Undoubtedly also there was often a detestable ostentation of reckless expenditure.
It was to this grade of society that judge Clemens and his family belonged, but his means no longer enabled him to provide either the comforts or the ostentation of his class.
You will find him open, communicative, candid, simple in his manners, and a declared enemy to ostentation and luxury.
He is a great enemy to formality, etiquette, ostentation and luxury.
From the first, in his own quaint, original way, without ostentation or offence to his associates, he was pilot and commander of his administration.
French's hatred of ostentation in any form prevented him from allowing Society to fête him to its heart's content.
Anything like show or ostentation is foreign to French's whole nature.
The consequence of this is that the traveller seesostentation of personal luxury instead of retinue.
In a society where pride and ostentation prevail, where rank and wealth are regarded as prime objects of pursuit, marriage comes to be regarded as a means of obtaining these.
Some looked upon this as a piece of ostentation only; others said, the thing was probable, for that he might have brought down by land great numbers of the Thracian cavalry and archers, to assault and disorder them in their camp.
But the proceeding seemed sufficiently imperious and arbitrary, indeed rather a spiteful and insulting ostentation of power, than that the possession of the fortress would be of any great importance.
Nor was it merely their being thus formidable that excited indignation; they were even more odious for their ostentation than they were feared for their force.
His ostentation provoked even the jealousy of his father, the emperor, and he was ordered to lay aside these numerous titles and the arrogant armorial bearings he was attaching to his seals.
He dismissed the envoys of the emperor with presents, wrote a very submissive letter, and, with much ostentation of obedience, retired to private life.
In the calm of the summer sunset I drag my aged limbs with a little ostentation of activity, because I am so old, up to the rocky brow of the hill.
Carlton defended this as an honorable instance of Swift's abhorrence of ostentation in religion.
The Potomac was the theatre of much rivalry andostentation among the rich planters whose estates bordered the river.
He had been fighting for forty years, and his fame was still increasing, without effort or ostentationon his part.
His externals were simple, there was no ostentation in his household; his address was cold without any sort of rudeness, his conversation was polished, he rarely grew warm in discussion.
The matter is not of much consequence, except as an instance of that slovenliness of thinking which is often concealed beneath a peculiar ostentation of logical neatness.
By the same artifice it is that he has obtained from the census of England those delusive averages which he brings forward with the utmost ostentation in proof of his principle.
The actual scribes, mere adjuncts of the royal ménage, never dreamed of putting their own names on record beside those of their royal masters.
The list of kings closes with Sankh-ka-Ra, the fifty-eighth of the long series of Abydos.
The sultan of Joló went to visit the ruler of Mindanao, for greater ostentation taking with him as escort a squadron composed of sixty-seven vessels.
One offence alleged against Serena was that she had taken a necklace from the statue of Vesta--it was then the fashion to clothe and adorn the statues, whether in the interest of modesty or ostentation we cannot say.
And in times of such distress the citizens may well have objected to any useless ostentationon the part of their officials.
He began his reign with anostentation of dutiful regard to the memory of Claudius, whom he buried with the utmost pomp and magnificence, pronouncing the funeral oration himself, and then had him enrolled amongst the gods.
It is very natural for an author to make ostentation of his reading, as it is for an old man to tell stories; for which reason I must beg the reader will excuse me, if I for once indulge myself in both these inclinations.
Some perhaps will look upon the boast of Madame de Bourignon as the utmost ostentation of a prude.
It values neither culture nor beauty, but only the power which belongs to wealth and the ostentation which is the symbol of it.
Also prodigality is much showed in the cost which is laid out for needless pomp and ostentation of greatness or curiosity, in keeping a numerous retinue, and in their gallantry, and in keeping many horses, and costly furniture, and attendance.
You are disgusted by theirostentation of learning.
To obtain public applause, they are betrayed too often into a miserable ostentation of their learning.
I detest the ostentation and the affectation of sentiment as much as you can; but where the real feeling exists, every mode of showing kindness is agreeable.
The senseless ostentation which creeps into the families of good men, and is sustained by their weak compliance with their spoiled children's wishes, does a world of harm.
