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Перевод: ostentation

[существительное]
показное проявление; хвастовство; выставление напоказ

Тезаурус:

1. Sir Daniel stood up and looked at his watch with some ostentation.
2. Apart from that, his life is devoid of ostentation.
3. Also, he had Amy's body sent down to Worcester College, Oxford, where it was interned with costly pageantry and ostentation.
4. This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English, which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses, the baize of gambling-tables, which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness, for the middle class; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life.
5. He looked at the number plate and realized that he had found the sole piece of ostentation Miss Morgan had allowed herself; she had been Angela Jane Morgan and the car was AJM 563.
6. Soloist Annette Servadei played beautifully with an involvement entirely free from any kind of ostentation.
7. Because God does not require reminding that we were just as good Jews without ostentation.
8. With very few exceptions they have refrained from ostentation: indeed their Nonconformist distaste for personal extravagance, reinforced by infusions of Scottish blood, has sometimes prompted small economies which, in the light of their extraordinary benevolence to good causes, have been accepted as amusingly careful instead of absurdly mean.
9. "I am not making a great song and dance about it," she said in a softly dangerous voice and, with a hint of ostentation in her movements, stirred a saccharin tablet into a cup of black coffee.
10. It was built with the characteristic ostentation of the period, and looks like a Victorian town hall with a chimney.
11. Charles arrived in Rome, perhaps intentionally, during Holy Week, and celebrated the Easter festivities there in great ostentation and style.
12. Could He, I wondered, possibly feel at home amongst all that ostentation.
13. On her money she could well have afforded something grander, like a Porsche, but evidently she had decided against ostentation.