All 3 Uses of
ostentatious
in
Love in the Time of Cholera
- They had changed everything, they had removed the trees with their carpet of yellow leaves and replaced the statue of the decapitated hero with that of another, who wore his dress uniform but had no name or dates or reasons to justify him, and who stood on an ostentatious pedestal in which they had installed the electrical controls for the district.†
Chpt 6
- It was a social event more ostentatious than emotional.
Chpt 6 *ostentatious = intended to impress others
- But he returned the same day, refreshed and renewed, at the unusual hour of eleven o'clock, and he undressed in front of her with a certain ostentation.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(ostentatious) intended to attract notice and impress others -- especially with wealth in a vulgar way