Adjective : flamboyant colors. ,the flamboyant idol of international society. ,flamboyant speeches. From Dictionary.com.
How much of it is just flamboyancy and showmanship?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2005] Reference
Cohen is definitely making fun of homophobia but is also making of the flamboyancy of it all. From Wordnik.com. [Gay-Friendly Bruno Reshoots Rumored | /Film] Reference
You can be witty, but I just never ... ... the real flamboyancy never really did a lot for me. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Jane Squires, September 21, 2002. Interview R-0192. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Oh well, he obviously wants very badly to be famous, so the flamboyancy is understandable I suppose. From Wordnik.com. [Kara DioGuardi Says Adam Lambert is Gay, The View; Lambert Coming Out Rolling Stone Cover?] Reference
He is an eccentrically complex character and I just really adore his art and bizarre flamboyancy as an artist and human being. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight Lexicon » Rob Pattinson as Dali] Reference
If you are looking for a classic Argento movie, full of style, flamboyancy and soaked in blood, The Card Player is not your best bet. From Wordnik.com. [The Card Player (2004)] Reference
Concerns about Obama start with his anonymity, move on to perceived naiveté and the flamboyancy of the Obama phenomenon that overstep bounds of propriety. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Goor: Israelis Weigh The Candiates, Palin's Church May Worry Them Most] Reference
She thought it was Boy George, and I made an argument for the Smiths, but we both agreed that there is just no space in our culture for the don't-ask-don't-tell flamboyancy that saturated our youth. From Wordnik.com. [circle gets a square] Reference
Chase Utley doesn't have Reggie Jackson's flamboyancy. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference
Walker played with his usual flamboyancy and confidence. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
The touch of flamboyancy that she had dreaded was absent. From Wordnik.com. [Final Curtain]
Are you aware that some gays cannot hide their flamboyancy?. From Wordnik.com. [Gay/Lesbian Forum] Reference
The flamboyancy is disturbing & the cutoff gloves are hilarious. From Wordnik.com. [Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome] Reference
Genius: Ronnie O'Sullivan said Alex Higgins 'flamboyancy is what attracted him to snooker. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Modi, saying \ "flamboyancy\" has nothing to do with cricket and he would evolve his own style of working. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
Furthermore, Nick's powerful friends disapprove of Gregory's flamboyancy and seek to expose him as a fraud. From Wordnik.com. [digitallyOBSESSED.com DVD News and Reviews] Reference
The nod to flamboyancy was most obvious in his prints, which were oversized photo images of gems and jewelry. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
Her face was refined, her eyes large and intelligent; and her neat, well-fitting clothes did not suggest the flamboyancy of Polly. From Wordnik.com. [Tommy] Reference
What is historically accredited to him is such a contrast of the kind of character with which he is portrayed in respect to flamboyancy. From Wordnik.com. [SooNews.ca Headlines] Reference
Eton type, and the accomplished Henry Nettleship, who detested flamboyancy, and taught us to admire Newman's incomparable easiness and grace. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography] Reference
Ready To Roll followed with a controlled flamboyancy on Berkfinger's behalf but as the chorus approached, the mischievous tune held up to its title. From Wordnik.com. [FasterLouder.com.au > Australia's leading independent live music hub. Stock up on music and tour news, reviews, gig photos and idle gossip, or bitch to your heart's content in the forums.] Reference
Prose in those days, -- that is, rhetoric, -- was tending ever more to flamboyancy and extravagance: a current which Quintilian stood against valiantly. From Wordnik.com. [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference
Plato, in enduring stone, in law and custom more imperishable still, against the principle of flamboyancy or fluidity in things, and in men's thoughts about them. From Wordnik.com. [Plato and Platonism] Reference
Apart from the obvious difference of emotional tone, the points of resemblance were striking: the apparent frankness, the flamboyancy, the wholehearted courage, the completeness of the job. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Ghost]
It did not pine, it did not droop; there was no more an atom of hanging too much than there was a portion inflated by flamboyancy; it did not assert itself; it bore notice without seeking it. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful Lady] Reference
He had the curiosity as to the world and everything in it that is the divine right of youth, and he had the gaiety, the exuberance, the flamboyancy, the fun of the youth destined to do and to triumph. From Wordnik.com. [Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties] Reference
Indeed, instead of storming people's homes in the quiet hours before dawn, the PA security apparatus could have summoned the "wanted persons" for questioning, without all this hubris and flamboyancy. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
"I think it's a risk factor in our way - throw somebody in there that's got a bit of flamboyancy about his game, throw someone in there that can add that little bit of spark to our footy team," Stuart said. From Wordnik.com. [The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines] Reference
Gentlemen, this fashion trend highlights the simplicity of a country life full of big-city style; still, such classic, Western dressing expresses the dangerous spontaneity of a cowboy lifestyle without flamboyancy. From Wordnik.com. [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference
Meredith’s flamboyancy has a great ancestry behind it; we cannot avoid all memory of Shakespeare. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
Flandry had left flamboyancy outside. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
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