He's rather proud of me and displays it with ostentatious shows of support-there's a case of constructive guilt for you.

A pedant is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism and precision, or who makes an ostentatious and arrogant show of learning.

The dress code on the second page of our booklet also specified that makeup, even lipstick, was forbidden, as was any ostentatious show of jewelry.

The Palace for all its ostentatious show, afforded Greylock with few places for his feet, but it proved no real obstacle to his climbing skill, even without his Talons.

Then, with an ostentatious show of sacrifice, he proffered it to Greylock.

Another of his men stood at the landing; Morgan was not generally given to such ostentatious shows of protection, but today's matters called for certain realistic precautions.

This rich Lord of the Manor now stood in the middle of the hall revelling in his ostentatious show of wealth whilst servants placed high-backed chairs in front of the fire.

"I used to get negative publicity that people bought things from me because they were expensive, that they wanted to make an ostentatious show," he says.

However, after two years, the duo Kiralfy/Haller gave up again, their ostentatious shows with too little content finding little favour with audiences.

Nothing but ostentatious show for the people who hire them and degrading drudgery for the people who take such jobs.