ostentation

The last time I was in New York, the then prime minister – with more than a splash of ostentation – took us reporters to the top of the Empire State Building for interviews.

The museum was housed on a plain business campus with none of the ostentation and branding excess of American tech campuses.

They may also look askance at displays of ostentation like designer gowns and showstopping wedding cakes.

Sunday afternoon at Walt Disney Concert Hall, his arm movements lacked ostentation and could barely be seen from behind.

The ostentation of the campaign stunned residents in a city so remote that it is not even connected to the country’s main power grid.