Tuesday, April 18, 2017

O for Ostentatious

ABC Wednesday
April 19th, 2017

The letter is O for Ostentatious



A few quips, quotes and examples


and

Ostentatious simplicity is sophisticated hypocrisy

I don't know who said this, but I think it is quite true


If you must tattoo be elaborate !!!!!


How not to be ostentatious in literature

Advice from T.S. Eliot


My dear, how vulgar!


and slightly ridiculous!!!

Which probably brings one to this conclusion.....


More Os here at ABC Wednesday
with thanks to all the unpretentious people
who maintain this great meme.

8 comments:

MelodyK said...

Intriguing word and post... even lesser nice words can ben used very well in our meme

Have a nice ABC-day / -week
♫ M e l ☺ d y ♫ (abc-w-team)
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Roger Owen Green said...

HA! I love that pink...hat?


ROG, ABCW

photowannabe said...

Such great examples of the word ostentatious.
Oh my...that hat!!!

Sallie (FullTime-Life) said...

I can hear my Victorian grandmother sneering that word when describing a certain neighbor 'lady' whom I remember with dislike. So to me 'ostentatious' is very close to a curse word. (The pictures you show are kind of funny (that hat!) but the woman I remember wore a big fur coat with a collar made of animals (minks?) hanging head down ... I was afraid of them and of her. There are other equally vulgar family stories about that woman....

I really do hope I've found the golden medium between my prim and proper grandmother and that ostentatious woman -- neither one was an ideal role model really!

Reader Wil said...

When I read this word ostentatious, I always think of Hyacinth Bucket or mrs. Bouquet, the Lady of the House, in " Keeping up appearances".
Good word Hildred.

The Weaver of Grass said...

Loved this Hildred, so well thought-out.

carol l mckenna said...

Very creative choice and photos for O ~ fun too ~ thanks,

Wishing you a peaceful week ~ ^_^

Su-sieee! Mac said...

Great post! Even with the example, I still don't get ostentatious simplicity. Could that be a photo or painting that's blank?