How To Use Flamboyance In A Sentence
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Grandmother displayed all the warmth, enthusiasm, and flamboyance that she had loved so dearly in her brother Theodore.
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Ferri revealed a madcap brilliance as Katherina, while Bocca's Petruchio buckled his swashes with rare comic flamboyance.
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'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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Campese was his usual mixture of flamboyance and flair.
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Each is a period evocation, a study of a bygone performance style, full of peculiar details of very precise flamboyance.
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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.
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We are alone until we stumble upon a flamboyance of flamingos (what a pleasing collective noun).
Times, Sunday Times
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The book, for all its linguistic flamboyance, is a difficult read.
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All are played smoothly, efficiently, with an unerring eye but little flamboyance.
Times, Sunday Times
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The various programmes captured his larger-than-life persona and irrepressible, outrageous flamboyance both on and off stage.
Times, Sunday Times
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While the Dutch showed coltish flamboyance, the Italians were resolute, unflappable, patient, wise, brilliant.
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People recall the flamboyance, the excesses and the scandals, but consider instead the work; Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood, those wonderful holiday stories on TV about old ladies and little boys and, of course, his extraordinary journalism.
Hollywood's Capote, And Mine
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The dance floor is crowded with performers who are preening either with feminine realness or clownish flamboyance.
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Their mix of flamboyance, lyricism and expert counterpoint suggest a well-practised compositional hand.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is morally ambiguous and purposefully divorced from the thrill - seeking flamboyance of the director's glory - glory days.
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Movement is suggested less by the heavy-footed dancers than by the writhe and flamboyance of the composition.
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The formal gardens she commissioned exceeded her father's in flamboyance.
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It is difficult to imagine, when we admire these austere white or red walls, the flamboyance of the treasures they protect.
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His penchant for bright colours - orange and yellow are favourites - only add to his reputation for excitement and flamboyance.
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Some of the early rhododendrons are currently in full flamenco flamboyance, but the rare blue ones are still to show their best colors.
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Yimou has the eye of a painter, the grace of a dancer and the flamboyance of a circus showman.
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The font was inspired by the Baroque style, which was noted for its symmetry and flamboyance.
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If the formal flamboyance of his '60s films has been replaced by complexity and their humour superseded by an intensified sensitivity to beauty, it is only to be expected and welcomed.
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he wrote with great flamboyance
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Petronius is a 'classicist'; the friend of Nero, he protests against the flamboyance of the age as typified in the rhetorical style of Seneca and
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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In Wally's A&M roster of two, he had the full scope of the '70s black American experience: a comedian and a folk singer, who together represented the pain, anger, flamboyance, dignity, and cartoonishness of those first post-civil rights figures.
Shawn Amos: Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a '70s Hollywood Childhood (Part 2)
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Snow fields his position the way Ozzie Smith fielded his, with a certain flamboyance.
USATODAY.com - Defense rules in Gold-Glove NLCS
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He leavens the show's political urgency with big doses of humor as well as a theatrical flamboyance that undercuts the pathos and the politics.
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It's about flamboyance and adorability - and if you don't have both in spades, you're best packing up and moving on.
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Early musketeers, of the late 16th and early 17th century, were noted not only for the flamboyance of their dress but also as élite foot soldiers, armed with the latest in death-dealing technology, the matchlock.
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Industrial design is, by convention, not a discipline given to flamboyance.
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Campese was his usual mixture of flamboyance and flair.
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If the formal flamboyance of his '60s films has been replaced by complexity and their humour superseded by an intensified sensitivity to beauty, it is only to be expected and welcomed.
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His music has beauty and flamboyance, a luxuriousness in its sounds.
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I'm a criminal, guilty of infatuation and flamboyance in the bousy face of love, love, love.
Chewing Used Gum
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It is woolly-headed to suppose that Liverpool, in debilitating form, could suddenly be converted to flamboyance and virtuosity.
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For all their nastiness, the characters have an unashamed flamboyance that is hard to resist.
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On a dance floor crowded with drag performers who are preening either with feminine realness or clownish flamboyance, Aviance is a unique creature.
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Translate this promiscuous flamboyance into pottery and you have majolica, into theater and you have Palermo's life-sized puppet shows, into cuisine and you have… caponata.
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Among the concerns of American prelates are reports that an aggressive gay ethos has arisen on campus, manifesting in unwelcoming cliques and ecclesiastic flamboyance -- a tendency to embrace the stagier elements of the liturgy, for instance.
Gays And The Seminary
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Pigliucci's embarrassment is a result of his own "flamboyance" - further in evidence at his
ScreenTalk
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* the great Colossus POV as it spies on Forbin, especially in the more titillating sections and all of that visual flamboyance is coupled with the magnificently chilling audio centerpiece: the Voice of Colossus and its horrifying implacable tone.
Show #29: Pre-show Discussion : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas
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His flamboyance earned him a lengthy profile in The New Yorker.
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It's astonishingly courageous the way he turns heads in crowds by his language, style, and flamboyance.
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It's a businessy look, but with that touch of flamboyance that so irks her rivals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite their flamboyance, camellias are quite easy to grow.
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The irreverent flamboyance of pop art, collage, parody and deconstruction made offbeat performance more audience-friendly, more upmarket.
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The musketeers romantically portrayed by Dumas in the 19th century reflected the flamboyance and panache expected of them and their kind.
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Inevitably it dwelled on his flamboyance—the polished riding boots, whip, and pearl-handled revolvers—at the expense of the expertise and flair he brought to warfare.
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But his bedside manner and determined lack of flamboyance were huge sources of strength.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mairead stole the show with her flamboyance and nimble fingered fiddling.
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Perhaps it was the "flamboyance" that explained why he never clinched the deal with Robert Mugabe, the famously homophobic Zimbabwean strongman who has accused Tony Blair of being a "gay gangster" leading "the gay government of the gay United gay Kingdom," and prides himself on being able to spot "flamboyance" at 200 yards.
The Pariah Guy
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Now, stipple is of course such an easy method that, like all easy methods, it runs to flamboyance; when people have a chance to express themselves they are apt to make all that is inside and that is outside of themselves in one form or another flamboyant, grandiose, and sometimes ridiculously so; but other times it is the expression of the most beautiful things in architecture, especially from the French schools, that one could imagine.
A Trip Through South America
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At some point, every gay cliché makes an appearance onscreen, from drag queens, to backrooms, to orgies, to poppers, to flamboyance, and beyond.
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He employed his distinct blend of charm, flamboyance, insubordination, and contemptuous manipulation on politicians, the media, and superior officers to get his way.
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What's more, it's ballet chosen for the rigor and intensity of the choreography, not the flamboyance of the spectacle.
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Back in the seemingly pre-historic 1950s an interviewer asked pianist Liberace if it bothered him that people made fun of his flamboyance (which was a code word, back then for being gay).
Tim Berry: Who's Winning the Cramer vs. Stewart Battle?
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My father, who did not much like churrigueresque flamboyance, replied, 'They might use it as a model for a wedding cake, but hardly for a church.' in this matter I sided with my mother, and although later I was to see such awe-inspiring cathedrals as Chartres and Salisbury, I always thought that our cathedral in Toledo was the most angelic I had ever seen.
Mexico
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My father, who did not much like churrigueresque flamboyance, replied, - Mey might use it as a model for a wedding cake, but hardly for a church. '
Mexico
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The set design ranges from colorful flamboyance to austere solemnity.
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On another level, Paul's gaudy taste deliberately mocks bigoted expectations that blacks will ‘go in for loud colors’ because his flamboyance both flaunts his racial identification and burlesques it at the same time.
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Nan Enstad writes of the same flamboyance that working women were challenging the dominant meaning of "ladyhood," creating their own distinctive style that implicitly denied that labor made them masculine, degraded, or alien.
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
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He lacked the flamboyance of other members of the band.
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Dora is a middle-aged, life-long aspiring actress who brings a mix of daffy flamboyance and tragic loneliness to the household.
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With flamboyance and little affectation, she explained the functions and advantages of optical fibre communication.
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Soft sounds of crashing waves and passing cars were piped into the room, creating a melancholy soundscape that contrasted with the exhibition's visual flamboyance.
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He stares out at us from photographs and self-portraits, bald, bearded and utterly lacking in flamboyance.
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As the name suggests, the award aims to recognise the player who has brought the most energy, flamboyance or spectacular gamesmanship to the pitch.
