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  • She had been imagining the scene of a crime, a Gothic cathedral, whose flamboyant vaulting would be flooded with brazen light of scarlet and indigo from a stained-glass backdrop of lurid suffering.†   (source)
  • EZEKIEL AND URIAH LOCKWOOD, BROTHERS, R.I.P. He likes these names, likes their oddness, their flamboyance.†   (source)
  • The man Syrio Forel had come with an excellent reputation, and his flamboyant Braavosi style was well suited to Arya's slender blade, yet still …. a few days ago, she had been wandering around with a swatch of black silk tied over her eyes.†   (source)
  • But the big kids, the ones that were on teams, they were wearing much more flamboyant clothing.†   (source)
  • …flitted from setting to setting: the gold band! no, the blue! wait …. which was the first one? is the octagonal too much? and the consultant chimed in with her helpful exegesis: urban geometrics …. romantic florals …. timeless elegance …. flamboyant flash …. and even though I'd kept saying sure, that one's fine, that one too, I'd be happy with either, your decision Kits, the consultant kept showing us more and more settings, clearly hoping to wheedle some firmer show of preference…†   (source)
  • Dempton approached with a smile beneath his flamboyant red mustache.†   (source)
  • To the west, the bottomland along the river was overgrown with low tangles of gissen, woman-grove root, and a flamboyant red fern the Consul did not recognize, all growing around mud marshes and miniature lagoons which stretched another kilometer or so to bluffs where scrub everblues clung to any bare spot between granite slabs.†   (source)
  • "Holmes is greatly given to lying with a sort of florid ornamentation," Geyer wrote, "and all of his stories are decorated with flamboyant draperies, intended by him to strengthen the plausibility of his statements.†   (source)
  • James is a literary realist, hardly the most flamboyantly symbolic of writers, but when he can kill off a character in a highly lifelike way while employing an apt metaphor for her demise, he doesn't hesitate.†   (source)
  • "Stenton found this one first," she said about the octopus, which was now rising from the floor, slowly, flamboyantly.†   (source)
  • Its only hint of flamboyance was a five-pointed star atop the neon sign in the parking lot.†   (source)
  • Chacko's hero, Comrade E. M. S. Namboodiripad, the flamboyant Brahmin high priest of Marxism in Kerala, became Chief Minister of the first ever democratically elected Communist government in the world.†   (source)
  • A Methodist tray: not flamboyant, but quietly affirmative of its own worth.†   (source)
  • The bowl itself is more intimate than the flamboyant exterior would suggest, and it feels like we're in the belly of a violin or cello, with two thousand seats clinging to the sides of the sound box.†   (source)
  • The Old Duke had turned his back on the horns, cape thrown flamboyantly over one arm, while cheers rained down from the stands.†   (source)
  • He was her soul mate, her true other half, though they weren't as flamboyant about their relationship as Rosalie and Emmett were.†   (source)
  • Both in art and in real life, we meet pompous and flamboyant forms of self-expression, while at the same time there arose a monastic movement, turning away from the world.†   (source)
  • My stocking seams were straight, my black shoes cracked, but polished, and my red wool suit flamboyant as my plans.†   (source)
  • The flamboyants, I remember, were in full bloom.†   (source)
  • One of their more flamboyant escapades has become a proud family legend.†   (source)
  • He lacked Jan Stenbeck's flamboyance and did not spread himself all over the tabloids like Percy Barnevik.†   (source)
  • Who's that flamboyant rock 'n' roll chap from the '70s—Elton John?†   (source)
  • He seemed at ease, listening as Marcia chattered on, her hands gesturing flamboyantly.†   (source)
  • They seemed to be shrinking away from any contact with their flamboyantly and paradoxically outlined private parts.†   (source)
  • One day I was in the prison courtyard at the Fort doing my daily exercises, which consisted of jogging, running in place, push-ups,and sit-ups, when I was approached by a tall, handsome Indian fellow named Moosa Dinath whom I had known slightly as a prosperous, even flamboyant businessman.†   (source)
  • The place was vintage Woolf, decorated floor to ceiling in flamboyant cowboy memorabilia.†   (source)
  • The women, in the flamboyantly colored shalwar kamiz and shawls common among the Wakhi, performed the dast ba greeting, laying their palms tenderly on Mortenson's cheek and kissing the back of their own hands as local custom dictated.†   (source)
  • I don't remember what I wore, only that Gallagher, who was known on campus for flamboyant dress and just the right hat, wore a tailored suit and sensible shoes.†   (source)
  • The false black mustache was a flamboyant organ-grinder's, and he wore them both to the basketball game one day when he felt he could endure his loneliness no longer.†   (source)
  • A troupe of musicians in flamboyant costumes passed by, on their way to an opera performance.†   (source)
  • Good to know Isabelle's flamboyant affection hadn't suffered under the current circumstances.†   (source)
  • Like Frederick the Great, he made a flamboyant show of his love for dogs, keeping two or three with him most of the time.†   (source)
  • His face was solemn, attractively even featured, his movements restrained and controlled as he assisted the more flamboyant senator out of his cashmere overcoat.†   (source)
  • He had promise once, more than I let him know, but he let it all go by the boards in a flamboyant quest for his own personal grail.†   (source)
  • The driver turns left on Palmas Street with its matched rows of closely set two-story houses, all painted a flamboyant yellow.†   (source)
  • His brother Joe, at twenty-eight years old, is a flamboyant naval aviator soon to see action flying antisubmarine missions against the Nazis in Europe.†   (source)
  • As they passed by her, Lee caught the variety of tones, some muted, some sophisticated, some flamboyant.†   (source)
  • With LBJ, the uninhibited rhetoric and flamboyant style of Texas politics—plus the ability to teach it either way—hit Washington and brought to town regional dialects that the country wasn't used to hearing from presidents.†   (source)
  • I'm going to stop being excitable and flamboyant.†   (source)
  • At breakfast we could watch the flamboyant tree and lavender-cotton catch fire.†   (source)
  • The colour of flamboyant flowers.†   (source)
  • I was somewhat dismayed to discover a smear of Leslie's lipstick, stale but still flamboyantly vermilion, on the inner edge of the lapel, but I had managed with a lot of spit and a certain readjustment to make the stain practically invisible, or enough so that my father would probably not notice.†   (source)
  • Her taste in clothes was sound rather than flamboyant, but I considered the suit smashing, and would have nothing else.†   (source)
  • And I watched him walk up the red street, tall and sad and slow below the leafless flamboyants, past the rough market shacks of his town.†   (source)
  • Be noisy, leaves, as you flutter down— Still more flamboyantly, with more abandon!†   (source)
  • That flamboyant ego, for which he was both loved and despised, never deserted him.†   (source)
  • Mr. Nesbitt's twin passed close to her, and down the street he turned flamboyantly and entered what must have been his own door, splashing frantically through a puddle.†   (source)
  • As was normal, the handwriting on each ballot was disguised by block printing or flamboyant script.†   (source)
  • For Easter mass, I dressed in glorious yellow with a flamboyant blossom in my hair.†   (source)
  • Dempton approached with a smile beneath his flamboyant red mustache.†   (source)
  • His trident beard was purple, his flamboyant mustachios gold, his long curls equal parts of both.†   (source)
  • When they shouted, "Do it again, Uncle Travis!" he jumped to his feet with equal flamboyance.†   (source)
  • The Lyseni was a sleek, smiling man whose flamboyance was a byword on both sides of the narrow sea.†   (source)
  • Details of a sordid affair with the flamboyant Monroe would have ruined the image of Camelot.†   (source)
  • 'If you are buried under a flamboyant tree: I said, 'your soul is lifted up when it flowers.†   (source)
  • But soldiering, even for the Confederate cause, is far too mundane for his flamboyant personality.†   (source)
  • Clothes varied from trim professional suits to jeans to flamboyant caftans and smocks.†   (source)
  • The flamboyant trees were in new leaf, feathery, a delicate green.†   (source)
  • The feathery leaves of the flamboyant trees made no shade; the sun struck right through.†   (source)
  • From the shop I would see the rain beating down the flamboyant trees in the market square.†   (source)
  • By and by, I recognized the Sherpa as Fischer's flamboyant sirdar, Lo sang Jangbu, and the climber in yellow as Sandy Pittman.†   (source)
  • There's a large tiled area in the center of the room that serves as everything from a dance floor, to a stage for the performers who come and go, to another spot to mingle with the flamboyantly dressed guests.†   (source)
  • Having reached their side of the street, he strode off along the pavement, drawing many curious glances due to the flamboyantly cut suit of plum velvet that he was wearing.†   (source)
  • Following the exit of a small, flamboyantly dressed woman from Mr. McSwiney's apartment, Owen and I were admitted to the teacher's untidy hovel; the disappointingly small size of the departing singer's bosom was a contradiction to the power we had heard in her voice—but we were impressed by the air of professional disorder that greeted us in Graham McSwiney's studio.†   (source)
  • The walls are painted in flamboyant colors: hibiscus pink, lilac, pistachio, and are crowded with clusters of paintings and drawings and photographs.†   (source)
  • He suspects now that the eyes did not originate with Mrs. Moodie, and wonders what other parts of her narrative were due to MacKenzie's own flamboyant tastes as a raconteur.†   (source)
  • But already in my memory, it has happened and I am standing under those blazing trees—flamboyants in bloom in my imagination, not having seen those sugar maples he spoke of.†   (source)
  • She has turned out a charming young woman, everything one might wish for, and displayed a courtesy and gentle kindness many would admire, and which is worth so much more than flamboyant good looks.†   (source)
  • There was also Franklin's particular friend and near neighbor at Passy, the flamboyant, once-beautiful Madame Helvetius, widow of the acclaimed philosophe Claude-Adrien Helvetius, who lived amid a menagerie of chickens, ducks, birds in aviaries, dogs, cats, and pet deer.†   (source)
  • Prendahl na Ghezn was a thickset Ghiscari with a broad face and dark hair going grey; Sailor the Bald had a twisting scar across his pale Qartheen cheek; and Daario Naharis was flamboyant even for a Tyroshi.†   (source)
  • Slowly, as if he had just noticed the presence of the soldiers and considered it to be of little importance, Roran raised his gale from the table to regard a small bearded man with a flamboyantly plumed helm who sat before him on an enormous black war-horse, which was heaving like a pair of bellows.†   (source)
  • John Wilkes Booth is one of eight children born to his flamboyant actor father, Junius Brutus Booth, a rogue if there ever was one.†   (source)
  • Here were the black-and-white couples, defiantly white, flamboyantly black; and the Italians watched them, hating them, hating, in fact, all the Villagers, who gave their streets a bad name.†   (source)
  • But in striking contrast, several of the most powerful speakers in Parliament, like the flamboyant Lord Mayor of London, John Wilkes, and the leading Whig intellectual, Edmund Burke, had voiced ardent support for and admiration of the Americans.†   (source)
  • Without the flamboyant Tyroshi, she had no hold on the Stormcrows, many of whom had been followers of Prendahl na Ghezn and Sailor the Bald.†   (source)
  • As the light came up slowly she was being swirled fast, "floating" (as ever confident of surviving this too) alongside branches and leaves, the dawn starting to hit flamboyant trees as she slipped past them like a dark log, shoes lost, false breast lost.†   (source)
  • The flamboyant Lyseni princeling had not been pleased to be assigned the rear guard, but it was clear that Ser Imry trusted him no more than Stannis did.†   (source)
  • There's something about the vegetation, too, that I respond to instinctively—the stunning bougainvillea, the flamboyants and jacarandas, the orchids growing from the trunks of the mysterious ceiba trees.†   (source)
  • The planes were decorated with flamboyant squadron emblems illustrating such laudable ideals as Courage, Might, Justice, Truth, Liberty, Love, Honor and Patriotism that were painted out at once by Milo's mechanics with a double coat of flat white and replaced in garish purple with the stenciled name M & M ENTERPRISES, FINE FRUITS AND PRODUCE.†   (source)
  • He is the sort of man who rides into battle wearing a flamboyant red kerchief around his neck and accompanied by a brass band.†   (source)
  • It's not that the Kennedy clan doesn't like Sinatra—although Jackie can't stand him—but they prefer to keep the flamboyant singer at arm's length.†   (source)
  • 'Stupido!' she shouted back at him, and smacked him loudly and flamboyantly on the chest with the back of her hand.†   (source)
  • I walked with her to the landing: the shadow of the house over the yard, the trees above the houses and the wooden outbuildings, the golden afternoon light, the dust in the air, the flamboyant blooms, the cooking smoke.†   (source)
  • The smoke from charcoal braziers and other open fires rose blue among the imported ornamental trees—cassia, breadfruit, frangipani, flamboyant—and gave a touch of the forest village to a residential area where, as I had heard, in the old days neither Africans nor Asians were permitted to live.†   (source)
  • He was withered, drawn; she flamboyant, careless.†   (source)
  • …Lad, Eminent Victorians, some volumes of Georgian Poetry, Sinister Street, and South Wind—and my earliest friends fitted well into this background; they were Collins, a Wykehamist, an embryo don, a man of solid reading and childlike humor, and a small circle of college intellectuals, who maintained a middle course of culture between the flamboyant "aesthetes" and the proletarian scholars who scrambled fiercely for facts in the lodging houses of the Iffley Road and Wellington Square.†   (source)
  • I can see him corrupting Henry gradually into the purlieus of elegance, with no foreword, no warning, the postulation to come after the fact, exposing Henry slowly to the surface aspect—the architecture a little curious, a little femininely flamboyant and therefore to Henry opulent, sensuous, sinful; the inference of great and easy wealth measured by steamboat loads in place of a tedious inching of sweating human figures across cotton fields; the flash and glitter of a myriad carriage…†   (source)
  • Yet like children we tell each other stories, and to decorate them we make up these ridiculous, flamboyant, beautiful phrases.†   (source)
  • He could no more resist pricking the conceits, the hypocrisies and the flamboyant patriotism of those about him than a small boy can resist putting a pin into a balloon.†   (source)
  • Translation falls especially short of this conceit which carries the whole flamboyance of the Spanish language.†   (source)
  • 9 THE EVIDENCE OF MR. HARDMAN The last of the first-class passengers to be interviewed, Mr. Hardman, was the big flamboyant American who had shared a table with the Italian and the valet.†   (source)
  • The cloisters had the new-fashioned flamboyant arches, in whose graceful frames the hawks stood out with noble indifference— a jerfalcon, a goshawk, a falcon and her tiercel, and four little merlins who had been kept all winter, yet had survived.†   (source)
  • The flamboyant way he had of making love to her was curious to me--his leg advanced between her legs and his fingers spread on her face.†   (source)
  • When she was well enough--she suffered from rheumatism and had female disorders--she worked in the wrapping department of a soap factory on the North Branch; and when she was at home sat with her mother in the kitchen, wrapped in a flamboyant floral material, heavy black hair slipping back loose and tuberous from a topknot, drinking coffee, knitting, reading, shaving her legs, playing operettas on the gramophone, painting her nails, and, doing these necessary or half-necessary or…†   (source)
  • Simon's patience and swallowing were worse to me than his wrath or flamboyance--that shabby compulsory physical patience.†   (source)
  • Aziz flamboyant, was patronizing Mrs. Moore.†   (source)
  • He was worried, for all his flamboyance.†   (source)
  • One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.†   (source)
  • The entrance was too modern to be flamboyant with pillars; it was quiet, shrewd, neat.†   (source)
  • Ingram was a gaunt man with flamboyant hair, weather-beaten cheeks, and worried eyes.†   (source)
  • …them was as rich, and as circumscribed in its range, as though I had been standing before the Lady-altar, and the flowers, themselves adorned also, held out each its little bunch of glittering stamens with an air of inattention, fine, radiating 'nerves' in the flamboyant style of architecture, like those which, in church, framed the stair to the rood-loft or closed the perpendicular tracery of the windows, but here spread out into pools of fleshy white, like strawberry-beds in spring.†   (source)
  • The river road led past rocky field slopes, deep glens, woods flamboyant now with September, to Mendota, white walls and a spire among trees beneath a hill, old-world in its placid ease.†   (source)
  • His flamboyance was extinguished; and in neat, commonplace, shabby clothes he hurried, a subdued, unassuming little man, through the departments as though anxious to escape notice.†   (source)
  • The Gormer MILIEU represented a social out-skirt which Lily had always fastidiously avoided; but it struck her, now that she was in it, as only a flamboyant copy of her own world, a caricature approximating the real thing as the "society play" approaches the manners of the drawing-room.†   (source)
  • And it may be hard to believe, but the next hour was consumed by the inexhaustible intellectual fracas that grew out of Herr Settembrini's harmless, though flamboyant remarks.†   (source)
  • …he had pumped a reluctant graduate during the previous summer, excited his curiosity: Ivy, detached and breathlessly aristocratic; Cottage, an impressive milange of brilliant adventurers and well-dressed philanderers; Tiger Inn, broad-shouldered and athletic, vitalized by an honest elaboration of prep-school standards; Cap and Gown, anti-alcoholic, faintly religious and politically powerful; flamboyant Colonial; literary Quadrangle; and the dozen others, varying in age and position.†   (source)
  • The shops show the same standardized, nationally advertised wares; the newspapers of sections three thousand miles apart have the same "syndicated features"; the boy in Arkansas displays just such a flamboyant ready-made suit as is found on just such a boy in Delaware, both of them iterate the same slang phrases from the same sporting-pages, and if one of them is in college and the other is a barber, no one may surmise which is which.†   (source)
  • She was wearing a tweed jacket, with a tam, a flamboyant scarf, and the first breeches any girl had dared to display in Nautilus.†   (source)
  • At sunset he sat on the back stoop (a very interesting and not too broken soap-box) and from the flamboyant horizon the open country flowed across the thin band of the railroad to his feet.†   (source)
  • Thus it came to pass that in the Sunday Advocate-Times, under a picture of Dr. Drew at his earnestest, with eyes alert, jaw as granite, and rustic lock flamboyant, appeared an inscription—a wood-pulp tablet conferring twenty-four hours' immortality: The Rev. Dr. John Jennison Drew, M.A., pastor of the beautiful Chatham Road Presbyterian Church in lovely Floral Heights, is a wizard soul-winner.†   (source)
  • Since their evening in Minneapolis he had drunk and debated and flamboyantly ridden to obscure but vinuous destinations with too many people.†   (source)
  • Flamboyantly smoking cigars they sat in a box at the burlesque show, their feet up on the rail, while a chorus of twenty daubed, worried, and inextinguishably respectable grandams swung their legs in the more elementary chorus-evolutions, and a Jewish comedian made vicious fun of Jews.†   (source)
  • V. With broad porches and low roof, among bright flamboyants and the cheerful sago palms, the bungalow of Penrith Lodge lay high on a crest, looking across the ugly flat of the town to the wash of sea.†   (source)
  • When the maples fluttered beneath their window in the breeze that sprang up with the beginning of twilight, when the amiable citizens of Nautilus had driven home to supper in their shaky Fords, Leora had persuaded him that Pickerbaugh's flamboyance would not interfere with his own work, that in any case they would not remain in Nautilus forever, that he was impatient, and that she loved him dearly.†   (source)
  • The mirrors, the pictures had great flamboyant frames; the ceiling was deeply vaulted and painted over with naked muses and cherubs.†   (source)
  • He's pleasant looking and tallish, his dress unflamboyant but neat and usually color coordinated.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unflamboyant means not and reverses the meaning of flamboyant. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Unimaginative but virtuous, unflamboyant but solid, he was good in the religious sense of that oft-abused word.†   (source)
  • An important by-product of the unflamboyant language is to make the proper names stand out in the line.†   (source)
  • And thanks to the flamboyant method of escape I had chosen, attention was bound to be focused on Eldridge Manor in short order.†   (source)
  • To make up for the falling off of this old and flamboyant custom, the more recent immigrants have brought with them the names of the capitals and other great cities of their fatherlands.†   (source)
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