ostentation

• Instead of visual ostentation, the main decoration was verbal. —  Informed Comment
• This ostentation is at the expense of democracy, openness and prosperity. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
• Neither the perfume nor the ostentation was agreeable to Charles, and on leaving the next morning he punished his over-officious host by refusing to permit him to kiss his hand, and by causing him to be paid for the night’s lodging like a common inn-keeper This was not the first time that cinnamon had been burned in the emperor’s chamber. —  Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII
• 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. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)
• Their expenditure was not moderated by what we call good taste, and they did not possess that fine grace of compassing elegance without ostentation which is one of the last results of culture; but as a boy I had missed nothing that money could buy in their house, and I had often thought how my mother would shine there. —  Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science

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