Reference
Living in the strictest economy and temperateness, he hated anything like ostentation. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
For such a resolution will free a man from all trouble, strife, dissembling, and ostentation. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
So, wisely and without ostentation, work the true agents, the apostles of liberty in this world. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
At an afternoon tea, the hostess should dress richly enough for dignity, but without ostentation. From Wordnik.com. [Etiquette] Reference
He has now foregone all but his pride, and is yet vain-glorious in the ostentation of his melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Where is the man, where the philosopher, who could so live and die, without weakness and without ostentation?. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
In their equipment they show no ostentation; only that their shields are diversified and adorned with curious colours. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus on Germany] Reference
She was an extremely good-looking woman, and exquisitely groomed and dressed, although with an utter absence of ostentation. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves] Reference
That is, his splendid apparel, which he wore through ostentation; he now throws it off, lest he should be known on his flight. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 46: 2 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference
Lady Willshire, in addition to her social activities, is, without ostentation, a woman whose charities occupy a large part of her time. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Such ostentation will induce people to regard thee and thy father as foolish persons, possessed of more wealth than is good for the exercise of wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
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