The rest of the time, his flourishes are a little self-conscious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

& Spa mixes modern comforts with more traditional flourishes, which is uniquely rare, '' he added.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Freedom of expression flourishes as the psychology of fear which characterised Soviet rule has evaporated.    From Wordnik.com.  [At The Threshold: The Implications of Ukraine's New Constitution] Reference

Stabbing it results in a series of sword flourishes, holding it down guards against projectiles and attacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eurogamer] Reference

(He says that the Jordanian regime "flourishes" (p. 419) under King PlayStation).    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuesday, September 30, 2008] Reference

It is one of those rhetorical flourishes which is so attractive, like the "thousand points of light.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Rick Ayers: Taking Back the Narrative from Arne Duncan] Reference

There hadn't been any "flourishes" in a Bond film since OHMSS.    From Wordnik.com.  [CommanderBond.net] Reference

Hollywood flourishes because it changes as the world does.    From Wordnik.com.  [Film’s New Anxiety of Influence] Reference

There are, however, paragons among whom boredom flourishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in Electronica] Reference

Even where manufacturing flourishes, the unskilled won't find jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Anyone Spare A Job?] Reference

The stock market flourishes or falters according to the prevailing mood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Erosion Of Confidence] Reference

He is a master motivator whose rhetorical flourishes seem perfectly nuanced.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fast Break In Boston] Reference

But in China, numbers can often seem little more than rhetorical flourishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why China Cooks The Books] Reference

But so much of Brazilian culture already flourishes from the poorest regions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture For The Masses] Reference

The stories would be short and graphic — newswire copy with pulp flourishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ur-Text of a Tabloid Age] Reference

So it may come as a surprise that today it flourishes mostly outside the oil patch.    From Wordnik.com.  [MOVING BEYOND OIL] Reference

Even the added flourishes – cider apple purée, soy and ginger – didn't irritate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Restaurant review: Kota] Reference

More than two decades on, an Iraqi sensibility flourishes in plenty of unlikely places.    From Wordnik.com.  [Longing To Return] Reference

He has not only cut his bouffant hairdo, he's trimmed his rhetorical flourishes as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Lives: Is Bush Unbeatable In 2004 Election?] Reference

Sibling rivalry flourishes, complete with back-stabbing and false alliances with bullies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seema Jilani: Pakistanis & Afghans: Brothers in the Dysfunctional Family of Muslim Countries] Reference

He will suffer a text, suffer the rhetorical flourishes, wince and mumble his way through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Inside] Reference

Jason Treuting is now adding some flourishes to what we'll call the Home Depot Pipe-a-phone.    From Wordnik.com.  [So Percussion, Playing Pipes Bought for A Song] Reference

There are no flourishes sitting at the bar, just cold beer or a well-made martini or gimlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classics on Tap] Reference

Orchestral flourishes sweep in and out but smartly never overpower or overdramatize the songs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Album review: Magic Kids, "Memphis"] Reference

Enterprise flourishes, translating to higher incomes and company profits for the taxman to share.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Orthodoxy] Reference

And while racism exists everywhere, it flourishes under certain historical and cultural conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Best Seller About Racism] Reference

Yes, there's more upside if a new business flourishes, but the trade-off is less financial security.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Time Around] Reference

Finding excuses for interpretive flourishes everywhere, Bolton makes these songs inarguably his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND] Reference

Instead of maximizing the tale's urgency, the melodramatic flourishes just make it seem more generic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hostage Heat] Reference

Innovation still flourishes; most Microsoft rivals survive, and consumers seem to benefit from intense competition.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tycoon For Our Times?] Reference

Feist performed her hit "1234" with only an acoustic guitar and some brief flourishes from a seven-piece brass band.    From Wordnik.com.  [They Tried to Make Me Hate the Grammys…] Reference

When Prince Abdullah goes back to the ranch on April 25, the theatrical flourishes are likely to be President Bush's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oval: Summit Talk] Reference

Now the disease sows further instability that, in turn, ensures the kind of desperate conditions where AIDS flourishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plague Years] Reference

Pretty much everything else in the world may be yo-yoing irreversibly into financial collapse, but Sky still flourishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is there ever no sports news on Sky?] Reference

Using ingredients from the Pacific Northwest in an Asian style, her special flourishes include wrapping rockfish in rice paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [RESTAURANTS LOCAL FLAIR] Reference

In flourishes of rhetoric typical of the regime, North Korea vowed to respond with a "sacred war" and a "powerful nuclear deterrence.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Warning to Pyongyang] Reference

Hanoi has improved its own roads, rails and ports to such an extent that light manufacturing now flourishes there and in nearby Haiphong.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Song of the South] Reference

Unless it's what a client specifically requests, he tries to get away from that "Indochine" look -- French art deco with Asian flourishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global By Design] Reference

Ghorbanifar was a Persian carpet dealer, a former secret policeman to the Shah, a rumored Israeli spy ... but he flourishes in other books.    From Wordnik.com.  [As The Shadows Lengthened] Reference