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flamboyance

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[ UK /flˈæmbɔ‍ɪəns/ ]
[ US /fɫæmˈbɔɪəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. extravagant elaborateness
    he wrote with great flamboyance

How To Use flamboyance In A Sentence

  • Grandmother displayed all the warmth, enthusiasm, and flamboyance that she had loved so dearly in her brother Theodore.
  • Ferri revealed a madcap brilliance as Katherina, while Bocca's Petruchio buckled his swashes with rare comic flamboyance.
  • 'Fun' is a word much associated with him, yet for all the flamboyance and jocularity, you sense he is not into fame for a laugh.
  • For the rest of the year, I fought with my father who felt that a piano was an otiose flamboyance of the upper classes. Moondog
  • Blackened and degraded by centuries of dust and dirt, they emerged in a remarkable state of preservation that gives an excellent idea of their intended flamboyance.
  • Rosenthal, for all his camp flamboyance at the Alternative Miss World, is married to a curator at the Prado museum in Madrid and has two daughters.
  • Campese was his usual mixture of flamboyance and flair.
  • Each is a period evocation, a study of a bygone performance style, full of peculiar details of very precise flamboyance.
  • But to get back to the question of a gay sensibility: cliche has us believe that amongst its ingredients are flamboyance, showiness, excess and extravagance.
  • We are alone until we stumble upon a flamboyance of flamingos (what a pleasing collective noun). Times, Sunday Times
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