flamboyance
IPA: fɫæmbˈɔɪʌns
noun
- The condition of being flamboyant.
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Examples of "flamboyance" in Sentences
- Snow fields his position the way Ozzie Smith fielded his, with a certain flamboyance.
- Pigliucci's embarrassment is a result of his own "flamboyance" - further in evidence at his
- 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).
- * 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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