(n.) The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.
(n.) A show or spectacle.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are supposed to slaver enviously at this ostentation; if we don’t, we condemn ourselves as losers.
(2) The company that helped the couple design it said: “They wanted not ostentation but ‘a spirit of home’.” While the yacht was designed primarily for relaxed cruising, Staley has sailed her across the Atlantic to complete one of his “bucket list” life goals.
(3) Awopbopaloobop transferred the underworld grit, diamond-studded teeth and overflowing dresses in Cohn’s imagination to the glamour, the ostentation, the ruthlessness and grubbiness of the pop business.
(4) Yet it would be wrong to overlook the damage done to the Japanese psyche in the immediate aftermath of the bursting of the bubble in the early 1990s, a decade of excess and ostentation sustained by a shared illusion that the economy would remain for ever on an upward trajectory.
(5) Many of those present had travelled for days by bus or plane to see a pope that they admire for his spirituality, lack of ostentation and strong emphasis on the poor.
(6) According to Billboard , Daleste was involved in São Paulo's ostentation funk scene, where rappers trade gangster bars over heavily percussive beats.
(7) His other great passion is good taste – a quality he credits for distinguishing his family from the tacky ostentation of most Russian oligarchs, who rather embarrass Lebedev.
Pageantry
Definition:
(n.) Scenic shows or spectacles, taken collectively; spectacular quality; splendor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed, with the pageantry already knocked off the top of the news by reports from Old Trafford, the very idea of a cohesive coalition programme about anything other than cuts looks that bit harder to sustain.
(2) There's nothing wrong with Sir Bob, but I already hear the rumble of meaningless pageantry and national self-congratulation.
(3) No amount of choreographed fireworks or musical pageantry can mask that this is little more than a public hanging, and there is no honour in summoning the world to our gallows.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Queen’s speech: Pomp, pageantry and Dennis Skinner’s heckle – video highlights Lord Falconer, the Labour peer and shadow justice secretary, said the language in the Queen’s speech on the human rights act, which is controversial with some Conservative backbenchers, was too vague.
(5) 'American carnage': Donald Trump's vision casts shadow over day of pageantry Read more Charles Lindbergh, the famed aviator, its chief spokesman, delivered a notorious speech to the America First Committee just eleven days after Hitler invaded Poland and launched World War II in 1939, which described “an over-increasing effort to force the United States into the conflict,” “carried on by foreign interests, and by a small minority of our own people.” Lindbergh identified the enemies of American “independence and freedom”: “The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration.” After Pearl Harbor, the America First Committee disbanded.
(6) Boyle knows that there can be no North Korean pageantry, nor any of the unironic, chest-puffing patriotism of LA 1984.
(7) You are crazy.” Pope Francis departs US after historic tour from Havana to Philadelphia - live Read more The mass capped a day of rapture and poignance for those swept up in a week of pope mania, a public relations triumph during which the 78-year-old Argentinian deftly mixed politics and pageantry to draw attention to his priorities – poverty, injustice, pollution – and to challenge the US to do better.
(8) It’s probably a very smart approach to deal with a bully.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump joins ceremonial sword dance in Saudi Arabia Pointing to the sword dance Trump took part in on his trip to Saudi Arabia, she said that Trump clearly enjoys honours and pageantry.
(9) Starkey and I are hidden away in a back room at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich , where he has guest curated an exhibition tracing the history of Thames pageantry.
(10) Some believe the sentiment and pageantry around his loss would rally sympathy for the party to which he is so devoted that he once joked he would seek out a branch in heaven.
(11) Music, colour and pageantry is generally supplied on such occasions by the Gordon Highlanders.
(12) Young love; pageantry delivered punctiliously; and old love, too.
(13) But even now, the graveyard clamour and pageantry of martyrdom has not led Hezbollah's leaders to address their direct involvement – a move that has profound implications both in Lebanon and across the region.
(14) The Queen’s speech, delivered in the House of Lords amid the traditional pageantry, included plans for 21 bills , on topics ranging from streamlining the planning system to tackling extremism – as well as three carried over from the previous session, including the investigatory powers bill, which will make it easier for public bodies to monitor communications .
(15) Experts say the state-sponsored pageantry surrounding the project marks it more as an attempt to stir patriotic feelings and support for Egypt’s military-backed government.
(16) Bonfires, fireworks and traditional pageantry are all part of the week's programme which has full coverage on BBC TV and radio."
(17) – he asked me a question that changed my entire perspective: what if some of Bizet's "pageantry" held a key to the opera's deepest meaning?
(18) No, it's mostly that I dislike the impulse that it is possible somehow to eliminate the hum of life from a school and, with it, all the social pageantry that makes, for most students, a state school education even remotely endurable.
(19) When the models stood stock-still for their finale, their sumptuous gowns distressed by bullet holes and burnmarks, they seemed to follow in the great British tradition of pageantry.
(20) The aristocratic Blow also had a huge influence on McQueen’s worldview, fuelling an interest in history and pageantry.