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He opts for understatement even with projects that would tempt other publishers to be ostentatious.
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A Bay Area fashion stylist, Saba Ali, remembers a lively conversation in early 2017 with "some people saying there's no such thing as Islamic fashion, since the faith says you should not be ostentatious," she said.
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Hegar shrugs it off and tells him about being shot down in Afghanistan and being awarded a Purple Heart and the Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor — she doesn't mention that she is only one of seven women to win the latter, because it would be ostentatious.
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Chest tombs In the graveyard to the northeast of the meeting house are five joined chest tombs to the Myers family dated between 1687 and 1737. They are designated as a Grade II listed building. This style of tomb is unusual in Quaker burial grounds as it was considered to be ostentatious and was later discouraged by the movement.
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Greek komboskini of 100 knots Tikhon of Moscow dressed in his monastic habit as the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia with a white prayer rope in his left hand When praying, the user normally holds the prayer rope in the left hand, leaving the right hand free to make the Sign of the Cross. When not in use, the prayer rope is traditionally wrapped around the left wrist so that it continues to remind one to pray without ceasing. If this is impractical, it may be placed in the (left) pocket, but should not be hung around the neck or suspended from the belt. The reason for this is humility: one should not be ostentatious or conspicuous in displaying the prayer rope for others to see.
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