The textures are dense, but mood — not ostentation — prevails.
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He still sees no need to indulge in ornament or ostentation.
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Mr. Alpert's trumpet solos were paradoxically effusive and modest, devoid of ostentation.
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Now, let us be candid, they are invoked only for pretense or ostentation.
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Lady Gaga made her name with ostentation, ironic flamboyance and pseudo performance art.
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German bankers earn a fraction of what their American counterparts do, and avoid ostentation.
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Ostentation was thus a disgraceful distraction from the asceticism required to examine one's own conscience.
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Funk ostentação (ostentation funk), which celebrates money and fame, is especially popular in São Paulo.
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China's biggest online shopping company kicked off the country's biggest shopping day with its usual ostentation.
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In the late 1930s, the slick blonde Lady Castlerosse substituted Art Deco ostentation and installed bathrooms.
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The women spend wildly to prove their status, but affect disdain for the ostentation of others.
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These palatial complexes often combine ostentation, minimal contact with local communities and abundant opportunities for overindulgence.
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Ostentation, not discretion, is Versace territory, as are inspired and even occasionally wacko flights of creative fancy.
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Even the much ballyhooed million-dollar prize feels more like embarrassing ostentation than a sign of success.
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Some of them are straightforward nods to the visual: a cloud of bats; an ostentation of peacocks.
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Urbanears' Plattan headphones are almost recognizable by their lack of ostentation — just a simple, flat, solid colored design.
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Mr. Esteves became a double and perhaps triple billionaire along the way, but he never indulged in ostentation.
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Mizrahi's sartorial sarcasm is somewhere between the subtle smirk of Schiaparelli and the brazen-faced ostentation of Moschino.
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Some consider it an eyesore, but for me, that notch screams the phone's ostentation in a deeply satisfying way.
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I don't have a jewelry box or travel with earring backs; and I'm not dripping in ostentation or personal history.
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The repeated nods to the famously modest Gandhi seemed somewhat incongruous for a president famous for his wealth and ostentation.
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"Most certainly do not engage in ostentation, waste or luxury," Zhang told senior Chinese officials involved in planning for the Games.
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A third dotes on pet dogs named Astor and Rockefeller, one of many nods to the ostentation of America's Gilded Age.
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At the convention, Rodrigo Londoño (pictured, left), the FARC's president, said it would campaign "without dogmatism or sectarianism, far from ideological ostentation".
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Victorian ostentation gives way to embalming and a lifelike appearance for open caskets, to cremation and scattering of ashes, to green burials.
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So nobody objected when Alexander Zickler, the beneficiary of Alonso's generosity, raced over to thank him, with pantomime ostentation, for the assist.
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Watches, on the other hand, will always be with us but in their original form – as a tool and a bit of ostentation.
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" The second definition, now obsolete, is instructive as well: "Ostentation, display of the outward tokens of position, as riches, dress; vain-glory, pomp.
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If obvious brand recognition nee ostentation are your goal, the Apple Watch or any of the Samsung Gear line are more your style.
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Follow this sightline on foot, starting at the harbor, an aquatic parking lot of ostentation where yachts are docked beside megayachts docked beside superyachts.
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For a few red carpet watchers, the ostentation was at odds with the somber messaging behind #MeToo's cri de coeur, but hardly a surprise.
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"Black Widow Anarchist Hour Glass," a red-and-black figure eight of gloves, heels and chains, is even balder — an elegant emblem of sadomasochistic ostentation.
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Even Chile's upper class has historically shunned ostentation in favor of austere practicality — in Concepción, for example, the oldest buildings only date to the 1950s.
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As a barefoot child she tended cattle and learned to make do with very little, in marked contrast to her later years of free-spending ostentation.
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But he warned that the bourgeois values of wealth, vanity, and ostentation would impede rather than advance the growth of equality, morality, dignity, freedom, and compassion.
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He is a thrice divorced, self-admitted sexual predator wallowing in the kind of material ostentation that gives David Brooks nightmares, and they ate it up.
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The outfits — plenty by the hip-hop couturier Dapper Dan — are colorful and luxe, though by the end of the club's run, they shift away from ostentation.
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That level of ostentation needs visuals to match and now we have a video that captures the song's many performers in the gilded halls of a mansion somewhere.
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Most flashily, Monsieur Jourdain and his sycophantic enablers parade around in sumptuous periodish costumes by Christian Lacroix, whose extroverted style is perfectly suited to Sun King-style ostentation.
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Both these arbitrary dicta rested on a similar premise: Gold was about ostentation, silver implied D.I.Y. honesty, and both had to be approached with full knowledge of these implications.
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As if overcome by a response he has personally engineered, Mr. Armani retreats in slow backward steps and with a humility whose ostentation is worthy of the greatest thespian.
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For the "Succession" pilot, the production team wanted to create an apartment for Logan Roy, the paterfamilias played by Brian Cox, that would suggest power, not magazine cover ostentation.
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Was scriptwriter Peter Morgan perhaps thinking of how, in the current political environment, some national leaders seek and relish ostentation, rather than feeling discomfort at having it thrust upon them?
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Even Ms. Griswold, the landscape historian, concedes that there are far more egregious examples of Hamptons ostentation than wrapping your garden as a gift to yourself to unwrap come spring.
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It's among the contentions of D. J. Taylor's clever and timely "The New Book of Snobs" that the world would be a poorer place without a bit of insolence and ostentation.
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So it's hardly surprising that the 1,700-square-foot two-bedroom house Nevins had built for herself two decades ago on the East End of Long Island favors serenity over ostentation.
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So the four girls form their own secret troop, "The Ostentation of Others and Outsiders," with the goal of ridding the Floras of their outdated ceremonial hat made of real bird feathers.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Organizers of the 2022 Winter Olympics must ensure the event is not tainted by "ostentation, waste or luxury", Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli said on Wednesday, according to state television.
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Album Review If you were a child of the hip-hop internet of the late 2000s, you enjoyed the gaudy ostentation of Cam'ron and the slow-moving psychedelia of Houston hip-hop.
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" The day after the concert, the Times critic Olin Downes sanguinely concluded that "there is a degree of ostentation in this music which would be funny if it were not so vulgar.
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Francis is a radically different head of the Catholic Church, one who has stirred ire and controversy for his progressive views (by Catholicism's standards, anyway), and one who eschews too much ostentation.
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They had radiance, a lesson in (relatively) tasteful ostentation, and a reminder that what Mr. Michele is doing to and with logos was already happening 30 years ago out of a Harlem storefront.
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And, while Bill may have made his own austere personal ethics a brand of ostentation (he usually demurred when society hostesses proffered him a glass of water), the point he was making still holds.
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For the past three years, a crackdown on corruption and ostentation by President Xi Jinping dampened sales: big names such as LVMH, owner of Louis Vuitton, shuttered stores, particularly in second- and third-tier cities.
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The tanned arms manacled with gold bracelets you may encounter in Rome or the manicured hands adorned with the D-flawless rocks favored by the Milanese are not typical of a city that disdains ostentation.
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As long as Tara herself remained unknown, and her motives remained ambiguous, My Immortal was essentially Schrödinger's fanfic, both high trolling and genuine ostentation, a simultaneous celebration and mockery of fandom at its best and worst.
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Lea Michele: Christmas in the City (Sony) Like Idina Menzel, fellow Glee and musical theater star Lea Michele uses the Christmas album as a venue for showing off her voice, but ostentation comes in many forms.
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And yet, as the episodes toggle between the ostentation of the hip-hop world and the grayness of police headquarters, it's hard to overlook that a story of this historical significance is rendered in such proletarian fashion.
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"I'm probably going to get some catty comments," Mr. Lauren said of fashion show guests who will perhaps see ostentation and dollar signs and not passion in a billionaire's decision to stage a fashion show inside his garage.
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Grime, which got its start a decade and a half ago as the antidote to the spread of garage, which had become the sound of British nightlife ostentation, is beginning to spawn its own generation of dissenters and counterpunchers.
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Mr. Gómez and other architects working in the area (including Diego Montero, another household name) have taken cues not just from the local landscape but also from the local culture: Uruguayans are known as laid back, unassuming and prone to frown on ostentation.
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It is reminiscent of an actual event in the fall of 1948 on the Rue Lepic in Montmartre, when two older women, enraged at what they saw as irresponsible ostentation and waste, tore at a Dior dress worn by a young woman.
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In its conception and programming, the Shed is ultimately an act of repentance for the sins that surround it — an attempt at making amends for all the greed and ostentation embodied in the $23 billion playpen in which it has been sunk.
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The marchesa, who spent summers there early in the last century, fitted it up with eerie Gothic ostentation and populated it with black servants painted gold, dyed pastel birds, creepy wax mannequins and an enormous live cobra that she wore as a stole.
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Liu's extravagant hobby is the subject of considerable fascination in China, and is interpreted variously as a financial investment, a publicity stunt, a patriotic bid for the world's attention, and an act of pure ostentation, such as one might expect from a tuhao .
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Many of the people on my block live extremely well and very quietly, bound by a distaste for ostentation that anyone moving into a 7,750-square-foot, seven-bedroom townhouse staged with potted boxwoods on the stoop was unlikely to regard with a similar ardor.
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Here is Liliane Bettencourt, the L'Oréal cosmetics heiress and richest woman in Europe, surrounded by the onetime "Golden Boy of Paris," eavesdropping servants, bilkers of every stripe, vicious family warfare, fabulous ostentation, alleged Nazis in the family tree and political corruption at France's highest levels.
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Remember that pundit-driven TV news, Twitter and online comment boards are designed precisely for shallow banter — pronouncements and reactions, not discourse — so if you expect anything other than tribalism, trolls and ostentation, your expectations are out of whack and need to be calibrated.
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He has built up a reputation for ostentation, riding a horse to his first day on the job, minting a challenge coin, upgrading his office doors at an initial cost of $139,000, and having the Interior Department headquarters fly a flag whenever he's in the building.
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Critic's Notebook One of the promises of last year's SoundCloud rap explosion was that it might upend hip-hop's center, injecting punk energy and brusqueness into a genre that has threatened to become complacent with its ostentation, its melody and its largely unchallenged seat atop pop.
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This is Florida, where campaign money flows like sugar cane runoff and the Republican Party establishment is planning to make what could be its last stand against a man, Donald J. Trump, who embodies many of the state's stereotypes — the love of a year-round suntan, an obsession with golf, a preening ostentation.
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That his designs increasingly skew toward the evolving tastes of a new class that favors invisibility over ostentation was telegraphed by the restraint of the double-breasted cashmere jacket that opened the show (worn over a sweater); the voluminous dark tweed coats; the lumberjack plaid shirt jackets no lumberjack will ever be able to afford.
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Bret: There's a side of me that thinks that Trump is a natural culmination for a country that has spent the past 60 years besotted with television, the past 50 with moral relativism, the past 40 with ostentation, the past 30 with the politics of sex, and the past 20 with the politics of fear.
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Leaving aside some lizard-skin boots with stacked heels, the collection stopped well shy of ostentation and ran to the beautifully proportioned and the chromatically assured: gently narrowed bone-white trousers, a draped cinnamon silk sweater, pale-blue track pants with dark side stripes, a dove-gray windbreaker worn with pushed up sleeves atop a shirt of faded lilac.
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The success of the rapper Macklemore (born Ben Haggerty) and Mr. Lewis, a producer, was a reflection of the diffusion of hip-hop's center, and the reach of its outer limits — here was a hip-hop group preoccupied with anti-ostentation and marriage equality, a combination that proved palatable to white audiences, which gobbled up the duo's music, helping make its debut album, "The Heist," go platinum.
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Where you want to give Claude that long hug he's clearly been needing for decades, going full Good Will Hunting and whispering into his ear, "it's not your fault", one can add Ty to the list of oafish celebrity fans we love to hate, to whom we return again and again for such enticing ostentation and knee-jerkery in the wake of every defeat.
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The show is the work of Paolo Sorrentino, the acclaimed director of the Oscar-winning Italian film The Great Beauty, and over and over it strikes the same two notes as that gorgeous, memorable and occasionally tiresome film: 1) an irreverent, even surreal absurdity that can be mesmerizing when it isn't undercutting itself by coyness (does the premiere really need to start with a dream sequence of Pius crawling out from beneath a mound of sleeping fetuses?); 2) a confidently chic minimalism that doesn't always resist the sin of ostentation.
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By and large, most men on Oscars night — with the admirably wacko exception of the Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon, dressed in a shoulderless Moschino tuxedo that included a harness (ready for the after party!), and Armie Hammer, in a tuxedo colored the hue of a red velvet cake and that looked as though it had been saved from prom, and also the fashion novice Timothée Chalamet, who pulled off a white suit from the Berluti designer Haider Ackermann, whose fashion show in Paris this January was the first he had ever attended — chose restraint over ostentation.
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To others, a gaudy and vulgar display of ostentation and insincere orotundity.
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I found him kind and benignant in the domestic circle, revered and beloved by all around him, agreeably social, without ostentation.
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What was meant by “du Geffroy?” A certain brand of ostentation? Perhaps. More likely, people were talking about his unique gift for selecting textiles. The bedroom of Mrs.
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Characteristic of the architecture to abound in Ponce contemporaneous to Castillo 34, is a profusion of aplique, and eclectic combination and juxtaposition of shapes, particularly curvilinear, and a general ostentation of articulation.
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Examples of their descendants include Julius Florus, and Gaius Julius Civilis. Other Julii are descended from the numerous freedmen, and it may have been assumed by some out of vanity and ostentation.
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The emblem made its first on-air appearance on 22 May 1956. The current, six-feathered logo debuted on May 12, 1986. A group of peacocks is called an "ostentation" or a "muster".
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Don Juan Bautista Valerio de la Cruz died in Jilotepec in 1589 and was buried with "ostentation," "pomp, and solemnity" by order of the Viceroy in the Convent of Santiago in Tlatelolco, Mexico.
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Two classrooms were prepared on the second floor, a third room served for the free school and thus, simply and without ostentation, classes opened on May 30, 1880, thus inaugurating Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepción.
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Flop has been referred to as a band with "dangerous tendencies toward dubious ostentation," "dry- witted, intelligent pop" and "too idiosyncratic to be lumped in with what most people think of as 'the Seattle sound'".
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Godwin, 130. While Godwin associates aristocratic honour with vanity and ostentation, there remains in the novel a sense in which honourable behaviour is valued insofar as it signals loyalty, equitable action, and acting in an open manner.
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A type of umbrella became known as a gamp because Mrs. Gamp always carries one, which she displays with "particular ostentation". The character was based upon a real nurse described to Dickens by his friend, Angela Burdett-Coutts.
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Lo Sport . La Donna nel Fascismo. Retrieved on 2014-01-11. Women's engagement in sport fitted the views of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, whose feminine ideal concerned rural, strong and fertile women, in opposition to ostentation and cosmopolitanism.
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Original lot plans for the Beckley Club Estates neighborhood. Beckley Club Estates is home to an ostentation of about 40 peacocks. The neighborhood received international media coverage in 2015 when one of the peacocks was stolen and later returned.
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This prompted a letter to The Times signed by CUCA's Registrar who quipped that "at any one meeting of CU Conservative Association, only one person should ever wear a cravat to avoid ostentation.""Association rules". The Times (London). 18 January 2010.
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Adrianos distinguished himself in the position, according to Basilakes, by his honesty and incorruptibility, lack of ostentation, and his wise and compassionate stance towards the inhabitants of his province, shielding them from the usual rapaciousness of the imperial tax officials.
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He was a close friend of Andrea Appiani and is described as a man alien to intrigue and vanity, pious without ostentation, he lived retired but always ready to work on works of art and piety He died in Milan.
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If it comes to a choice between smoking and talking, smoke. Dress well but without ostentation. Wear a raincoat, buttoned and belted, regardless of whether there is rain. Any revolver should be kept, until you need it, in the pocket of the coat.
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Funerals must be kept simple, and no ostentation is allowed. Preferably, the body should be buried without coffin or burial vault, although such is permitted if required by law. Generally, Muslims prefer to have separate cemeteries due to the specific preference for burial without coffin or vault.
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He was one of the first still life artists in Britain of great quality, following the tradition of arranged breakfasts, still lifes or cabinets of curiosities, where items of high value and ostentation were painted. Emil Kren & Daniel Marx. Collins at Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved Apr.
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Webster was by nature a revolutionary, seeking American independence from the cultural thralldom to Europe. To replace it, he sought to create a utopian America, cleansed of luxury and ostentation and the champion of freedom.Rollins (1980) p. 24 By 1781, Webster had an expansive view of the new nation.
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It was a clear expression of ostentation to Emperor Lothair III because the King of Denmark was a German vassal. The fleet formed by 650 boats (with 44 knights and 2 horses) attacked the rich Norwegian port city of Kungahälla (now Kungälv in Sweden).L. Fabiańczyk: Apostoł Pomorza, p. 70.
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Smith lived in moderation compared to other horsemen of the era, with the only outward display of ostentation being a diamond ring that he would wear to track engagements.McCarthy and McGill #1, p. 24 Smith also did not smoke and only drank an occasional glass of wine.Sloan and Luckman, p.
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On 12 June 1867, Sir Wilfrid Lawson died at Brayton, he was in his 71st year. In accordance with his wishes the funeral was conducted by his lifelong friend, the Rev. Professor Kirk of Edinburgh, without ostentation or parade. The funeral procession numbered four simple mourning carriages, containing family and servants.
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Domingo Aldunate is a successful old-fashioned businessman. He lives in a time of ostentation, therefore, Domingo has wanted to give everything to his children: cell phones, cars, trips, etc., thus satisfying all their needs. Domingo feels guilty, like many parents, for not being present at home due to his work.
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Due to its rise after the second evolution of sertanejo (Romantic Sertanejo), this style does not come with regional lyrics and situations lived by rural people (like in Sertanejo roots). Usually, the lyrics talk about situations that ordinarily occur in the lives of young people, having a strong appeal towards themes of betrayal, drunkenness, ostentation.
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The first was considered a "root" standard, a concern for precedence and origin. The second, a "source", a concern for empiricism. The third, a "use", a concern for the consequence and pragmatic utility of a standard. These three fa were used by the Mohists to both promote social welfare and denounce ostentation or wasteful spending.
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Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. In 1988, the Government repealed the Public Ostentation Law of 1938 () and the police received orders not to harass LGBT people. In a 1988 interview with Galician television, Castro criticized the rigid attitudes that had prevailed towards homosexuality. Toward the end of the 1980s, literature with gay subject matter began to re- emerge.
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Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, 1976 edition, sense 6, [Slang, orig., homosexual jargon, Americanism] banality, mediocrity, artifice, ostentation, etc. so extreme as to amuse or have a perversely sophisticated appeal The American writer Susan Sontag's essay Notes on "Camp" (1964) emphasized its key elements as: "artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness, and shocking excess".
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This is a playful modification of the expression "Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better," which Rosecrans may have read in Charles Dickens's 1861 novel, Great Expectations, chapter 18. The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs lists examples of this expression, which means "Tenacity and quietness of manner are preferable to ostentation," dating from 1709.
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"Learn girls of Quito, from your fellow countrywoman, [to prefer] holiness over beauty, virtues over ostentation."Rojas Sermón, quoted in Morgan, Spanish American Saints, p. 104. The sermon became a key document in the long process to establish her saintliness, beatification (1853), and final canonization (1950). The Friars Minor claimed Paredes as a saint of the Franciscan Order.
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In 1973, she was added to the International Best Dressed List for "outstanding example of elegance without ostentation", and was elevated to the Best-Dressed Hall of Fame in 1975. She has been noted for her style and taste in both fashion and decorating. Countess Brandolini d'Adda's husband died at the age of eighty-five in 2005.
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Miss Griffith found a congenial atmosphere in the church work into which she entered with a quiet zeal which characterised all of her life. She never sought pre-eminence, but her work was marked by practicality and an absence of ostentation. The spectacular did not appeal to her. Her judgment was sound, while she was not at all obstinate.
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In Why Come Ye nat to Courte? there is no attempt at disguise. The wonder is not that Skelton had to seek sanctuary, but that he had any opportunity of doing so. He rails at Wolsey's ostentation, at his almost royal authority, his overbearing manner to suitors high and low, and taunts him with his mean extraction.
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Peter Kid originally had a tablestone inscription much like that of John Blackadder. This was replaced in 2014 by an upright stone. A faithful, holy pastor here lies hid— One of a thousand — Mr Peter Kid: Firm as a stone, but of a heart contrite, A wrestling, praying, weeping Israelite. A powerful preacher, far from ostentation, A son of thunder and of consolation.
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Towards the middle and the end of his reign, the centre for the King's religious observances was usually the Chapelle Royale at Versailles. Ostentation was a distinguishing feature of daily Mass, annual celebrations, such as those of Holy Week, and special ceremonies. Louis established the Paris Foreign Missions Society, but his informal alliance with the Ottoman Empire was criticised for undermining Christendom.
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Calormenes are described as dark-skinned, with the men mostly bearded. Flowing robes, turbans and wooden shoes with an upturned point at the toe are common items of clothing, and the preferred weapon is the scimitar. Lavish palaces are present in the Calormene capital Tashbaan. The overall leitmotif of Calormene culture is portrayed as ornate to the point of ostentation.
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Because followers turned over all of their profits to Father Divine, he was able to build several expansions on the house. He even bought an expensive Cadillac when neighbors complained about his noisy Hudson automobile. Father Divine's ostentation annoyed the middle-class residents. Excess traffic that Father Divine attracted made him unpopular even to businesses he patronized with large cash purchases.
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Djibril Diop Mambéty's earliest film, a short entitled Contras'city (1968), highlighted the contrasts of cosmopolitanism and unrestrained ostentation in Dakar's baroque architecture against the modest, everyday lives of the Senegalese. Mambéty's recurrent theme of hybridity—the blending of elements from precolonial Africa and the colonial West in a neocolonial African context--is already evident in Contras'city, which is considered Africa's first comedy film.
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The world of Final Fantasy VIII is predominantly occupied by humans. Another prominent race is the "Shumi", a small tribe of creatures with yellow skin and large arms. The tribe lives in an underground village on the Trabian continent. The Shumi frown upon showing off their large hands; NORG, the owner of Balamb Garden, was exiled from the tribe for his ostentation.
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Soho House membership policies focus on creativity "above net worth and job titles" with "studied resistance to ostentation...[and] cultivated status signifiers," and favour moral values over financial success ("several execs were banned because they were thought to be abusive to their assistants") In June 2015, Soho House had over 50,000 members and a global waiting list of over 30,000.
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Noverre's Lettres sur la danse (1760) called for dramatic effect over acrobatic ostentation; Noverre was himself influenced by the operas of Rameau and the acting style of David Garrick. The considerable quantity of ballet in Orfeo ed Euridice is thought to be due to his influence. Jommelli himself was noted for his blending of all aspects of the production: ballet, staging, and audience.
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Francine and Sterling "adored each other," a friend of theirs later wrote, and shared a taste for "great comfort without ostentation, good food and ... vintage Bordeaux." Francine and Sterling raced horses in the United States and Europe. In 1930, they purchased forty-five acres in Normandy to establish a horse farm, in addition to building a large horse farm in Upperville, Virginia. Francine Clark died in 1960.
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Worn for summer festivals, it is made with luminous white cloth and a highly embroidered shirt. The sash has bright colours and the waistcoat has silver button work: 14 or 24 buttons, depending on the man's wealth. Lastly, the most modern outfit that disappeared only quite recently, was worn by the elderly. All signs of ostentation have been suppressed here: there is no button work or adornments.
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Saylesville Friends Meeting was founded by religious refugees who came to live at the very edge of the British empire. The meetinghouse's architecture is uniformly plain, with nothing ornate, in keeping with a Quaker dislike of religious ostentation. Quaker unprogrammed worship has no pastor and anyone may be moved to speak. For this reason the meeting room's benches are placed in roughly a square arrangement.
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She also wrote "My God and Father while I stray", 1834, in the same collection. Elliott was the author of Hymns for a week, 1837, 40th thousand, 1871; Hours of Sorrow, 1836 and many later editions, Poems by C. E., 1863. An invalid for many years, her life was filled with deeds of beneficence. She shrank from everything ostentation, nearly all her books having been issued anonymously.
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His will of 1720 is held by the British National Archives at Kew and left his estate principally to his wife Dame Mary Hechstetter and children with legacies of £200 to Christchurch Hospital and £300 to his cousin John Lister. He directed that his body be buried in the vault of the chapel of St Arnold's without any "pompous ostentation".Will of Sir David Hechstetter of Edmonton, Middlesex. National Archives.
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He was a man of uncommon meekness and modesty. No ambition for professional or political distinction beset him. Retiring in his feelings, averse to all ostentation, he abandoned the law, a profession regarded as the common highway to distinction; instead, he took a course of life which best agreed with his peaceful disposition: the acquirement of knowledge. The consciousness that he was useful satisfied all his worldly aspirations.
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Lisbon, began to prosper, with ships returning directly from the colonies of the Azores, Madeira and Brazil, while trading houses began to relocate to the capital. But, even as the wealth arrived in Lisbon and Lagos, the ostentation was widely on display in the royal residences.David Birmingham (2003), p. 30 King Sebastian, obsessed with his plans for a great crusade against the Kingdom of Fez, assembled a huge fleet in Lagos in 1578.
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Within the discourse on ostentation, Matthew presents an example of correct prayer. Luke places this in a different context. The Lord's prayer (6:9–13) contains parallels to .Clontz, T.E. & J., The Comprehensive New Testament with complete textual variant mapping and references for the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, Josephus, Nag Hammadi Library, Pseudepigrapha, Apocrypha, Plato, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Talmud, Old Testament, Patristic Writings, Dhammapada, Tacitus, Epic of Gilgamesh, Cornerstone, 2008, p.
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He is the one who knows that the same soul in him is in everyone, is in all things, pervading within and without, something that can be felt but not reasoned. He is the one who is free from malice, who fulfills his nature, is not driven by cravings for worldly objects or desire or delusions. He is the one who lives a life untouched by spite, ostentation, pride or the need to impress others.
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In appearance he was described unkindly by Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford as a fat, red-faced man, dressed in a plain black suit, who looked more than a merchant at Leadenhall Market than a bishop.Wedgwood, C. V. Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford Jonathan Cape London 1961 As Strafford's biographer points out,Wedgwood, p. 158 this plainness and lack of ostentation is surely to the Archbishop's credit, as showing a proper Christian humility.
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Patrimonio Arquitectónico Marplatense The style raised some criticism, mostly because the overlapping of rooms and spaces on a reduced area.Sáez, p. 301 This characteristic, however, adds contextual value to the townscape where the chalets are homogeneously grouped, usually semi-detached.Una parte en el todo ciudadano: El Contextualismo La Nación, 25 April 2001 Architect and researcher Javier Sáez describes this type of house as one of "domestic ostentation" of the "home of your dreams".
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He became disenchanted with Berlin after continually seeing decadent ostentation and luxury existing alongside desperate unemployment. The wealthy classes were moving more to the political right and the poor to the left. "Emotion had long since begun to displace reason," he said. As a result of the changing political climate, along with the fact that sound films had arrived in Europe, which was technically unprepared to produce their own, film production throughout Europe slowed dramatically.
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The incident gave a fillip to the Klan's recruitment efforts but increased Stephenson's animosity toward Evans, whom he blamed for the incident. Stephenson's proclivity for ostentation irritated Evans. Although Stephenson left his official Klan position after a short tenure, the Klan's northern supporters, under his leadership, had begun to rival those in the South. He had been a skilled campaigner and demagogue, and he remained a well-known advocate of the Klan's platforms after resigning.
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These races were not contested on tracks; they could be set anywhere the race organizers decided to set them. William Gibbons was a modest man who only raced horses he'd bred himself, and he never bet. He disliked ostentation, but the public demand for Fashion's match races was huge and he gave in to their pressure more than once. It is said that 70,000 people showed up for the match between Boston and Fashion.
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Pronkstilleven (pronk still life or ostentatious still life) is a type of banquet piece whose distinguishing feature is a quality of ostentation and splendor. These still lifes usually depict one or more especially precious objects. Although the term is a post-17th century invention, this type is characteristic of the second half of the seventeenth century. It was developed in the 1640s in Antwerp from where it spread quickly to the Dutch Republic.
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In 2014, Silk and his wife, Diana (who also knew Siegfried Sassoon well), appeared on the BBC programme Countryfile in a feature on Sassoon's residence at Heytesbury."How Warminster war poet's cricket thrived", This is Wiltshire, 28 February 2014. Accessed 6 March 2014. The cricket writer David Foot likened Silk to Sassoon, describing him as "a gentle, rounded, civilised man, a scholar without ostentation, literate, a lover of poetry and someone with a similar sense of quiet fun".
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The figures are many. The > canvas will immediately attracts to itself for what is spontaneous, simple, > large, well thought out. ... nor caricature, nor ostentation, nor > charlatanism, nor adherence to the in voices that call him to join the > crowd, nor looking for cheap tricks, nothing theatrical: the natural > observed calmly, without fever and without dismay, by a man sure of himself. > He did not give his picture a pompous title, bit simply called it: Studio > dal Vero.
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The opening was attended by Eleanor Roosevelt and the Soviet ambassador. It played for 122 performances in New York before going on the road, exceeding the low expectations. It had the longest run of any Chekhov play in the U.S. and the longest run of this particular play anywhere up to that point. Cornell is said to have played Masha with a nobility of spirit without ostentation, and that she found the wit in her role.
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For his success, Luís Manuel was named ambassador extraordinary to the court of Louis XIV, his credentials accepted on 26 March 1714. He lived in France for seven years in great ostentation, with the high nobility.Carlos Melo Bento (2008), p.59 He arrived in Paris on 18 August 1715, in triumphal parade, with five magnificent coaches, distributing 10,000 silver coins that he ordered smite (in commemoration of his success), in addition to 200 pieces of gold.
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Gabriel's design was itself influenced by the palazzi on the Campidoglio in Rome by Michelangelo (d.1564). Both main façades of Easton Neston are of simple design, devoid of ostentation. The rectangular house comprises three principal floors. The lowest is a rusticated basement, above ground level, with the two floors above appearing to have equal value—nine bays divided by Composite pilasters, each bay containing a tall, slim sash window of the same height on each floor.
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In 1889 he was appointed Governor of Victoria (and additionally a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George), where he served until 1895. His appointment came amid a general stylistic change in colonial governors. Reflecting "Britain's more flamboyant pride in Empire, Australian colonial governors began to display a new colour and ostentation". Increased interest in Empire had spurred the appearance of young and wealthy aristocrats in place of previous career administrators.
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Greed, desire for possessions, wealth and ostentation are considered disgraceful ("Yemiku" Circassian:ЕмыкӀу) by the Xabze code. In accordance with Xabze, hospitality was and is particularly pronounced among the Circassians. A guest is not only a guest of the host family, but equally a guest of the whole village and clan. Even enemies are regarded as guests if they enter the home and being hospitable to them as one would with any other guest is a sacred duty.
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Its simple facades, with no decoration, are uncommonly utilitarian, with a lack of ostentation typical of the period of its construction. The principal entrance, across the southeastern portal to the elevated Terreiro da Fonte, is made from two steps. The stone patio has vestiges of two tombs, while the roof is covered in cork. In the centre wall, the cut backrests are decorated with pebbles and ceramic fragments, with a conch-like arched niche, decorated with ceramic fragments.
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He exposes their greed and ignorance, the ostentation of the bishops and the common practice of simony, taking care to explain the accusations do not include all and that he writes in defence of the church. He repeatedly, indirectly hits at Wolsey in this satire. Speke, Parrot has only been preserved in a fragmentary form, and is very obscure. It was apparently composed at different times, but in the latter part of the composition he openly attacks Wolsey.
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There are contrasting views on the level of compensation given to ministers relative to the religious community. There is often an expectation that they and their families will shun ostentation. However, there are situations where they are well rewarded for successfully attracting people to their religious community or enhancing the status or power of the community. The ordination of women has increasingly become accepted within many global religious faith groups, with some women now holding the most senior positions in these organizational hierarchies.
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Wanderone was known for ostentation, self- aggrandizement, tall tales, fast talk, and entertaining banter. He was even publicly recognized by famed boaster Muhammad Ali as better at boasting. His critical biographer, R.A. Dyer, documents that Wanderone completely fabricated a "here-by-fate" tale about a car wreck which brought the player to Little Egypt; it was a tale that Wanderone encouraged to be spread and further embellished in his autobiography to lend an air of the mystical to his public persona.Dyer (2003), pp.
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Illustration from Compendio di revelatione, 1496, by Savonarola In addition to Fra Angelico, Antonino Pierozzi and Fra Bartolomeo, San Marco was the home from 1489 onwards of the friar Girolamo Savonarola. Having become prior of the convent, the latter unleashed a fierce campaign against the Florentines’ morals and their ostentation of luxury. He was to fall foul of the court of Pope Alexander VI Borgia and ended his life burnt at the stake in front of the Palazzo della Signoria in 1498.
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He established the Order of the Liberator on 14 September 1880, which was the highest distinction of Venezuela and was appointed for services to the country, outstanding merit and benefits made to the community. "Gloria al Bravo Pueblo" (Glory to the Brave People) was adopted as Venezuela's national anthem by Guzmán on 25 May 1881. In the elections of 1883 General Joaquín Crespo, one of his friends, was declared president, and Guzmán became ambassador to France, living with great ostentation in Paris.
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Today the Palazzo Labia is the sole remaining example of this ostentation. It is the members of the Labia family of the mid 18th century to whom the palazzo owes its notability today, it was inhabited by two brothers with their wives, children and mother. The brothers Angelo Maria Labia and Paolo Antonio Labia employed Tiepolo at the height of his powers to decorate the ballroom. Employing Tiepolo seems to have been the most remarkable thing the brothers ever achieved.
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This approach remained popular well into the Renaissance. The result was a society of writers who did not observe practical decorum in their letters. Vives warns that it is easy for a writer to slip into "... impudence or arrogance or loquacity or ostentation or cunning or pedantic affectation or excessive and parasitical flattery or ignorance or imprudence." The current authority on De conscribendis epistolis, Charles Fantazzi traces this epistolary renaissance to the rediscovery of Cicero’s letters to Atticus, Quintus Cicero, and Brutus.
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The Lyman C. Josephs House, also known as Louisiana, is a historic home at 438 Walcott Avenue in Middletown, Rhode Island. Architect Clarence Luce designed the house, which was built in 1882, and is a well-preserved early example of the Shingle style. The house received architectural notice not long after its construction, but is more noted for its relatively modest size and lack of ostentation than the summer houses of nearby Newport. It was built for the Josephs family of Baltimore, Maryland.
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The early influence of such exhibitions was more in the creation of an enthusiasm for things Japanese instead of something more authentic. The result was exuberant Japanese decoration, the simplicity of Japanese design lost in the clutter of Victorian ostentation. During the twentieth century though, a number of now renowned architects visited Japan including Frank Lloyd Wright, Ralph Adams Cram, Richard Neutra and Antonin Raymond. These architects, among others, played significant roles in bringing the Japanese influence to Western modernism.
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These speeches were reported as :marked by great vigour" and showed that he had "a somewhat wide grasp of the political problems of the day". His obituary in the Northern Daily Mail notes that "Mr Gray's liberality to the work-people and those dependent on them will long be remembered. And withal it was characterised with the utmost un-ostentation. Mr Gray was always willing to support by his presence and purse every good effort – whether social, religious or athletic.
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"Camp aesthetics delights in impertinence." Camp opposes satisfaction and seeks to challenge. Camp art is related to—and often confused with—kitsch, and things with camp appeal may also be described as "cheesy". When the usage appeared in 1909, it denoted "ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical", or "effeminate" behavior, and by the middle of the 1970s, camp was defined by the college edition of Webster's New World Dictionary as "banality, mediocrity, artifice, [and] ostentation ... so extreme as to amuse or have a perversely sophisticated appeal".
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Jesus says they will be rewarded with "...a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life." (30) and then repeats that the first will be last and the last first. See also the Beatitudes and Discourse on ostentation#Materialism. The reference to persecution has been interpreted by some scholars as Mark trying to bolster the faith of his audience, perhaps victims of a persecution themselves.
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Critics complain that de Valera's duplicity and betrayal of the Treaty process and his rejection of agreed upon democratic procedures led to civil war and nearly destroyed Ireland at birth. Liberals decry his conservative social policies and his close relationship with the Catholic bishops. Bill Kissane writes that his devout Catholicism, his rejection of material ostentation, his determination to revive the Irish language, and his inability to comprehend Protestant Ulster's fears of Catholic domination make him a representative of his generation in southern Ireland.
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Zuckermann's religious attitude was strictly Orthodox. Twice a day he attended the synagogue maintained by him in the house which he had inherited from his father, although he lived in the seminary building, where daily services were held in the chapel. He never married; and while genial and kindly in nature, he was strongly opposed to anything savoring of ostentation. On his 70th birthday he fled from Breslau to escape all ovations, and in his will he forbade the delivering of a funeral address.
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In 1727 he set out for Italy, and spent three years at Rome, where his pictures were admired. But being of a reserved disposition, and without ostentation, he exhibited his works with reluctance, his studious and sober temper inclining him more to the pursuit of his art than to the advancement of his fortune. He intended to return to England, but when he reached Rennes, in Brittany, he found his work in such demand there that he decided to stay. He died in Rennes in 1734.
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In Sesto's "Parto, parto", she was perfect - she sang its striking divisions accurately but without ostentation, and she conveyed all of Sesto's "sincerity and faith". But her reading of Vitellia's "Non più di fiore" paled by comparison with that of Janet Baker in a recent staging at Covent Garden. Baker had sung the role with a "variety of colour and nuance" that von Stade could not equal. Von Stade might make a convincingly "scheming, nasty" Vitellia one day, but that day had not come yet.
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Critobulus also became a recurrent character within Socratic literature: according to the Apology and Phaedo, Critobulus offered to help Socrates pay his potential fine, and was present at the latter's execution.Plato, Phaedo, 59b Xenophon depicts Socrates as chastising the supposedly otherwise moderate Critobulus for kissing "the beautiful son of Alcibiades" in a conversation in his Memorabilia.Xenophon, Memorabilia, 1.3.8-10Xenophon, Symposium, 4.23-26 In the Telauges of Aeschines Socraticus, Socrates appears to have criticized Critobulus for his ignorance and ostentation, though only fragments of the dialogue survive.
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Paul chose Wilhelmina; she was very pretty, gay and exuberant, and the heir of the Russian throne was very delighted with her. Catherine wrote: On 27 June 1773 the Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt and her three daughters were awarded with the Order of Saint Catherine. Almost one month later, on 15 August, Princess Wilhelmina was accepted in the Orthodox faith with the name and title of Grand Duchess Natalia Alexeievna, and the next day her betrothal with the Tsarevich Paul took place amidst great ostentation.
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He died at Königsberg on 23 April 1796, leaving a considerable fortune. Hippel had extraordinary talents, rich in wit and fancy; but his was a character full of contrasts and contradictions. 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. In his Lebenslaufe nach aufsteigender Linie (1778–81) he intended to describe the lives of his father and grandfather, but he eventually confined himself to his own.
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He employed Stasicrates, "as this artist was famous for his innovations, which combined an exceptional degree of magnificence, audacity and ostentation", to design the pyre for Hephaestion.Plutarch 72.4 The pyre was sixty metres high, square in shape and built in stepped levels. The first level was decorated with two hundred and forty ships with golden prows, each of these adorned with armed figures with red banners filling the spaces between. On the second level were torches with snakes at the base, golden wreaths in the middle and at the top, flames surmounted by eagles.
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He chose his clothes carefully and was most particular about their quality and fitting. No longer did he wear socks knitted by his mother-in-law; and he was sufficiently fastidious to have his shoes made in Sydney and his shirts made by Myer in Melbourne. An elderly tailor in Martin Place made up his suits. Despite all this there was nothing "flash" about his clothing, with Chifley having "a deep rooted dislike of any degree of ostentation in his dressing" and being pleased when journalists were misled by the apparent age of his clothes.
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Vosz maintained an active interest in current events but apart from a few years (1860–1862) as City Councillor, played no active part in public affairs. He died after several years of intense suffering from neuralgia, which no medical treatment could alleviate, and was buried at the West Terrace Cemetery without ostentation, by Rev. J. Crawford Woods. His business had become the largest of its kind in Australia; his wife and sons had predeceased him and much of his considerable fortune was left to local charities, including £2,000 for the Home for Incurables.
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He went further, accusing those who argued for a fluid heaven of writing contrary to Holy Writ, and attacking Tycho Brahe for his religious beliefs as well as for his purported scientific errors. Broadening his polemic against all erroneous ideas, he attacked Ptotestantism, thereby drawing Kepler into his argument.W.G.L. Randles, The Unmaking of the Medieval Christian Cosmos, 1500–1760: From Solid Heavens to Boundless Æther, Routldge 2016 The language and tone of van Heeck's text was most intemperate. He berated the 'babbling new Philosophers' for their 'profane ignorance' and 'stupid ostentation' in departing from Aristotle.
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The Pullman Universalist Memorial Church was not erected by his brother George as a work of ostentation, but simply and purely as a memorial of the father and mother who believed in the doctrines of the Universalist church and who lived their religion among the people of this community many years ago. The exercises were concluded by the benediction by Acting Grand Chaplain Rev. Dunham. A celebratory dinner for the visiting Masons was served in the dining room of Masonic Hall, followed by dancing. The Masonic officials were entertained next door at the Orleans House.
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Narcoculture is a type of crime-related subculture that emerges in places where traffickers or other mafias have great power, and in consequence great cultural influence. Because of that influence their lives and exploits are often glamorised by the mass media and they are looked up to as role models by some young people. Subcultures similar to Mexican narco culture emerged in the United States during Prohibition, and in Colombia and Italy in the 1990s. These subcultures were characterized by extravagance, ostentation, hedonism, rural roots, honor, prestige, consumerism, power, utilitarianism, religiosity, and violence.
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Arcadian Movement. The arrival of the Shepaug Railroad in Washington in 1872 introduced rail service to New York City, which brought an influx of new visitors. Architect Ehrick Rossiter, then a recent graduate of the local Gunnery prep school, saw an opportunity to establish an understated alternative to Greenwich, Newport, and the ostentation favored by the nouveaux riches of the day. In collaboration with a coterie of wealthy New York patrons, Rossiter remade the Washington Green area into an idyllic summer colony, transforming it into an idealized version of the quintessential New England village.
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Thomas Mellon, founder of Mellon Financial Corporation and student at the University under Bruce, described him in his autobiography in the following way: > In Latin and Greek, mathematics and . . . philosophy, Doctor Bruce, the > president of the college, heard our recitations. He was one of a class of > men rarely met with: modest and retiring of manner, shunning notoriety, and > averse to anything that had the appearance of ostentation. He was highly > cultured in general literature, an extensive reader, liberal minded, and a > most accurate scholar in the several branches he professed.
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When twenty years of age he entered the Society of Jesus, and after completing his studies taught moral theology for twelve years at the College of Monterey, and subsequently filled the posts of master of novices for twelve more years, of rector for seventeen years, and of spiritual guide at Cordova for eleven years. As master of novices he had under his charge Francisco Suárez, the celebrated theologian. Alonso's characteristics in these offices were care, diligence, and charity. He was a religious of great piety and candour, hating all pride and ostentation.
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The use of conventional construction methods allows this structure to be built without ostentation, and also without exceeding budget requirements for such a floor space. Architect Kerstin Thompson has described the folded roof of the house as a’ translation of the plan, and a metaphor of an origami swan.’ The internal planning also follows the same procedure and produces the plan with the ceiling having the same geometry across the space. The significance of this structure is not the ceiling, but the roof itself, which cannot be seen from caves, but sometimes from the ridge.
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Parliament allowed Guy’s Hospital to spend up to £2,000 to perpetuate Guy’s ‘Generous and Charitable Intentions.’ In 1732, the administrators commissioned Peter Scheemakers, who created a striking brass and marble statue of Guy in the livery of the Stationers’ Company, notably wearing no wig, an indication of Guy’s lack of ostentation. The monument includes the motto Dare Quam Accipere (‘to give than to receive’), a relief of Christ Healing the Sick Man, and another relief of the Good Samaritan. It stands in the courtyard of the main forecourt of Guy’s Hospital.
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On the one side he laboured to restore unity to Eastern Orthodoxy, which was distracted by the varieties of opinion to which the Eutychian debates had given rise; and on the other to magnify the authority of his see by asserting its independence of Rome, and extending its influence over Alexandria and Antioch. In both respects he appears to have acted more in the spirit of a statesman than of a theologian; and in this relation the personal traits of liberality, courtliness, and ostentation, noticed by Suidas, are of worthy importance. cites Suidas, l.c.
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Tatum was independent-minded and generous with his time and money. He avoided joining the Musicians' Union for as long as he could since he felt that he would be restricted by having to follow its rules. He also disliked anything that drew attention to his blindness: he did not want to be physically led and so planned his independent walk to the piano in clubs if possible. People who met Tatum consistently "describe him as totally lacking in arrogance or ostentation" and as being gentlemanly in behavior.
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He attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council and played a significant role in drafting the Pastoral Constitution on The Church in the Modern World. On 16 November 1965, a few days before the Council ended, 40 bishops led by bishop Hélder Câmara met at night in the Catacombs of Domitilla outside Rome. They celebrated the Eucharist and signed a document under the title of the Pact of the Catacombs. In 13 points, they challenged their brother bishops to live lives of evangelical poverty: without honorific titles, privileges, and worldly ostentation.
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The kō-bon (the incense tray) became the tabako-bon, the incense burner evolved into a pot for tobacco embers and the incense pot became an ash tray. During the Edo period, weapons were frequently used as objects of ostentation, indicating wealth and social status. Since only samurai were allowed to carry weapons, an elaborate kiseru slung from the waist served a similar purpose. After the Meiji restoration and abolishing of the caste system, many craftsmen who previously decorated swords switched to designing kiserus and buckles for tobacco pouches.
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However, he arrived in Australia ill-informed about the political aspects of federation, and his decision to call on William Lyne to form a caretaker government became known as the "Hopetoun Blunder". Lyne, who had campaigned against federation, had little support from the political establishment, and Hopetoun was forced to turn to Edmund Barton to serve as Australia's first prime minister. His relationship with Barton once in office was civil, although his interferences in political matters were not well- received. Hopetoun was popular with the general public, but developed a reputation for flamboyance and ostentation.
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The Jewish merchant Richard Stern, who had fought in the first world war, distributed a leaflet against the boycott and placed himself with ostentation with his Iron Cross near the SA-poster in front of his shop. The repression against Jewish businessmen took such an effect that the population avoided buying in these shops and the owners lost their means of existence. Jewish merchants tried to hold out against the pressure to have a compensation for their property. The newspapers were in succession stacked with announcements about failures and acquisitions of Jewish companies.
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Later in the republican life, the kullawas were reborn again as a dance of spinners and it became rather a ritual dance accompanying the rite of the signalman; centuries later it becomes a dance of expression of ostentation and economic power thanks to modest merchants dedicated to the spinning mill and the like, turning the costume even more pompous, including pearls, gold leaf, silver and gold threads. Currently the costumes are mere representations of that power and continue to be stylized according to the thinking and lifestyle of young people.
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May God make this act done only to satisfy Him, and may He keep us from vanity and ostentation." From Tunisia at the age of 32, Sidi Abdul-Rahman went to perform Hajj to Mecca, ending his initial travels in search of knowledge. After the Hajj he returned to his native Algeria after 20 years. It is said that while walking the streets of the Casbah of Algiers, he heard a young man recite verse 34:15 of the Qur'an: "...Eat from the provisions of your Lord and be grateful to Him.
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Controversial businessman, Mansur, owner of dairy companies and a bank, was known both for his aggressive style as for his taste for ostentation. He maintains a mansion in London, where sponsors a polo team, to which he provides thoroughbred horses of his own creation. To fulfill the wishes of a daughter, he commissioned from a renowned architect from São Paulo a dollhouse, worth 300 000 dollars, which was installed on his farm in Indaiatuba. In an attempt to save the Mesbla and Mappin, Mansur put companies ahead of the executive João Paulo Amaral.
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Day used changes in type sizes or fonts to distinguish Foxe's editorial insertions from texts of his sources.King, Book of Martyrs, 58. The resulting lavish folio filled with woodcuts was an expensive luxury item,The Protestant controversialist William Turner objected to the book's costliness: "not a few of the poor have complained about the great price of the book, who...because of poverty and the lack of means, cannot obtain godly books for themselves, while the rich, for the most part, obtain them out of ostentation, in order that they may seem godly".
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The Duchy of Gifhorn was a small, easily managed lordship, in which Duke Francis could indulge freely in his noble image of himself and attend to his princely representational duties. He had been impressed by such a lifestyle during his many years at the court of the Saxon Elector in Wittenberg. In 1525 he started to expand Gifhorn Castle into his royal Residenz. Courtly life was characterised by the ostentation of great princely courts; he served food and drink in expensive Venetian glasses, arranged knightly tournaments and royal hunts, employed a court jester and a court chancellor (Hofkanzler).
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Hugh was the first abbot of the Cistercian Beaulieu Abbey, which had originally been located at Faringdon in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), before he was selected for the see of Carlisle.Doubleday and Page History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2: Houses of Cistercian Monks: Abbey of Beaulieu In 1214 and 1216, Hugh was censured by the Chapter General of the Cistercian Order for the ostentation of his lifestyle.Moorman Church Life p. 276 He was accused of eating off silver plate, keeping a guard dog in his bedroom with a silver chain, and of too much revelry with earls and knights.
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Paulina is mentioned in Natural History by Pliny the Elder. Pliny the Elder mentions Paulina as an example of Roman ostentation for wearing a large share of her inheritance to a dinner party in the form of jewellery worth to the value of 50 million sesterces.Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 9.117 She would wear her jewels in her hair, round her neck, arms and fingers. The complaint of Pliny the Elder was made in the context of Rome spending enormous amounts for importing Ancient Tamil Nadu's 'useless' pepper and pearls, as worn by Paulina even around her shoes.
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The simple yet dignified gown is meant to convey the authority and solemn duty of the ordained or accredited lay preacher ministry as called by God to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus and preach the biblical Word of God, the bearer being a learned minister of the Word and teaching elder (presbyter) over the Church faithful. Worn over street clothes, traditionally a cassock but today more commonly a business suit with or without clerical collar, the gown eschews ostentation, obscuring individual grooming and concealing fashion preferences, and instead draws attention to the wearer's office and not the person.
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According to Henri Focillon, Gothic allowed German art "to define for the first time certain aspects of its native genius-a vigorous and emphatic conception of life and form, in which theatrical ostentation mingled with vehement emotional frankness."Focillon, 106 The Bamberg Horseman of the 1330s, in Bamberg Cathedral, is the oldest large post-antique standing stone equestrian statue; more medieval princely tomb monuments have survived from Germany than France or England. Romanesque and Early Gothic churches had wall paintings in local versions of international styles, of which few artists' names are known.Dodwell, Chapter 7 Foolish Virgins, Magdeburg Cathedral, c. 1250.
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Hisham died in 796 C.E. at the age of forty, after a rule of eight years.Roger Collins, Caliphs and Kings: Spain 796-1031, 30. He was a prototype of Umar II, and strove to establish the Islamic way of life, living simply and avoiding ostentation. He was a God-fearing man and was known for his impartial justice and sound administration. After his death, 'Abd Allah returned from exile and claimed Valencia and Suleiman claimed Tangiers against Hisham's son, al-Hakam I. Hisham was dubbed “the just.” Hisham was a model of righteousness and a loyal prince.
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No, that was too > slow, uncertain, painful. Morphine? Too many antidotes — too much > commonness, ostentation in that. Daturin? I did not like to ask how much of > that was certain... She finally stabs herself in the heart with a knife she finds in the lab. The author of the journal, Edgar Sands, panics, fearing that he will be blamed for the death, and attempts to destroy the body, > ...he went calmly to work, with an awful despair in his eyes, and cut the > shell of me — the husk I had left — to pieces; as a surgeon would, on a > table in the laboratory.
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He was personally wealthy and lived a refined life, but quietly and with little ostentation. A deeply religious man, he often read prayers and provided religious instruction to sailors under his command, and at least some of his associates believed that he cared little about the secular affairs of the world. Politically, he was a staunch Royalist in good favor with the Spanish royal family, but he rarely resided in Madrid because he disliked the pomp and circumstance of the royal court and the socializing it demanded. Because of his English mother, Cámara was sympathetic toward the United Kingdom.
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Following a private funeral service, at his own request 'plain without ostentation or parade',Darley, 1999, P.316 he was buried in the same vault as his wife and elder son. Within days of his father's death George Soane, left an annuity of £52 per annum, challenged Soane's will. Soane stated that he was left so little because 'his general misconduct and constant opposition to my wishes evinced in the general tenor of his life'. To his daughter-in-law Agnes he left £40 per annum 'not to be subject to the debts or control of her said husband'.
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Characteristic of the architecture to abound in Ponce contemporaneous to Castillo 34 is a profusion of aplique, and eclectic combination and juxtaposition of shapes, particularly curvilinear, and a general ostentation of articulation. Blas Silva was probably the most established of the "wedding-cake architects" and was thus sought after mostly by the "nouveau riche" of the period. Silva's houses are among the richest in Ponce, among which the Monsanto Residence stands put for its circular porches. Other buildings by Blas Silva include the Frau Residence and the Salazar- Candal Residence, both also listed in the NRHP.
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29 October 1987. Adapting the curves of the Art Nouveau to the persistent Neo-classicism of Puerto Rico, Silva succeeded in creating a movement in architecture which broke away from the traditional forms while remaining within them. The traditional continuous raised verandah along the front facade is broken up into two and twisted out of its usual linearity into the curved forms preserved today. Characteristic of the architecture to abound in Ponce contemporaneous to Castillo 34, for example, is a profusion of aplique, and eclectic combination and juxtaposition of shapes, particularly curvilinear, and a general ostentation of articulation.
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It is the unanimous testimony of the officers of the regiment that never did the humblest soldier, however great his delinquency, receive from Lieutenant Colonel Paine an unkind or ungentlemanly word. "Without ostentation and with great singleness of purpose he devoted himself to the welfare of his regiment and the good of the service. Conceding nothing to ambition, nothing to any personal consideration, he moved straight wherever duty led undeterred by censure and unmoved by applause anxious only to be right." Rarely has the service been blessed with an officer of so pure morals and so sincere a purpose.
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However, within British society this period is marked as an "inward" era – more commonly known as the Quietist period (a reference to early Christian Quietists).Kennedy, Thomas C. (2001) British Quakerism, 1860–1920: The Transformation of a Religious Community, Oxford University Press, p. 16. Influenced by Quietists such as Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon, Francois Fenelon, and Miguel de Molinos,Abbott, Margery Post, Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers), p. 290. the spiritual practices of nonviolence and inward nourishment resonated with Quaker testimony and significant numbers of Friends adopted plain dress and a "concern against ostentation".
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Furthermore, several Egyptologists point out that Roman historians such as Pliny the Elder and Frontinus (both around 70 A.D.) equally do not hesitate to ridicule the pyramids of Giza: Frontinus calls them "idle pyramids, containing the indispensable structures likewise to some of our abandoned aqueducts at Rome" and Pliny describes them as "the idle and foolish ostentation of royal wealth". Egyptologists clearly see politically and socially motivated intentions in these criticisms and it seems paradoxical that the use of these monuments was forgotten, but the names of their builders remained immortalized.William Gillian Waddell: Manetho (= The Loeb classical Library. Bd. 350).
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The place is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or a high degree of creative or technical achievement in New South Wales. Positioned in a rural landscape on the outskirts of the town, the Maitland Jewish Cemetery is a small regional burial ground that reflects the traditions of the Orthodox Jewish faith. A discreetly located site, the cemetery contains a number of modest monuments that demonstrates "that, in death, all are equal and ostentation is out of place". The layout, monument form and ornamentation suggest a deliberate observance to the traditions of the Orthodox Jewish faith.
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In 1936, Boulanger initiated a project to create the TPV (short for 'Très Petite Voiture' meaning 'very small car'), which became 2CV in 1948. His specification for the new model was characteristic of the man: The 2CV was known for its great capacity of work and its absence of ostentation. In 1947, the Citroën H Van was introduced – this utilitarian commercial van was sold until 1981. He died at Broût-Vernet, Allier, in a car crash in a Citroën Traction Avant on Sunday, 12 November 1950, while on the main road between Clermont-Ferrand (the home of Michelin) and Paris.
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Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno observe that Bacon shuns "knowledge that tendeth but to satisfaction" in favor of effective procedures."Even those that have sought knowledge for itself and not for benefit, or ostentation, or any practical enablement in the course of their life, have nevertheless propounded to themselves a wrong mark, namely, satisfaction, which men call truth, and not operation." Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature While the Baconian method disparages idols of the mind, its requirement for effective procedures compels it to adopt a credulous, submissive stance toward worldly power. :: Power confronts the individual as the universal, as the reason which informs reality.
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UniSA Magill Campus Murray had a reserved manner, at times giving the impression that he was cold in his outlook. However, this was not the case as Murray was in reality warm-hearted, broad-minded, and generous, always anxious to assist deserving causes so long as it could be done without ostentation. As chancellor of the university for 25 years, he was held in honour and affection by teaching staff and students alike. As a counsel Murray was not a dramatic pleader, but was clear and systematic in his presentation of technical cases, and masterly in the marshalling of his arguments, excelling in equity cases.
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Possibly, Lucas did not realize that two members of Scatterheart are producers/sound engineers, and therefore have access to high quality sound recording technology. Further consideration of the album led Adrian Mack of Georgia Straight to state: “First single “Beautiful” is both glamtastic and generally wonderful enough to give Nick Gilder a good case of the vapours, “More Than a Man” cheekily pushes Bowie’s “Fame” (David Bowie) in new and harder directions, and “Sons and Daughters of the Drum” takes 5,000-fingered Rick Wakeman keyboard ostentation and plunks it in the middle of a song you can actually hum along with (something Wakeman never quite figured out).
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Gold shoe plaques from the Iron Age Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave, Germany, BC. The Iron Age saw the development of anthropomorphic sculptures, such as the warrior of Hirschlanden, and the statue from the Glauberg, Germany. Hallstatt artists in the early Iron Age favored geometric, abstract designs perhaps influenced by trade links with the Classical world. The more elaborate and curvilinear La Tène style developed in Europe in the later Iron Age from a centre in the Rhine valley but it soon spread across the continent. The rich chieftain classes appear to have encouraged ostentation and Classical influences such as bronze drinking vessels attest to a new fashion for wine drinking.
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A ball in honor of the new Spanish Gonvernor-General of the Philippines, Fernando Miguel Bustamante is in progress. The guests assembled have come to the palace to offer gifts of welcome. To their consternation, he responds to their chorus of "Viva El Rey, Viva España, Viva El Governador Bustamante" with a harangue against lavishness and ostentation as well as bribery which he says could only lead to corruption. He reminds the people of the glory that is Spain and tells them to keep the trust of King Felipe V. The entrance of Fray Totanes posturing elicit sarcastic remarks from the governor causing embarrassment to the governor's wife, Luisa.
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Calvert was appointed Governor of Maryland in around 1720, sent to advance the interests of his Calvert relatives, who had recently regained control of the colony of Maryland which had been confiscated by the Crown following the events of the Glorious Revolution in 1688. Among the reasons for his appointment were his loyalty to the Crown, his desire to live permanently in Maryland, and above all else his presumed loyalty to the family interest. Calvert was a pragmatic man not given to ostentation. His opening speech to the Assembly was brief, inviting the delegates "to let time and my actions show" that his governorship would serve the interests of the colony.
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While in the last-named place, she completed the English Theological course with several elective studies, having charge of one or two churches all the time and preaching twice every Sunday during the three years. She says: "I never spent much time over the oft controverted question, 'Shall woman preach?' I thought the most satisfactory solution of the problem would be for woman quietly, without ostentation or controversy, to assume her place and let her work speak for itself." After five years of faithful, fruitful service in the Free Baptist Church, convictions of truth and duty caused her to sever ties and cast her lot with another church.
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Indeed, throughout his time in politics, Dashbalbar was the subject of numerous accusations and insinuations, all of which proved groundless. There were subtle insinuations from certain political groups opposed to Dashbalbar that he might somehow have been involved in Zorig’s murder, and one cynical journalist sought to accuse him of sexual harassment, admitting only later that she had made this accusation so as to increase sales of her newspaper, which indeed was sold out and reprinted that same day. However, the vast popular support which his personal integrity, his lack of ostentation, and his stand against corruption gained him meant that he became gradually more and more vulnerable to such attacks.
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Possibly the manuscript describing the nun's residence, erroneously called "Paula Maria" in the title, can't deserve full confidence, falling into exaggeration. It will have arisen as a result of the interest in the extramarital relationship of King John V, and of the fame that at the time was created about the ostentation that was an essential aspect of the image of the monarch and the nun. Certainly, the royal favorite couldn't fail to benefit herself from this wealth, the content of the text corresponding to the expectations of potential readers. Created myths in the first half of the 18th century will be at the origin of belief in Paula's oriental luxury.
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The informality of the style allowed for a fair amount of flexibility in design, and the final appearance attests to a successful blending of industrial function with architectural aesthetics. It borrows elements from classical architecture, evidenced by the formal decoration of the parapet and other features, however exhibits a level of restraint in its unadornment of wall surfaces and plain window details. It is a representative example of the trend to enhance the appearance of functional civil engineering structures with restrained decoration, common to many Board-designed buildings. The Pumping station illustrates the level of enhancement which could be achieved by architects, without resorting to ostentation or gaudiness.
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Meckler, Gordian II This first rebellion against Maximinus Thrax was unsuccessful, but by the end of 238 Gordian II's nephew would be recognised emperor by the whole Roman world as Gordian III. According to Edward Gibbon, in the first volume of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–89), "Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested to the variety of [Gordian's] inclinations; and from the productions that he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation."Quoted in "From the Editor. Ambition, Style and Sacrifices", History Today, June 2017, p. 3.
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On September 1, Călugăru joined Emil Dorian and Ury Benador in creating the Union of Jewish Writers. The inaugural meeting, held in Dorian's residence, was attended and poorly reviewed by Sebastian. His Journal calls the other participants "nonentities", and the gathering "a mixture of desperate failure, thundering mediocrity, old ambitions and troubles, [...] impudence and ostentation."Sebastian, p.611 Hunedoara Steel Foundry in 1952, around the time of Călugăru's visit Shortly afterward, as the PCR gained momentum with Soviet support, Călugăru was one of the ten authors to be instated or reinstated as members of the Romanian Writers' Society as replacements for some banned or fugitive former members who had been deemed pro-fascist.
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He succeeded in running Ulsterbus and Citybus profitably at a time when conventional wisdom said that public transport could never be run profitably. Unlike many managers at the time he eschewed ostentation—sharing the services of a secretary with his Chief Engineer, keeping filing to a minimum and carrying this emphasis on economic working throughout the organisation. In addition, Heubeck's tenure at Ulsterbus coincided with the height of The Troubles in Northern Ireland during the 1970s and 1980s, with public transport being a prime target of the Provisional IRA's bombing campaign. Heubeck was well-known at the time for personally boarding buses and removing hoax bombs himself to keep the buses running to schedule.
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The showing…they made… was a matter of pride to the townspeople." While some graduates remained in town, others made a difference in the wider world. Sally May Johnson studied at Simmons, graduated from the Massachusetts General Hospital School for Nurses and from Teachers College, Columbia, became Chief Nurse at the Army School of Nursing after serving in World War I, and later was an administrator at Mass. General. Speaking to the American Nurses Association, she described her childhood in "a little rural New England village, where there were space, clean air, glorious sunsets, starry heavens at night, always a beautiful landscape — a place where fine people lived nobly and without ostentation.
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At the height of the Empire's power, a 10,000 man army was stationed in the city, and Seku Amadu ordered the construction of six hundred madrasas to further the spread of Islam. Alcohol, tobacco, music and dancing were banned in accordance with Islamic law, while a social welfare system provided for widows and orphans. A strict interpretation of Islamic injunctions against ostentation led Amadu to order the Great Mosque of Djenné to be abandoned, and all future mosques were ordered built with low ceilings and without decoration or minarets. One of the most enduring accomplishments was a code regulating the use of the inland Niger delta region by Fula cattle herders and diverse farming communities.
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Boerescu however believes this verdict to be "only half right", since the writer continued to employ experimental devices long after 1989, while avoiding the "referential ostentation" of other writers. Appreciation of Gârbea's work was also expressed among older critics and Gârbea's own mentors. Nicolae Manolescu held Gârbea's contribution in high esteem, an, in his 2008 synthesis of Romanian literary history, spoke of him as having "indisputably, the fabric of a dramatist". Bogdan Creţu, "Eşecul lui Nicolae Manolescu" (II) , in Cuvântul, Nr. 383 In Nelega's view, Gârbea, "one of the truly alive writers of his time", was among the few debuting local playwrights to have their works staged by prominent Romanian directors—Alexandru Darie, Alexandru Hausvater and Gavril Pinte.
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"I see plainly ... that, so long as this kingdom continues popish, they are not a people for the Crown of England to be confident of", he wrote. Although staunchly Protestant, he showed no desire to persecute Catholics: as J.P. Kenyon remarks, it was understood that so long as Catholics remained the great majority of the population, there would have to be a much larger degree of toleration than was necessary in England.Kenyon, J.P. The Popish Plot, Phoenix Press reissue (2000), p. 224 He was prepared to give tacit recognition to the Catholic hierarchy, and even gave an interview to Archbishop Thomas Fleming of Dublin, whose homely face, plain dress and lack of ostentation made a poor impression on him.
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Interpreters also say Jesus could be referred to by the name "sun of righteousness" because he is considered, in New Testament scripture, to be perfectly righteous and without sin. Jesus condemning hypocrisy among Pharisees, which could manifest itself in wearing long tassels. James Tissot's painting "Woe unto You, Scribes and Pharisees." also has Jesus saying: The common interpretation of this statement is that Jesus thereby explained that one should not do the commands of God in such a way as to be seen as more righteous and more zealous by others, similar to teachings found in the Discourse on ostentation. In this case, this motivation was evident in the Pharisees to whom he spoke.
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In creating the film, John Sayles drew on original research of Celtic island lore and language, including the Blasket memoirs, a series of vernacular memoirs collected in the 1920s and '30s from residents of the Great Blasket, an island off the Kerry coast evacuated by the Irish government in 1953 and made a national park in 1989. "Veteran cinematographer Haskell Wexler gives 'The Secret of Roan Inish' an effortlessly elemental look. Without ostentation or self-consciousness, the film immerses you in the spume, fog and glare of the seaside life, with its temporal mysteries and its organic metamorphoses. Mason Daring's spare, traditional Irish score adds one more layer of melancholy atmosphere," noted Scott Rosenberg of SFGate.
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Te place selected is one frequented by the middle class, where she feels she will he free from the tormenting attentions of the male sex that her beauty has induced in the past. She arrives without ostentation accompanied only by her maid, but her extreme pulchritude and graceful bearing soon enraptured the male contingent of the place to the jealous rage of the other women folks who find themselves deserted. She cannot stir but what there is a score of admirers present. A walk on the beach, a stroll through the park is invariably attended by a regiment of gallants, until to her they become positive pests, is destined to pass time in the seclusion of her room.
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Carpentier was an admirer of the elegance and wit in the work of satirical French writers and artists of the eighteenth century, and often employed grotesques in his descriptions to ridicule the ostentation of colonial aristocracy. Examples include Ti Noel's comparison of wax heads at a barber's shop to white men's heads being served at a banquet, or the portrayal of the decadence of Mademoiselle Floridor, a fourth-rate actress who performs for slaves as an outlet for her desire to act. Carpentier further satirizes the pomp of those in power through a series of details of protocol and ceremony whose cumulative effects ridicule the object of description, as is the case with Henri Christophe's chambers.
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For females this involves wearing ordinary dress that fulfills the Islamic condition of public dress with hands and face uncovered;. Other prohibitions include refraining from clipping the nails, shaving any part of the body, having sexual relations; using perfumes, damaging plants, killing animals, covering head (for men) or the face and hands (for women); getting married; or carrying weapons. The Ihram is meant to show equality of all pilgrims in front of God, with no difference between the rich and the poor. Donning such unsewn white garments entirely is believed to distance man from material ostentation, and engross him in a world of purity and spirituality, since clothes are believed to show individuality and distinction and create superficial barriers that separate individuals.
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The Diocese of West Virginia was created in 1877 to correspond to the new state created during the Civil War. The Diocese of Southern Virginia was created in 1892, with the understanding that a further division would soon occur (and the Diocese of Southwest Virginia was created after bishop Whittle's death). In 1897, Robert Atkinson Gibson was elected as bishop Whittle's Coadjutor with right of succession (the previous assistants having moved to the Diocese of Southern Virginia or died) and soon consecrated. Although Bishop Whittle was known for his personal rectitude and lack of ostentation, by the end of his episcopate, Jim Crow laws had restricted the participation of African-American Episcopalians within the diocese, and African-American Virginians within the Commonwealth.
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Hurtado is classified with the “Intermediate Generation,” those artists who came into their own after the Generación de la Ruptura . According to historian Sergio Fernández, “He brings together all the qualities of the great Mexican painters but… if he is different it is because he hardly seems to be there; there is no ostentation nor desperate back-slapping, nor an irritating desire for applause.” Alfonso de Neuvillate wrote that “The painting of Rodolfo Hurtado is both feeling and testament, and more than the first than the second, it is also a nocturnal labyrinth interpreted in the light of day.” His later works showed influence from the work of Paul Klee, Jean Dubuffte and Han Hartung, as well as Rufino Tamayo.
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Blended with methods of modern social sciences, some key thinkers of Brotherhood have also contemplated the Islamic perspective on bureaucratic effectiveness, mapping out solutions to problems of formalism and irresponsiveness to public concerns in public administration, which pertains to the pro-democratic tenets of Muslim Brotherhood. Such variations of thoughts have also purportedly negated the realities of contemporary Muslim countries as their authors have proclaimed. On the issue of women and gender the Muslim Brotherhood interprets Islam conservatively. Its founder called for "a campaign against ostentation in dress and loose behavior", "segregation of male and female students", a separate curriculum for girls, and "the prohibition of dancing and other such pastimes ... ""Toward the Light" in Five Tracts of Hasan Al-Banna, trans.
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By 1795, he was elected to the United States Senate where he served as a Federalist and Nationalist while it was originally at Philadelphia, but he left for England in 1801 when his wife had taken ill. He was an active supporter of John Adams and when Adams was elected President, Bingham served as the Senate's President pro tempore in the Fourth Congress. On March 4, 1797, with the start of the Fifth Congress he administered the oath of office to Vice President Thomas Jefferson.The proceedings of the Senate at a session specially called on March 4, 1797, Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873 He was criticized by Jeffersonian politicians for "extravagance, ostentation and dissipation".
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Although Ramadan is a month of fasting for Muslims in Egypt, it is usually a time when Egyptians pay a lot of attention to food variety and richness, since breaking the fast is a family affair, often with entire extended families meeting at the table just after sunset. There are several desserts served almost exclusively during Ramadan, such as kunafa () and qatayef (). In this month, many Egyptians prepare a special table for the poor or passers-by, usually in a tent in the street, called Ma'edet Rahman (, ), which literally translates to "Table of the Merciful", referring to one of the 99 names of God in Islam. These may be fairly simple or quite lavish, depending on the wealth and ostentation of the provider.
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As a contemporary said of him, "His philanthropy knew no bounds or limits, but was constantly active and progressive, without ostentation." He thus contributed money to such myriad charities as the Chicago Relief and Aid Society, the Presbyterian Hospital, the Chicago Literary Club, the Chicago Historical Society, the Nursery and Hald Orphan Asylum; St. Luke's Free Hospital; the Chicago Bible Society; Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York, Illinois Training School for Nurses; Old Peoples' Home of Chicago; Chicago Home of the Friendless. He was central in the 1882 founding of the Chicago Manual Training School, later part of the high school of the University of Chicago. A bequest of $50,000 to this institution founded a John Crerar Prize, to be given to the best student of every graduating class.
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The neighborhood thrives on local residents, day-trippers, party animals, office and law firm employees and many expatriates. Thanks to the infrastructure works executed by the municipality of Beirut (sidewalks, roads, lighting) and the fact that many shops, cafes and bars are open until late in the night, Badaro has become, especially after 2014, one of Beirut's most secure districts. Unlike other areas of Beirut such as Gemmayzeh or Mar Mikhael, the rebirth of Badaro is not a process of " gentrification " ; The area, since the middle of last century, is a middle to upper-class neighbourhood albeit discreet and quiet, reflecting its history and the fact that the Syrian Christian bourgeoisie's reputation for discretion contrasts with the Lebanese taste for ostentation. At the Southwest end of Badaro, the military hospital sector is an enclave.
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Jevons held that despite the desirability of reducing coal consumption, the outlook for implementing significant constraints was dim. Still, the UK's prosperity should at least be seen as imposing responsibilities on the current generation. In particular, Jevons proposed applying the current wealth to righting social ills and to creating a more just society: > "We must begin to allow that we can do today what we cannot so well do > tomorrow.... > "Reflection will show that we ought not to think of interfering with the > free use of the material wealth which Providence has placed at our disposal, > but that our duties wholly consist in the earnest and wise application of > it. We may spend it on the one hand in increased luxury and ostentation and > corruption, and we shall be blamed.
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At first, he was used to wear gold and gems on his clothes, having belts composed of gold and gems and elegantly jeweled purses, linens covered with red metal and golden sacs hemmed with gold and all of the most precious fabrics including all of silk. But all of this was but fleeting ostentation from the beginning and beneath he wore a hairshirt next to his flesh and, as he proceeded to perfection, he gave the ornaments for the needs of the poor. Then you would see him, whom you had once seen gleaming with the weight of the gold and gems that covered him, go covered in the vilest clothing with a rope for a belt." Besides Eligius's self-mortification, Dado recalled his propensity for weeping, "For he had the great grace of tears.
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The William K. Vanderbilt House or the Petit Chateau in 1886, 660 Fifth Avenue, New York City Richard Morris Hunt (October 31, 1827 – July 31, 1895) was an American architect of the nineteenth century and an eminent figure in the history of American architecture. He helped shape New York City with his designs for the 1902 entrance façade and Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), and many Fifth Avenue mansions since destroyed. Hunt is also renowned for his Biltmore Estate, America's largest private house, near Asheville, North Carolina, and for his elaborate summer cottages in Newport, Rhode Island, which set a new standard of ostentation for the social elite and the newly-minted millionaires of the Gilded Age.
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Grigorieva gained attention as a songwriter in 2006, after the song that she wrote, "Un día llegará" (Translated from Spanish: A Day Will Come), became popular on the Josh Groban album, Awake. Las Vegas Review-Journal highlighted "Un día llegará" in particular in a review of Groban's album Awake, commenting, "Groban's most effective tunes tend to be his most unadorned, when he favors understatement over ostentation, such as on the flickering piano ballad 'Lullaby' or the tremulous slow burn of 'Un día llegará,' with its touches of flamenco guitar." Prior to singing "Un día llegará" at a 2007 live performance, the song was "endorsed as a beauty" by Groban, in a statement to his fans. In a review of Awake, the Philippine Daily Inquirer called "Un día llegará" an "outstanding track".
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The headquarters of construction company Higgins Group plcHiggins Group website on Langston Road made a significant addition to the townscape in 2005. Following the 2002 ITV1 TV series Essex Wives, journalists used the phrase "golden triangle" to describe the three towns of Loughton, Chigwell, and Buckhurst Hill, for their general affluence and the up-front ostentation of some of their inhabitants. When the German bombs landed in The Drive on 26 July 1940 killing two people, the German air force were not aiming for The Drive, their target was Loughton Station and the sidings, indeed the station was damaged probably from the same stick of bombs that landed in The Drive with such sad consequences. A bomb landed at the station damaging part of the track, platform and some seating area.
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Several Roman holidays commemorated a family's dead ancestors, including the Parentalia, held February 13 through 21, to honor the family's ancestors; and the Feast of the Lemures, held on May 9, 11, and 13, in which ghosts (larvae) were feared to be active, and the pater familias sought to appease them with offerings of beans. The Romans prohibited cremation or inhumation within the sacred boundary of the city (pomerium), for both religious and civil reasons, so that the priests might not be contaminated by touching a dead body, and that houses would not be endangered by funeral fires. Restrictions on the length, ostentation, expense of, and behaviour during funerals and mourning gradually were enacted by a variety of lawmakers. Often the pomp and length of rites could be politically or socially motivated to advertise or aggrandise a particular kin group in Roman society.
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Jurga Zilinskiene MBE (Lithuanian: Jurga Žilinskienė, born 2 August 1976) is an entrepreneur, programmer and founder of Guildhawk, formerly Today Translations,The Guardian – How to translate hope into reality, 14 June 2004 a global translation company. A summation in City AM described Zilinskiene as: '...one hell of a formidable businesswoman... a Lithuanian-born cross between Richard Branson and Margaret Thatcher... combined perhaps with shades of Warren Buffett, whose frugality and dislike of shopping and ostentation she shares'.City AM – Investment bank wannabe lays his soul bare at Goldman altar, 25 January 2010 Zilinskiene has been interviewed in many national newspapers about Guildhawk and her unconventional approach to business. She has appeared in the Financial Times,Financial Times – Suppliers to the Square Mile, 22 March 2011 the Independent on Sunday, Daily TelegraphDaily Telegraph – Starting out, 26 June 2007 and the business website, Growing Business.
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A four- manual organ was built in Blenheim Palace in 1891 by the Willis company, for example, and such things were symbols of ostentation and opulence on the parts of their owners. But things changed in the 20th century with the advent of new technologies. Right at the start of the century the paper-roll playing mechanisms of the pianola were incorporated into residence organs, which had the side-effect of eliminating the profession of residence organist, requiring the operator to do no more than operate the organ stops and expression pedals (which, in its turn, was eliminated within a decade, that too being encoded onto the paper roll itself). Residence organs in the 1930s grew to encompass an even wider range of instruments with the advent of the electronic organ and (later) the analogue synthesizer as home organs.
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Contrary to popular belief, the majority of Sicily's nobility did not choose to have their mortal remains displayed for eternity in the Catacombe dei Cappuccini, but were buried quite conventionally in vaults beneath their family churches. It has been said, though, that "the funeral of a Sicilian aristocrat was one of the great moments of his life, and the luxury he had enjoyed in this life was to lead him into the next". Funerals became tremendous shows of wealth; a result of this ostentation was that the stone memorial slabs covering the burial vaults today provide an accurate barometer of the development of Baroque and marble inlay techniques at any specific time. For instance, those from the first half of the 17th century are of simple white marble decorated with an incised armorial bearing, name, date, etc.
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For the next thirty years, Bush hosted guests from the town, as well as her father's business and political acquaintances. She was also > ...the loving caretaker of the home; the hostess at her father's dinner > parties; the avid gardener, cultivating the flowers of the newly constructed > Conservatory near the house, managing the vegetable beds and fruit trees on > the property; the animal lover, tending to the cows and other farmyard > creatures, caring for the dogs and cats — particularly the cats — which > people left at her doorstep, knowing that each would be given a home. She "carried on her many charities without ostentation", encouraging and sometimes financing the early careers of young writers and artists. Although she was a "complete vegetarian", she offered guests main courses of fish, fowl or meat, as well as many vegetable choices.
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The marble memorial stone erected by the trustees of Gwyn's Institution in 1853 bears the following inscription: > This stone marks the grave of John Gwyn who died in Londonderry on the 1st > August, 1829 in the 74th year of his age. He was a native of Muff, but the > greater part of his life was spent in mercantile pursuits in the City of > Londonderry. Ever kind and benevolent, the gifts of his charity were > numerous, but dispensed without ostentation. The moral training of the young > was an object that he esteemed to be all important; and his last will proved > the sincerity of his desire to promote their welfare, the greater part of > his property, all of which had been amassed by his own industry was > bequeathed for the establishment and permanent support of a school where > orphans boys of all denominations are boarded, educated and apprenticed.
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He explained that, in writing the libretto for Zaira, his position in relation to Voltaire's tragedy was rather different from the tone of the original play, thus avoiding—as Galatopoulos notes—"philosophical ostentation (appropriate in Voltaire and popular at the time)" and noting in the preface to the libretto: :Zaira therefore is not covered with the ample cloak of Tragedy but wrapped in the tight form of Melodrama.Romani, preface to the printed libretto of Zaira, Parma 1829, quoted in Galatopoulos 2002, p. 155 Librettist and composer arrived in Parma on 17 March 1829 giving them 56 days before the opening, but Bellini then learned that some of the singers would only arrive 14 days before the date of the premiere, a date that was—in theory—unchangeable. In fact, that date had to be changed due to the inability of Lalande to arrive in time for sufficient rehearsal.
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Portrait of Sargent's mother, Mary Turner, by John Singleton Copley, 1763 Sargent was born in Boston, the youngest of seven children of Daniel Sargent Sr. (1730–1806) and Mary Turner (1744–1813), daughter of John Turner of The House of the Seven Gables. His father was a merchant dealing in fishermen's supplies who had moved from Gloucester to Boston and profited so much by his industry, prudence, and popularity that he occupied what was for those days a conspicuously expensive mansion, although his character was notable for thrift and dread of ostentation. He was the brother of businessman politician Daniel Sargent and artist Henry Sargent (father of Henry Winthrop Sargent), cousin of the early advocate of women's equality Judith Sargent Murray, and the nephew of American Revolutionary War soldier Paul Dudley Sargent. His paternal grandfather was Epes Sargent, a Representative to the General Court of Massachusetts.
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Through his projects, Pierre Yovanovitch introduces into the world of interior architecture and decoration what the magazine AD France designates as a new style "Made in France": the best of French craftsmanship know-how remaining open to influences and talents from elsewhere. The taut lines of the drawings make up a structured architecture. The press retains from Pierre Yovanovitch's work his contemporary vision of a luxury without ostentation, his taste for noble and authentic materials (marble, stone, bronze, metal, ceramics) that he makes work by experienced craftsmen. Collector of design and contemporary art, Pierre Yovanovitch is particularly interested in the creators of the countries of the North (Frits Henningsen, , Paavo Tynell, Flemming Lassen, Rasmus Fenhann, Harri Koskinnen), American (Paul Laszlo, Paul Frankl, Robsjohn- Gibbings, James Mont, Harvey Probber) and French (Robert Mallet-Stevens, Paul Dupré-Lafon, Jean-Michel Frank) from the 1930s to 1960s.
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According to Hu (1944), mianzi stands for 'the kind of prestige that is emphasized...a reputation achieved through getting on in life, through success and ostentation', while face is 'the respect of a group for a man with a good moral reputation: the man who will fulfill his obligations regardless of the hardships involved, who under all circumstances shows himself a decent human being'. The concept seems to relate to two different meanings, from one side Chinese consumers try to increase or maintain their reputation (mianzi) in front of socially and culturally significant others (e.g. friends); on the other hand, they try to defend or save face. Mianzi is not only important to improve the consumer's reputation in front of significant others, but rather it is also associated with feelings of dignity, honor, and pride. In consumer behaviour literature, mianzi has been used to explain Chinese consumer purchasing behaviour and brand choice and considered it as a ‘quality’ owned by some brands.
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Even though this artists' quarter of Montmartre was characterized by generalized poverty, Modigliani himself presented—initially, at least—as one would expect the son of a family trying to maintain the appearances of its lost financial standing to present: his wardrobe was dapper without ostentation, and the studio he rented was appointed in a style appropriate to someone with a finely attuned taste in plush drapery and Renaissance reproductions. He soon made efforts to assume the guise of the bohemian artist, but, even in his brown corduroys, scarlet scarf and large black hat, he continued to appear as if he were slumming it, having fallen upon harder times. When he first arrived in Paris, he wrote home regularly to his mother, he sketched his nudes at the Académie Colarossi, and he drank wine in moderation. He was at that time considered by those who knew him as a bit reserved, verging on the asocial.
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Part Two. Additional and Undated Letters (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970), p. 202. > There is lost to the world, in every thing but the example of his life the > fairest mind that perhaps ever infor'd a human body. A mind totally free > from every Vice, and fill'd with Virtues of all kinds, and in each kind of > no common rank or form; benevolent, friendly, generous, disinterested, > unambitious almost to a fault; Tho' cold in his exterior, he was inwardly > quick and full of feeling, and tho' reserv'd from modesty, from dignity, > from family temperament and not from design, he was an entire stranger to > every thing false and counterfeit: so great an Enemy to all dissimulation > active or passive, and indeed even to a fair and just ostentation, that some > of his Virtues, obscur'd by his other Virtues, wanted something of that > burnish and lustre which those who know how to assay the solidity and > fineness of the metal wish'd them to have.
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Nouveau riche (; ) is a term used, usually derogatory, to describe those whose wealth has been acquired within their own generation, rather than by familial inheritance. The equivalent English term is the "new rich" or "new money" (in contrast with "old money"; vieux riche). Sociologically, nouveau riche refers to the person who previously had belonged to a lower social class and economic stratum (rank) within that class; and that the new money, which constitutes his or her wealth, allowed upward social mobility and provided the means for conspicuous consumption, the buying of goods and services that signal membership in an upper class. As a pejorative term, nouveau riche affects distinctions of type, the given stratum within a social class; hence, among the rich people of a social class, nouveau riche describes the vulgarity and ostentation of the newly rich man or woman who lacks the worldly experience and the system of values of "old money", of inherited wealth, such as the patriciate, the nobility, and the gentry.
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He was editor of the Sunday Times for 32 years, during which circulation rose from 35,000 to 150,000, penetrating every province and reaching towns and villages scattered over an area of almost half-a-million square miles. He died in Johannesburg on 11 May 1945. 1942–1947: E.B ‘Chook’ Dawson - remembered as the first of the paper's 'shirtsleeves editors', a journalist who hated ostentation in either people or prose. At the time of his death in 1957 he was also remembered as a hero of Delville Wood who saved a comrade's life during the epic battle in World War I. 1947–1958: N. A. G. Caley named editor 1959–1975: Joel Mervis has been credited as transforming the Sunday Times it into the most widely read and powerful weekly in South Africa during his tenure as editor. 1975–1990: Albert Tertius Myburgh (26 December 1936 – 2 December 1990) was a South African journalist and editor, best known as editor of the Sunday Times.
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Ray was meant to appear in My Sister Eileen (1955) as The Wreck but walked off the set claiming his role was too small, and had to be replaced by Dick York. Battle Cry was a big hit at the box office so Columbia gave Ray a lead role as a sergeant who marries a Japanese girl in Three Stripes in the Sun (originally The Gentle Wolfhound, 1955), then loaned him to Paramount for We're No Angels (also 1955), in which he starred with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Basil Rathbone, Leo G. Carroll, and Joan Bennett. Ray was profiled in Sight & Sound which said: > Aldo Ray's technical advance in the four years since The Marrying Kind > enables him now to work in subtler, more economical degree; there is an > authoritative reserve- and, still remarkably intact, the original rare lack > of ostentation. All the same, his career seems to have become a nomadic > drifting round the studios looking for the right kind of film.
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Campbell 1995 pp. 20–25 Fielding does not limit his analysis of gender roles to just the living; the image of the ghost plays a significant part in many of Fielding's plays, including The Author's Farce, the Tom Thumb plays, and The Covent Garden Tragedy. Even though Fielding fails to explain what the existence of ghosts means, the image of the ghost can serve as a metaphor for Fielding's expectation of women who are supposed to be publicly virtuous. According to Campbell, > woman bears the representational burden for Fielding of his disappointment > about the relation between internal and external selves, as, culturally, she > must sustain the realm of private life, interior feeling, and personal > identity apart from the public and commercial world of the male; inevitably, > then, she must fail Fielding through her reliance on the 'harlotry' of pomp, > ostentation, or the drama of self-display if she is to be a part of this > world.
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But, as Sir William Napier remarked, while "money, troops, and a fleet--in fine, all things necessary to render Cádiz formidable--were collected, yet to little purpose, because procrastinating jealousy, ostentation, and a thousand absurdities, were the invariable attendants of Spanish armies and government". General Graham resolved to make an effort to raise the siege by attacking the rear of the besieging army, and in February 1811, he sailed from Cádiz with a force of upwards of 4,000 men, accompanied by 7,000 Spanish troops, under General La Pena, to whom, for the sake of unanimity, the chief command was conceded. The allied troops assembled at Tarifa, in the Straits of Gibraltar, and, moving northward, they arrived, on the morning of 5 March, at the heights of Barrosa, which were on the south of Cádiz and of the lines of the besieging army. On the instructions of the Spanish general, Graham's force moved down from the position of Barossa to that of the Torre de Bermeja, about half-way to the Santi Petri river, in order to secure the communication across that river.
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His topical songs took aim at the complacency and indolence of wealthy playboys and the upper class ("A House in the Country", "Sunny Afternoon"), the heedless ostentation of a self-indulgent spendthrift nouveau riche ("Most Exclusive Residence For Sale"), and even the mercenary nature of the music business itself ("Session Man"). By late 1966, Davies was addressing the bleakness of life at the lower end of the social spectrum: released together as the complementary A-B sides of a single, "Dead End Street" and "Big Black Smoke" were powerful neo-Dickensian sketches of urban poverty. Other songs like "Situation Vacant" (1967) and "Shangri-La" (1969) hinted at the helpless sense of insecurity and emptiness underlying the materialistic values adopted by the English working class. In a similar vein, "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" (1966) wittily satirized the consumerism and celebrity worship of Carnaby Street and 'Swinging London', while "David Watts" (1967) humorously expressed the wounded feelings of a plain schoolboy who envies the grace and privileges enjoyed by a charismatic upper class student.
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In the early 1980s the areas of Milan were frequented by groups of young people with their own rules and styles such as metalheads or goths. Within this context, a fashion developed, along the lines of the others due to the need to underline the belonging to a specific group, made up of young adolescents or slightly older, who met at the local area of Piazza San Babila, coding its own vocabulary and its own style based on the ostentation of very expensive designer garments but which was at the same time affordable for everyone thanks to a market that, caught the new fashion, began to provide at affordable prices what is necessary to conform to the new style. In the sandwich bars and fast food restaurants of the center of Milan a custom phenomenon took shape which, after having spread throughout Italy, also spread abroad. The meeting places, sandwich shops and fast food restaurants, where quick meals could be eaten, therefore also determined their name (panino in Italian means sandwich).
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The Mozi (), also called the Mojing () or the Mohist canon, is an ancient Chinese text from the Warring States period (476–221) that expounds the philosophy of Mohism. It propounds such Mohist ideas as impartiality, meritocratic governance, economic growth and aversion to ostentation, and is known for its plain and simple language. The chapters of the Mozi can be divided into several categories: a core group of 31 chapters, which contain the basic philosophic ideas of the Mohist school; several chapters on logic, which are among the most important early Chinese texts on logic and are traditionally known as the "Dialectical Chapters"; five sections containing stories and information about Mozi and his followers; and eleven chapters on technology and defensive warfare, on which the Mohists were expert and which are valuable sources of information on ancient Chinese military technology. There are also two other minor sections: an initial group of seven chapters that are clearly of a much later date, and two anti-Confucian chapters, only one of which has survived.
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She married the Doge in 1242, after the death of his former dogaressa Maria Storlato (d. 1240). The wedding followed that of her sister Constance who had been married to her husband's predecessor as doge to confirm the Treaty of Venice between Sicily and Venice. Her royal status and 'ostentation of Regal rank' in the Venetian Court has been suggested to have influenced the promulgation of what was called the "Promissione", which was instigated in 1242 and which stated that the Doge was not the executive Head of the State but only the executor of the orders of the Council, and was no longer to be given homage; nor was the dogaressa or any relatives of her to be given any form of public office or power position, nore where they allowed to have a court or household larger than twenty-five free retainers and twenty-five slaves.Staley, Edgcumbe: The dogaressas of Venice : The wives of the doges, London : T. W. Laurie, 1910 Dogaressa Valdrada has been described as dominant and forceful, and is said to have had a great deal of control over her husband and the affairs of Venice.
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