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1 Neither Castle nor his alter ego, Rook, is the kind to drink coffee out of a Greek diner cup; they are, rather ostentatiously, on the wining side of the class war.

2 Looking back, she sees a man who has begun to ostentatiously urinate into the water, “a fat, glittering jet, like a rope of gold he was casting into the sea.”

3 wears an ostentatious diamond ring on his little finger

4 The militaries of many nations harness mass media and pop culture for promotional purposes: the United States coöperates with Hollywood; Russia ostentatiously unveils a three-tiered “war center” seemingly modelled on a Bond villain’s lair.

5 The mud-splattered blue pick-up in which he arrives is almost ostentatiously utilitarian, as is his attire: wellington boots, lived-in, slightly stained pullover, all topped off by a weathered face and wild red-grey hair.

6 Her house is nice but not ostentatiously so.

7 In the most pointed satiric shot Ms. McKay blithely carols Irving Berlin’s “Isn’t This a Lovely Day” while her drummer, Ben Bynum, ostentatiously simulates shooting heroin while she pretends not to notice.

8 But the show often ends up so ostentatiously bloody and dark that it’s unintentionally funny.

9 Most hip-hop acts and posses are, proudly and ostentatiously, their own brands, touting their own success and coining their own slogans.

10 Sia, in promoting her most recent album, has been ostentatiously absent; it’s a strategy that’s paid huge dividends for her, and one she continues by sharing only her exhalations with fans.

11 Picture a pampered socialite ostentatiously putting her generational wealth on display.

12 The two values were not inconsistent — at least not in Mobutu’s mind — and he pursued an ostentatiously expensive building program, both in Kinshasa and his home town, Gbadolite.

13 Zava is immediately weird — showing up hours late with his cellphone on another continent, ostentatiously meditating while the rest of the team prepares for games, and so on.

14 Mr. Colen manages this with only seven works, but the problem is that three of them are found-object sculptures, big, ostentatiously banal and acquired or moved at obvious expense.

15 On satellite radio, as in the pages of Sassy and Jane, she has both dispensed advice and sought it, ostentatiously laying out her maternal malfeasance on the segment Worst Mom in the World.

16 In fact, the best argument this production makes against conspicuous consumption is Herrin’s staging, which ostentatiously deploys vast resources to dispiritingly empty effect.

17 A few steps farther down the aisle, a young man of about 25, two seats in, leaned out and ostentatiously offered his own cheek for Mr. O’Brien to kiss.

18 But in the Land of, yes, Lincoln have urgent work to do — for their debt-besotted nation and their ostentatiously divided party.

19 Lovers embracing on a park bench as their neighbors gaze ostentatiously elsewhere.

20 His wife, Mrs Carter, as she likes to be addressed, did that other classic tourist thing: she slung a large and ostentatiously expensive camera around her neck.

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