Use "make a display of" in a sentence

1. "I don't wish to make a display of my feelings, but I have habitually thought of you more in the night than I am quite equal to

2. Once, I thought I would make a display of my knowledge of literature, particularly French literature, and so led the conversation to that theme

3. And to preach this Christian truth and to support it by Christian example we set up among them prisons, guillotines, gallows, preparations for murder; we diffuse among the common herd idolatrous superstitions to stupefy them; we sell them spirits, tobacco, and opium to brutalize them; we even organize legalized prostitution; we give land to those who do not need it; we make a display of senseless luxury in the midst of suffering poverty; we destroy the possibility of anything like a Christian public opinion, and studiously try to suppress what Christian public opinion is existing