After a decade of President Carlos Menem's brash ostentation, Mr de la Rua's greyness appeals.
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Among the next generation is George Clooney, whose suits are usually dark in color and devoid of ostentation.
With the niceties of summer long past, it's still nice to revel in the sheer pleasure of innocently glorious ostentation.
Even before he became pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was known as an outspoken champion of the poor, and for his ostentatious lack of ostentation.
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If Gucci under Tom Ford was all sizzle and sexual tension, then Gucci under Giannini has all of the frisson but less of the ostentation.
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The time-shift works brilliantly since both periods favoured elegance and ostentation.
The polling shows certain qualities help a player win influence with the public: being intensely competitive without ostentation, and valuing winning above calling attention to yourself.
At the Concours it's all about glamour shading into ostentation.
Gelb lacks the ostentation usually expected of the impresario.
Mr Sezer and his wife, Semra, have begun to win the affection of many Turks by their discreet style, which has little of the pomp and ostentation of most of their predecessors.
Not everyone can afford or prefers the same Citizen Kane-level of ostentation, but many luxury homeowners still look for innovative ways of maintaining, interconnecting, or adjusting their homes and the results are pretty impressive.
Rather as today's organisers are fending off references to the splendour of Beijing, their predecessors faced comparisons with the ugly ostentation of Berlin in 1936 and the glamour of Los Angeles in 1932.
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Gupta and Lal are just two of thousands of victims of a new and vicious crime wave that has cast a pall of fear over Bombay, India's commercial and cultural center and a city that has always thrived on boisterous ostentation.
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