He never married; and while genial and kindly in nature, he was strongly opposed to anything savoring of ostentation.
en.wikipedia.org Though his fee starts at $85 for a process that uses varying curling irons and heat settings, there is a certain lack of ostentation to the results.
www.thespec.com Its simple facades, with no decoration, are uncommonly utilitarian, with a lack of ostentation typical of the period of its construction.
en.wikipedia.org Cautiousness and ardent passion, dry pedantry and piety, morality and sensuality; simplicity and ostentation composed his nature; and, hence, his literary productions never attained artistic finish.
en.wikipedia.org That the once universal sign of wealth, ordering a big steak, can be replaced by an equal sign of ostentation, a $17 carrot, means the needle is moving.
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