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  • How flagrantly, sensually, it reverberated before the altar when she said, "With my body I thee worship."†   (source)
  • Lara rhymed quietly and nervously—and with even more flagrant disregard for the beat than me.†   (source)
  • "Back door was open to the alley," said Cherry, elbowing off his sports coat and swigging from a bottle of vodka which Shirley T. had produced from under the front seat—hands a bit shaky and his face, the nose particularly, glowing a flagrant, stressed-out, Rudolph red.†   (source)
  • So, in flagrant violation of my grandmother's fashion dictums, I wore my newly relaced combat boots (in case I had to kick anybody holding a microphone who got too close), and I also wore all of my Greenpeace and antifur buttons, so at least my celebrity status will be put to good use.†   (source)
  • He also wanted to spread the biological virus as a promoter or enhancer of the cult, but he couldn't really get away with doing that through the use of cult prostitution because it is flagrantly anti-Christian.†   (source)
  • Living like this, the way I'm living at the moment, is harder in the summer when there is so much daylight, so little cover of darkness, when everyone is out and about, being flagrantly, aggressively happy.†   (source)
  • Nothing that flagrant.†   (source)
  • But no matter how flagrant the charge, the regent simply listened, not defending himself, showing no emotion at all.†   (source)
  • He flagrantly disregarded the applications process by not having the boy come to Beecher Prep for the interview—or take the test like every one of our kids did.†   (source)
  • They alone had a sense of adventure and were flagrant in their enjoyment of the automobile's plushness.†   (source)
  • Major Major's elders disliked him because he was such a flagrant nonconformist.†   (source)
  • I found you in contempt, Mr. Buckley, you and your co-counsel, because of what I considered a flagrant disrespect for my courtroom, and thus me.†   (source)
  • If, as a young officer, he seemed at times flagrantly, unattractively ambitious, he had long since overcome that.†   (source)
  • The journalism department consisted of one bespectacled teacher named Edna Baggs, who must have seen promise in me or she would certainly have kicked me off the newspaper for my flagrant abuses of power.†   (source)
  • "You're telling me that the Security Police is involved in flagrant criminal activity."†   (source)
  • She would drink whiskey with tourists, embroider histories flagrant with peril, stride through the darkness with nothing but a tambourine and too many carnatións.†   (source)
  • His clothes attracted attention, like his car and for the same reason; he wore a simple trenchcoat and a hat with a slanting brim, but they were of such good quality, so flagrantly expensive that they appeared ostentatious among the seedy garments of the crowds everywhere, the more ostentatious because worn so naturally.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, there could be no denying the man's flagrant heresy.†   (source)
  • Do you have even the flimsiest excuse for such flagrant tardiness?†   (source)
  • Koreans like to taste everything at once, have it all out on the table, flagrantly mixing the flavors.†   (source)
  • A guaranty would be useful and we might suggest that it exists, but it would flagrantly violate the States' rights clause.†   (source)
  • Drizzt realized that Kessell, in his arrogant disregard for the dangers growing around him, was making a flagrant mistake.†   (source)
  • A case so flagrantly leap-frogging over facts and 'related' facts that even a court in Moscow would send a puppet prosecutor back to the drawing board.†   (source)
  • The axiom that a man is innocent until proved guilty by a court of law has been flagrantly ignored once again in the State of Mississippi.†   (source)
  • He smiled at her with clean white teeth, stroked her on the buttocks, uttered a few words that were at once barely comprehensible and flagrantly lewd, then disappeared.†   (source)
  • Rufus quickly came to suspect the more flagrant exaggerations of friendliness, but the subtler boys found, to their intense delight, that if only they varied the surface, the bait, from time to time, they would almost always deceive him.†   (source)
  • Few Northerners could stomach any strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Act, the most bitterly hated measure—and untilProhibition, the most flagrantly disobeyed—ever passed by Congress.†   (source)
  • Seventh Day Adventists and Methodists and Spiritualists seemed to be hobnobbing with Holyrollers and they were all, alike, entangled with the most flagrant disbelievers; something heavy in their stance seemed to indicate that they had all, incredibly, seen a common vision, and on each face there seemed to be the same strange, bitter shadow.†   (source)
  • Harding feared there had been at least very flagrant indiscretion.   (source)
  • Do you think I am deceived as to the flagrant impropriety of my conduct?   (source)
  • When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.   (source)
  • It was a dreadful picture of ingratitude and inhumanity; and Anne felt, at some moments, that no flagrant open crime could have been worse.   (source)
  • I longed all at once to insult them all in a most flagrant manner and then go away.   (source)
  • flagrant violation of human rights
  • It was a remarkable letter—lucid, knowledgeable, and candid, if flagrantly self-congratulatory.†   (source)
  • That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!†   (source)
  • He said he was American and so reserved the right to flagrant displays of technology.†   (source)
  • Some cases, indeed, have been so flagrant that EVERYONE agrees they are improper.†   (source)
  • Can it be supposed that public morals are improved, or the tendency to the commission of flagrant crimes repressed, by such public sights as these.†   (source)
  • Everybody was sitting on sleeping bags, Alaska smoking with flagrant disregard for the overwhelming flammability of the structure, when the Colonel pulled out a single piece of computer paper and read from it.†   (source)
  • Continuous observation of her, and of her contrived antics, led me to deduce that she was not in fact insane, as she pretended, but was attempting to pull the wool over my eyes in a studied and flagrant manner.†   (source)
  • Hassan placed twenty-two dollars on the counter, which the girl promptly slid into a pocket of her shorts, flagrantly' disregarding the cash register before her.†   (source)
  • The contrast between such disorder and flagrant disregard for authority and the perfectly orchestrated landing by Howe's troops could not have been more pronounced.†   (source)
  • To the Federalists, the bill wasa flagrant attempt to diminish the power of the President to the benefit of the senate, and they adamantly objected, arguing that the removal of ranking officials in the executive branch must be at the sole discretion of the President.†   (source)
  • Most of the council agreed that the legislature flagrantly violated the constitution in a variety of important instances: 10.†   (source)
  • …transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base--by the presence of these large, long range, and clearly offensive weapons of sudden mass destruction--constitutes an explicit threat to the peace and security of all the Americas, in flagrant and deliberate defiance of the Rio Pact of 1947, the traditions of this Nation and hemisphere, the joint resolution of the 87th Congress, the Charter of the United Nations, and my own public warnings to the Soviets on September 4 and 13.†   (source)
  • It was probably Sophie's most flagrant evasion (and one incorporating her strangest lie) that earlier she kept harping to me about the extraordinary liberality and tolerance of her upbringing, not only deceiving me, just as I'm sure she deceived Nathan, but concealing from me until the last possible moment a truth which, in order to justify her dealings with the Commandant, she could hide no longer: that the pamphlet had been written by her father, Professor Zbigniew Bieganski,…†   (source)
  • Another bill, to levy penalizing fines against any church holding nonsegregated services, was, he contended, in flagrant contradiction to the First Amendment of the Constitution.†   (source)
  • Her voice was strange by omission, it was flagrantly devoid of respect.†   (source)
  • It was as though, stumbling upon himself from the outside, he had suddenly caught himself out, taken himself flagrantly at fault.†   (source)
  • They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening.†   (source)
  • Cash's face is also gravely composed; he and I look at one another with long probing looks, looks that plunge unimpeded through one another's eyes and into the ultimate secret place where for an instant Cash and Darl crouch flagrant and unabashed in all the old terror and the old foreboding, alert and secret and without shame.†   (source)
  • Nicolay, in his Outbreak of Rebellion, asserted his belief that it was Lincoln's carefully matured purpose to force rebellion to put itself flagrantly and fatally in the wrong by attacking Fort Sumter.†   (source)
  • He acted like a snob; not a flagrant snob, but a natural, innocent one who tries very hard not to be snobbish.†   (source)
  • Then she felt the sinking gasp inside, that feeling of shame and pleasure which he always gave her: she realized that their understanding had been more intimate and flagrant than ever—in his natural acceptance of an unnatural offer; he had shown her how much he knew—by his lack of astonishment.†   (source)
  • That is all that matters in life"—not looking at Keating, but past him, the lenses raised flagrantly to a line over Keating's face.†   (source)
  • It happens like this, one can never tell exactly when or why…There's someone here, though, who seems to be ignoring you quite flagrantly, doesn't she?†   (source)
  • She wore a white silk dress with long sleeves and a cowl neck, a nun's garment that acquired the startling effect of an evening gown only by being so flagrantly unsuited to that purpose.†   (source)
  • So he went on smiling blandly—her hand resting casually on the black sleeve of his dinner jacket, her thigh against his as she stood beside him, her pose possessive and intimate, made flagrantly intimate by her air of not noticing it, while she told an admiring circle what she thought of the Cosmo-Slotnick Building.†   (source)
  • "Barred out of my own bedroom, by a flagrant absurdity!" he said.†   (source)
  • Do you think I am deceived as to the flagrant impropriety of my conduct?†   (source)
  • He was afraid of her, lest she should too flagrantly give herself away before the other girls.†   (source)
  • She smiled and smiled, and we met; but it was all done in a silence by this time flagrantly ominous.†   (source)
  • He stared at her in the most flagrant manner until at last she said: "What makes you stare at me so?†   (source)
  • I longed all at once to insult them all in a most flagrant manner and then go away.†   (source)
  • No, to the people the Foretopman's deed, however it be worded in the announcement, will be plain homicide committed in a flagrant act of mutiny.†   (source)
  • —I, who even in the most flagrant crimes had denied the justice and righteousness of capital punishment?†   (source)
  • At any rate, his heart had shrunk beneath those looks which in his eyes had contradicted and denied, in a most flagrant and intoxicating fashion, the reality that he and the sick woman were not so much as social acquaintances—had, in fact, shrunk almost painfully at the first rattle of the glass door, and his breath had come short and shallow as he sat waiting for that moment.†   (source)
  • The burden of Mrs. Manson Mingott's flesh had long since made it impossible for her to go up and down stairs, and with characteristic independence she had made her reception rooms upstairs and established herself (in flagrant violation of all the New York proprieties) on the ground floor of her house; so that, as you sat in her sitting-room window with her, you caught (through a door that was always open, and a looped-back yellow damask portiere) the unexpected vista of a bedroom with…†   (source)
  • The Comtesse de Tournay, who lately had so flagrantly insulted her, was here receiving a public lesson, at which Marguerite could not help but rejoice.†   (source)
  • Agreeing that one must support delegated authority, Nicole refused their request, whereupon Mary—who in the manner of an Anita Loos' heroine had dealings only with Faits Accomplis, who indeed could not have house-broken a French poodle puppy—regarded Dick as though he were guilty of a most flagrant bullying.†   (source)
  • But it would be too openly vile, too flagrantly infamous, if I did not at least restore to P——'s son the tens of thousands of roubles spent in curing my idiocy.†   (source)
  • As to the minor priests and acolytes of that temple, the result of all this was that they stood divided into two classes, and, down to the junior messenger, either believed in the Circumlocution Office as a heaven-born institution that had an absolute right to do whatever it liked; or took refuge in total infidelity, and considered it a flagrant nuisance.†   (source)
  • For Lydgate having attended Mrs. Goby, who died apparently of a heart-disease not very clearly expressed in the symptoms, too daringly asked leave of her relatives to open the body, and thus gave an offence quickly spreading beyond Parley Street, where that lady had long resided on an income such as made this association of her body with the victims of Burke and Hare a flagrant insult to her memory.†   (source)
  • A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.†   (source)
  • …her; how he had formed odious connections, which had estranged his affections from her: how she had borne everything—poverty, neglect, coldness from the being whom she most loved—and all for the sake of her child; how, finally, and by the most flagrant outrage, she had been driven into demanding a separation from her husband, when the wretch did not scruple to ask that she should sacrifice her own fair fame so that he might procure advancement through the means of a very great and…†   (source)
  • It is the most flagrant example of an abominable public vehicle that ever encumbered the face of the earth.†   (source)
  • So flagrant became the political scandals that reputable men began to leave politics alone, and politics consequently became disreputable.†   (source)
  • Harding) for his advice; Mr. Harding feared there had been at least very flagrant indiscretion.†   (source)
  • He will lie—that is, the man who is a special case, the incognito, and he will lie well, in the cleverest fashion; you might think he would triumph and enjoy the fruits of his wit, but at the most interesting, the most flagrant moment he will faint.†   (source)
  • "It was more than observable—it was flagrant; that's just the word, and the dictionary wouldn't supply a better, after an hour's search.†   (source)
  • There can be no outrage, methinks, against our common nature—whatever be the delinquencies of the individual—no outrage more flagrant than to forbid the culprit to hide his face for shame; as it was the essence of this punishment to do.†   (source)
  • Shaking her head very emphatically indeed, Mrs Nickleby swept away; and all the evening, in the midst of the merriment and enjoyment that ensued, and in which with that exception she freely participated, conducted herself towards Miss La Creevy in a stately and distant manner, designed to mark her sense of the impropriety of her conduct, and to signify her extreme and cutting disapprobation of the misdemeanour she had so flagrantly committed.†   (source)
  • It was a dreadful picture of ingratitude and inhumanity; and Anne felt, at some moments, that no flagrant open crime could have been worse.†   (source)
  • "An old flagrant female, sir, swearing and committing a nuisance in a horrible profane manner against the church wall, sir, as if 'twere no more than a pot-house!†   (source)
  • The defects and the weaknesses of a democratic government may very readily be discovered; they are demonstrated by the most flagrant instances, whilst its beneficial influence is less perceptibly exercised.†   (source)
  • …to his beard," continued Malvoisin, coolly, "that you love this captive Jewess to distraction; and the more thou dost enlarge on thy passion, the greater will be his haste to end it by the death of the fair enchantress; while thou, taken in flagrant delict by the avowal of a crime contrary to thine oath, canst hope no aid of thy brethren, and must exchange all thy brilliant visions of ambition and power, to lift perhaps a mercenary spear in some of the petty quarrels between Flanders…†   (source)
  • To another, they enumerated his own scars, his disgraces, and defeats; with a third, they dwelt on his losses of skins and horses; and a fourth was reminded of vengeance by a significant question, concerning some flagrant adventure, in which he was known to have been a sufferer.†   (source)
  • The injustice of his sentence was very flagrant; all Paris was indignant; and it was judged that his religion and wealth rather than the crime alleged against him had been the cause of his condemnation.†   (source)
  • No quarter, war to the death! a pretty woman is a casus belli; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor.†   (source)
  • …king, after having ordered one of his servants, called a Prefect, to commit an injustice, has the power of commanding another of his servants, called a Councillor of State, to prevent the former from being punished; when I demonstrated to them that the citizen who has been injured by the order of the sovereign is obliged to solicit from the sovereign permission to obtain redress, they refused to credit so flagrant an abuse, and were tempted to accuse me of falsehood or of ignorance.†   (source)
  • Let us subject your social order to examination, let us take it where it stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the woman and the child.†   (source)
  • Despite the prohibitions of the trustees, these Georgians, like some of their descendants, proceeded to take the law into their own hands; and so pliant were the judges, and so flagrant the smuggling, and so earnest were the prayers of Whitefield, that by the middle of the eighteenth century all restrictions were swept away, and the slave-trade went merrily on for fifty years and more.†   (source)
  • …under him looking at one another and at the spectators as if nobody had ever heard that all over England the name in which they were assembled was a bitter jest, was held in universal horror, contempt, and indignation, was known for something so flagrant and bad that little short of a miracle could bring any good out of it to any one—this was so curious and selfcontradictory to me, who had no experience of it, that it was at first incredible, and I could not comprehend it.†   (source)
  • The truth is said to be that when Sir Leicester came down to Lincolnshire for good, Mr. Boythorn showed a manifest desire to abandon his right of way and do whatever Sir Leicester would, which Sir Leicester, conceiving to be a condescension to his illness or misfortune, took in such high dudgeon, and was so magnificently aggrieved by, that Mr. Boythorn found himself under the necessity of committing a flagrant trespass to restore his neighbour to himself.†   (source)
  • A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils poisoned, all this indicates that the palace of the Emperors of Russia is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity.†   (source)
  • Now, for an unfortunate man in his position, this convent was both the safest and the most dangerous of places; the most dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step intervening between the convent and prison; the safest, because, if he could manage to get himself accepted there and remain there, who would ever seek him in such a place?†   (source)
  • When people who had nothing to do with the case were so sensible of its flagrancy, people who lost money by it could scarcely be expected to deal mildly with it.†   (source)
  • The general bade him say what he pleased, but not to expect pardon for his flagrant offence.†   (source)
  • And the case must be very flagrant in which its fallacy could be detected with sufficient certainty to justify the harsh expedient of compulsion.†   (source)
  • Nor have I scrupled, in so flagrant a case, to allow myself a severity of animadversion little congenial with the general spirit of these papers.†   (source)
  • …purport of such a lengthy preamble; and though be strove to imagine what desire it could be that so troubled his friend, his conjectures were all far from the truth, and to relieve the anxiety which this perplexity was causing him, he told him he was doing a flagrant injustice to their great friendship in seeking circuitous methods of confiding to him his most hidden thoughts, for he well knew he might reckon upon his counsel in diverting them, or his help in carrying them into effect.†   (source)
  • Some cases, indeed, have been so flagrant that ALL PARTIES have agreed in the impropriety of the thing.†   (source)
  • The usurpations of the legislature might be so flagrant and so sudden, as to admit of no specious coloring.†   (source)
  • Ingratitude is a common topic of declamation against human nature; and it must be confessed that instances of it are but too frequent and flagrant, both in public and in private life.†   (source)
  • There is nothing of this kind declared in the articles that compose it; and to imply a tacit guaranty from considerations of utility, would be a still more flagrant departure from the clause which has been mentioned, than to imply a tacit power of coercion from the like considerations.†   (source)
  • In the execution of this trust, the council were necessarily led to a comparison of both the legislative and executive proceedings, with the constitutional powers of these departments; and from the facts enumerated, and to the truth of most of which both sides in the council subscribed, it appears that the constitution had been flagrantly violated by the legislature in a variety of important instances.†   (source)
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