(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.
Panache
Definition:
(n.) A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The London Olympics delivered its undeniable panache by throwing a large amount of money at a small number of people who were set a simple goal.
(2) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
(3) Hodgson’s team attracted a certain amount of sympathy and understanding after the Italy defeat but it was beyond them to play with the same attacking panache and, if there is to be a feat of escapology, it will need an almost implausible combination of results and handouts in the final games of Group D. More realistically, they have blown it in their first week.
(4) A week that began with faith in David Moyes disappearing at an alarming rate has ended with United looking more like their old selves, the inclusion of Juan Mata and Shinji Kagawa allowing them to play with a panache that has rarely been evident this season.
(5) It’s prepared and served tableside with a huge dose of panache (and potency).
(6) There was panache to the way the visitors responded to Mangala’s loss when their lead had suddenly been rendered fragile, the manner in which the substitutes, James Milner and Frank Lampard, combined for the latter to dispatch his side’s second 10 minutes from time – a precise finish from the edge of the area – a reminder of underlying pedigree.
(7) Tulisa led, and did so with panache and some beautiful gravel.
(8) If panache is too high a bar he really does need some pushback to make this show at all interesting.
(9) To the moral seriousness established by Orwell and others, they added a crisp wit and a panache welcomed by a country emerging from some stark and difficult years.
(10) All of this is delivered with remarkable panache given his relatively recent introduction to the world of stand-up.
(11) The cabinet papers also disclose that the cabinet secretary, Sir Robert Armstrong, personally warned Thatcher that Heseltine, despite his undoubted "zest and panache'', was not the man to save Britain's inner cities arguing he was "distrusted and disliked in the local authority world".
(12) He presided over Brain of Britain with sympathy for the contestants, wit and panache."
(13) Iain broke out of that dichotomy with all the panache of the spaceship exploding from inside another spaceship on the cover of Consider Phlebas, the first of his SF novels to be published, by writing of an expansive, optimistic possible future rooted in the same materialist and evolutionary view of life that had in the past been seen only as a dark background to cosmically futile strivings.
(14) Yet it was only a passing irritation and Alli can be forgiven when he plays this stylishly, with so much energy and panache.
(15) Of course the first lady embraced the offer and, with unprecedented speed and panache, she was endorsed by all Zanu-PF provinces as the next head of the Women’s League to be elected, without contest, at the current congress.
(16) There are campaign photographs of him, emerging from a motorcade in inscrutable shades, that ooze JFK panache.
(17) We now know that this was the key moment, the crucial day, when France forgot all about Cyrano and buried panache.
(18) Alice has all the makings of a long-term classic: a bold, funny and mercifully whimsy-free take on Lewis Carroll, accompanied by the fizzing musical panache of Joby Talbot’s score.
(19) Rentokil did cleaning; G4S did security; Capita did IT; Serco did anything and everything – and its panache in the bidding process meant that it often beat out competition from specialist firms.
(20) England had scored more points against France than ever before, taking their try tally for the tournament to 18 and looking like a team capable of making an impact in the World Cup – combining power up front with pace and panache.