To many of the vast majority that don't have one they're an ostentatious waste of cash.
But as wealth returned it brought the desire for a more conservative and ostentatious lifestyle.
They are nothing glam or ostentatious, just modest operations that blend perfectly into the tropical surroundings.
The more powerful and senior the nobleman, the more intricate and ostentatious his gift.
Every ostentatious symbol of teenagehood is on display: Puma, Adidas, Nike, Quiksilver, baggy jeans, hooded tops.
In place of flashy condos and ostentatious estates, colorful row houses and cozy bungalows set the tone.
The Mughal elite enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle, with gardens, feasts, harems, sweeping palaces and many other ostentatious manifestations of wealth.
Call them greedy and ostentatious if you want, but don't call them stupid.
Independent-mindedness could give way to ostentatious partisan loyalty, already endemic in the Commons.
The Ghost car is proving successful because it is a bit more affordable and less ostentatious than the Phantom.
An ostentatious public consultation on the issue finished this month, and some official pronouncement is expected in the next few months.
The thing was so huge and ostentatious, people on the plane back home were congratulating me on becoming a new wife!
An ostentatious name, Benedict has never really fitted anywhere - too Catholic to be upper class, too long and Latin-sounding to be matey.
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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Although the color at first glance may seem a bit ostentatious, the fine craftsmanship finishes and details creates a garment with a timeless charm.
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While London's charitable ball circuit is nowhere near as lavish or ostentatious as New York's, there are other signs of British fund-raising becoming Americanised.
Mr. Taaffe's big, bold pictures perch right on the edge between the eye-boggling visual wildness of Op Art and the ostentatious conventionality of Victorian wallpaper.
Unlike gaudy jewels, palatial homes, and ostentatious cars, private foundations are a uniquely admired, understated way to make the powerful statement that you have arrived.
It's much less ostentatious than New York, although that may change.
Peter York, a writer on posh London, notes that a previous generation built shockingly ostentatious houses in Mayfair, with running water and lots of marble.
Barth's-style hospitality--luxurious but never ostentatious--under current owners David and Jane Matthews.
On Sunday, just after polls closed, emotional funeral prayers for Ms. Hussain were held at a mosque in the neighborhood, which is lined by ostentatious villas.
One tester found the amount of icing on the Georgetown cakes "ostentatious, " but most liked the cake-to-icing ratio and the overall moistness of the cake itself.
Even veteran music journalist David Quantick, who despises what he regards as the ostentatious breast-beating of emo, admits that he cannot bring himself to hate its adherents.
"It was a privileged realm ... but the homes were not ostentatious, and there were no high hedges or long drives shielding them from view, " Isaacson wrote.
Rows of faux-classical columns, gilded bathrooms or ostentatious curved driveways may or may not qualify for the designation, but most folks know one when they see one.
" Hernandez said if he could do it again, he would have instructed the Mets to refrain from christening him with a "C, " calling it "gaudy" and "ostentatious.
Beyond ostentatious wealth, Dubai has become a major banking center.
France's National Assembly began debating a controversial bill to ban the wearing of the Muslim headscarf and other ostentatious religious symbols in French state schools and other public institutions.
John Power, who is now joint chairman of the business, said his father was "never frivolous or ostentatious with money", but decided on his retirement to buy himself the Bentley.
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