«OSTENTATIOUS»的英语 引用
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ostentatious的知名引用和例句
A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.
There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.
There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot. Or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's spectacular.' Or that spectacular shot, a big crane move, or something.
There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.
Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for their giddily chic designer duplexes. Others bemoan art being treated as a commodity. But most of the bemoaning is because the art world is stuffed full of bemoaners, bemoaning about everything.
The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.
There isn't any one material that's mine. It all depends on the context. For example, I did a house that had the most exquisite marble applications. That sounds ostentatious, but it wasn't, given the context. The color white I subscribe to extensively. I love thinking about color, but I often go with white.
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Basque-English, English-Basque Dictionary
bulky, gigantic. handikotetu vi. to grow very large. handikuntza n increase,
enlargement. handi-mandi adj. ostentatious, pompous, vain, self-important, handi
-mandiak n(pl.) aristocrats. magnates. handi-mandikeria n vanity, ostentation, ...
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Naked, Embarrassed, and Exposed?
Ostentatious. Clothing: Lay. Aside. Selfish. Desires. "You were taught, with regard
to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its
deceitful desires" Ephesians 4:22 It is so common today to see people in showy ...
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Lamps, pitchers and trumpets: lectures on the vocation of ...
Yes, preachers ought to know how to use words, or else calamities will happen.
Take the following as an illustration : "A clergyman, while composing a sermon,
made use of the words ' ostentatious man.' Throwing down his pen, he wished to
...
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Multicentrism as an Emerging Paradigm in Legal Theory
Since a religious sign constitutes a factor of division within an educative space, a
regulation was recommended.42 The core issue is how to discern what is
ostentatious or conspicuous and what is discrete for manipulating these
adjectives ...
Marek Zirk-Sadowski, Mariusz Jerzy Golecki, Bartosz Wojciechowski, 2009
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A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing ...
To brag; to display one's own worth or actions in an ostentatious manner; to exalt
one's self; — r. ii. to brag of; to display with ostentatious language; to magnify; to
exalt; to exalt in confident expectation of; — ». an expression of ostentatious ...
John Craig (F.G.S.), 1848
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Why the French Don't Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and ...
How to Recognize an “Ostentatious” Sign Many school officials had shown a
highly nuanced sense of how con- text shapes meaning. As the principal ofa lyce
́e in the town ofTrappes, south ofParis, testified before the Stasi Commission, “
What ...
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The Politics of the Veil
physical activity), the minister of education, François Bayrou, decreed on
September 20, 1994, that “ostentatious” signs of re- ligious affiliation would
henceforth be prohibited in all schools.5 The behavior of the students need not
be taken into ...
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Word Smart: Building an Educated Vocabulary
Opulence is often ostentatious. ORTHODOX (OR thuh dahks) adj conventional;
adhering to established principles or doctrines, especially in religion; by the book
• The doctor's treatment for Lou's cold was entirely orthodox: plenty of liquids and
...
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The Facts on File Guide to Good Writing
Both words have negative or derogatory connotations. ostentatious/ostensible
See OSTENSIBLE/OSTENTATIOUS. our/hour See HOUR/OUR. overlay/overlie
The verbs overlay and overlie overlap in meaning but 300 THE FACTS ON FILE ...
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A Gaelic Dictionary: In Two Parts I. Guelic and English. - ...
Written also spaillichd. Spailleaciidail, a. Vain-glorious, ostentatious, conceited.
Spailleachdair, s.m. A vain-glorious man ; an ostentatious man ; a fop; a vaunter.
N. pl. spailleachdairean. Spailleadii, idli, s.m. A check; an abuse — (Shaw); a fall.
Robert Archibald Armstrong, 1825
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Canadian water fetches $50 price tag at the posh Merchant Hotel in …
While spending as much on a bottle of water as one might on dinner strikes some as ostentatious, it's all part of the fine-dining experience for ... «Toronto Star, 七月 15»
Fifi's Adventures: Wayward cat returns from adventure
Especially when I suddenly noticed the ostentatious tree eclipsing my kitchen window. Draped in camellias. Why haven't I noticed these before ... «Toowoomba Chronicle, 七月 15»
McLaren 650S Spider Review: The Supercar For People Who Don't …
There's nothing ostentatious or ornate: Its form is its function. You'll still wow passersby (the doors open upward, after all), even if they've never ... «International Business Times, 七月 15»
INC leaders using planes worth billions of pesos?
Why are the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) leaders using an ostentatious Airbus 330-202 and a Boeing executive jet that cost billions of pesos? «Rappler, 七月 15»
Student Essay Contest Winner: First Place
... and happiness on display in attractive gardens and ostentatious parties; as he witnesses the over-confidence of a Russian, “Christian” world ... «First Things, 七月 15»
Light and Boozy: How To Mix The Best Summertime Drinks
All of the sudden I'm drinking a lot more gin and tonics, tropical drinks, and anything served in an ostentatious tiki mug. It's obvious we drink ... «Daily Beast, 七月 15»
Sometimes judgments are called-for; even in church
... church when he entered – and his ostentatious manner of prayer after the priest had finished his sermon and proceeded into the main part of ... «Albuquerque Journal, 七月 15»
Rick Steves: Tips for steering clear of the madding crowd
... minutes was enjoying the Leonardos, Rembrandts and Matisses while imagining the ostentatious lifestyles of the czars who collected them. «Times Colonist, 七月 15»
Right Field: Fifa's tangled Jeffrey Webb - Ferrari among four cars, 11 …
They had been married less than two years earlier in a lavish and ostentatious wedding at the St Regis Hotel in Atlanta's most stylish suburb, ... «South China Morning Post, 七月 15»
Asheville area literary & book-related events
LISTEN TO THIS: Comedian/storyteller Tom Chalmers hosts event with the theme “Because 'Merica: Patriotic Reports of Ostentatious Displays ... «Asheville Citizen-Times, 七月 15»
