So tearing my eyes away, I paid attention to what my flamboyant friend was saying. |
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He was this wonderful flamboyant person, very funny, and he had lots of energy. |
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Tragically, he died just a few months later in a plane crash and the world of golf lost its most flamboyant personality. |
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The seventeenth-century civil wars are a real treat to do with flamboyant plumes, baggy trousers and lots of colour. |
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The garish jackets and flamboyant ties were out in force as more than 2,000 people packed York Minster to celebrate his life. |
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He was already beginning to develop an idiosyncratic and flamboyant style of dress. |
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Indian royal ritual and garments with their glittering gold work and flamboyant colours were adopted by Indonesian ruling princes. |
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There are many more examples of this type of flamboyant ironwork tracery sufficient to indicate that the style was rooted in the Low Countries. |
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They rebuilt the old basilica into a grand, very flamboyant Gothic edifice. |
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Depending on the month of your excursion the yellow poui, the red flamboyant, or the lavender jacaranda trees will be in bloom. |
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The company today rubbished rumours that its flamboyant founder was flying the coop. |
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While some rode on decorated floats, others paraded in flamboyant costumes. |
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Karadzic, the exhibitionist politician, could not resist inventing a flamboyant new identity as a bearded New Age healer. |
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Now, thanks to a well-meaning TV movie from the USA Network, we get a historical docudrama about this flamboyant, fearless leader. |
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When I first arrived at the Akademie Schloss Solitude near Stuttgart, Germany, I was struck by a flamboyant baroque and rococo construction. |
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This rolling stone also was a flamboyant, hard-drinking male chauvinist and dare-devil. |
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It's an undeniably theatrical production, as flamboyant as a Broadway musical. |
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Asymmetry, flamboyant ruching and fabric combinations play key roles in the duo's collection. |
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Moths are generally distinguished from butterflies by their drabness, yet the luna moth is almost flamboyant. |
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The bar staff were busy yet managed to serve the drinks in an attentive and flamboyant manner. |
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For the flamboyant Lyon, who bore a tattoo of a tiger's head on his chest that gave the mission its name, it was also personal. |
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The gases, expelled as jets, drive out debris that had been embedded in the ice, endowing comets with their flamboyant tails. |
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We at have possibly grown a little too old to keep it touch with the sapiosexual, flamboyant youth. |
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He was witty, teasing and flamboyant and his dialogue delivery racy and sardonic. |
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New colours jump vibrantly from the concrete walls freshly painted with pastels, earth tones and flamboyant azure. |
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Green, one of the most flamboyant figures in the world of retailing, was characteristic in his put-down. |
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Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, resides demurely in the shadow cast by its more flamboyant sister city, Sydney. |
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With his flowing blond mane, he was a naturally flamboyant figure and he backed it up with his deeds on the pitch. |
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Thick, white walls were made flamboyant by ornate balconies and luxurious story-length windows. |
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The sleeves and gowns balloon out with layers of lace in an overstated and flamboyant style. |
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Everyone who was anyone stepped out in his flamboyant gowns made from extravagantly decorated fabrics. |
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Her heart swelled for some affection, but she eased herself so not to appear flamboyant. |
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He hasn't a charismatic figure or a flamboyant style, but he is definitely mild, modest and mellow. |
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These guys all follow set patterns and, like any good movie serial killer, they're too open and flamboyant in their actions. |
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His jerkin was decorated by a flamboyant lace frill around the neck, and like Tudor he carried a sword attached to a belt round his waist. |
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This was costly to construct, flamboyant, and characterized by ogee arches, flowing and inventive window tracery, and lighter vaulting. |
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Witty, flamboyant and scandalous, he was also a diarist in the tradition of Samuel Pepys. |
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Their looks and attitudes came from their flamboyant father Darcy, rather than their beautiful and dainty mother Josie. |
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My father, a flamboyant millionaire, enjoyed spending his money on toys and the trappings of success. |
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This is the festive season where Sierra Leoneans often celebrate with families in a flamboyant and joyous manner. |
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Last month, the flamboyant Messier appeared to accept his downfall with uncharacteristic humility, and departed. |
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She blew a very flamboyant kiss his way, and she saw him blush before she practically skipped off. |
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With the flamboyant, unsubstantiated claims come exaggerated insults directed at anyone who criticises or questions his work. |
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Where other songsmiths were personally flamboyant, he was fastidious, carefully barbered, turned out in the best suits he could afford. |
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Gayle, usually the flamboyant strokemaker, played a subdued innings with only rare sightings of his trademark drives and cuts. |
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The textile designer Ciaran Sweeney is a man of many fabrics, but he is best known for his flamboyant work with silk and silk velvet. |
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The flamboyant court of Burgundy was a spectacular expression of princely prestige and affluence. |
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The downstairs was for business and was simple in its interior, while the upstairs was used for entertaining and was far more flamboyant. |
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Their flamboyant style contrasted with established mournful acts on the shortlist, such as Radiohead and Coldplay. |
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Boyd had a daring, flamboyant style, and often jumped over bank counters in his lightning quick hold-ups. |
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It showed as low tackle followed low tackle, followed by the odd flamboyant dive or five. |
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And on his emergence from Howard University Hospital yesterday, the flamboyant rapper managed to stay staggeringly on-message. |
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Although the official site is comprehensive and impressive, it is straight-laced compared to the more flamboyant style of the fansite. |
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I then changed my tactics and decided that I was going to go for broke with a more flamboyant bet. |
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The flamboyant loyalist has been accused of possessing and concealing criminal property. |
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The pagri was seized upon by our maharajas as the proper headgear to go with their flamboyant robes made of rich silks and brocade. |
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A rival program at a campus across town, along with their flamboyant, ruthless coach, has their eye on the talented percussionist. |
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He had choreographed Broadway shows, and had become commercial and flamboyant. |
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But he seemed ill at ease in Liszt's flamboyant Spanish Rhapsody, which in his hands wanted for inflection, contrast and affective intensity. |
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Did the flamboyant personality on television elbow his way into the spotlight, or was he maligned by the newspaper? |
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Lee's flamboyant personality and quick, cool, dry wit are trademarks of this great man of musical theatre. |
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The other type loud and flamboyant, gregarious and unrestrained, life-loving and vigorous, passionate and strong. |
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A flamboyant personality with a personal touch, most that had never even met him felt that they knew him as a friend. |
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The atmosphere was electric as they took to the stage in bright glittering and flamboyant costumes. |
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The staging just about passes muster and it is enlivened by vivid sets and flamboyant costumes. |
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Numerous local schools and organisations took part in the event with colourful floats and flamboyant outfits. |
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Her formula for stimulating warm thoughts of the tropics by applying flamboyant colours to fluid fabrics is paying off. |
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One TV campaign features a glamorous woman flaunting flamboyant designer clothes in a subway car. |
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Famous for his flamboyant style, the baron looked drawn and haggard after two nights in police cells. |
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Come dressed in a classy yet flamboyant style, we're after freakish glamour. |
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She was embarrassed by what she called my flamboyant behaviour. |
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Whilst the guitarist needs to suffer for his art more and lose the baseball cap, you only notice this because their singer is a flamboyant individual. |
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He is a rash, flamboyant warrior given to excesses of drink and courage. |
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The colourful and flamboyant solicitor, famous for his Cuban cigars, quick wit, and genial sense of devilment, attained folk hero status among the showbiz fraternity. |
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British sculptor, painter, and designer, a flamboyant personality whose flair for self-publicity has helped him become the most famous British artist of his generation. |
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However, the flamboyant politician, who was made deputy president in 1999 and is reportedly in debt, is remembered by colleagues as being careless with money. |
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Through his wardrobe, he positioned himself as the flamboyant boss man and the irreproachable believer. |
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If you want to distract attention from your top half, go for a plain colour and style on top and a sexier bottom with side ties or lots of flamboyant detail. |
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Lapidus became notorious in the 1950s, an era that liked its modernism discreet, for flamboyant hotel designs that were often called gaudy, garish, splashy and colossal. |
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The weekend is downsized to being a jazzy, glitzy flamboyant festival. |
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Outlining the trends of this season, Manu says long and short jacket in pastel shades with light embroidery are in vogue with bright electric ones for the flamboyant. |
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We currently seem to believe that the more flamboyant the send-off, as our nearest and dearest exit stage left, the more virtuous or enlightened a breed we are. |
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The festival also promises colourful and flamboyant floral demonstrations. |
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By the early 1950s Minton, with his private income, flamboyant personality and prodigious talent, was a celebrity in the mould of today's Britart pack. |
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All their inside street dope comes from a flamboyant restaurateur. |
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There is even the prospect that the human intellect might be a by-product of sexual selection, comparable to the peacock's flamboyant tail feathers. |
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His dress borders on the flamboyant yet never digresses to gaudiness. |
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She is strong and passionate, with endless, beaming smiles and deep laughs, a love of bright colours, and a flamboyant style that includes a passion for eye-raising hats. |
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I've already binned the flamboyant curtain pelmets from two rooms and can't wait to get my hands on the oversized brown smoke-glass lamp shade with twiddly gold bits. |
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With his handlebar moustache and penchant for multi-coloured bow ties, flamboyant Waterford architect Oliver Dempsey is used to standing out in the crowd. |
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Fitting his flamboyant personality, he led the way with his own choice of costume, a rainbow-coloured cope and mitre, which he had designed and made for the occasion. |
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You can call my language flamboyant but it is also biblical. |
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This is due to a phenomenon known as allelopathy where there are chemicals in the leaves, flowers and stems of the flamboyant which inhibit the growth of other plants. |
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Edmilson surged forward from the back, worked a flamboyant one-two with Ronaldo and smashed the ball home with a bicycle kick from the edge of the six-yard box. |
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Having been to Royal Ascot in Berkshire last year, my verdict was that the northern meeting was less flamboyant and eccentric, but more flighty and fashionable. |
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If to many it also seemed barmy, it was a flamboyant, newsworthy sort of barminess. |
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They turn out a flamboyant blend of jazz, folk, funk and classical guitar, with flourishes of Latin acoustic guitar of a most impressive standard. |
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If you think of kimonos or school uniforms when you think of Japanese fashion, you're missing out on the best and most flamboyant outfits that Japan has to offer the world. |
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Let's show the world that we can be lucid and enthusiastic explainers of recondite ideas, not merely the flamboyant show-offs that unfair stereotypes so often paint us to be. |
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These flamboyant Turkish uniformed troops also had muskets with bayonets of this form, and a number of yataghan blade bayonets appeared for both U.S. and Confederate forces. |
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The addition of Mozambican vocalist Jaco Maria added a flamboyant dimension to the skilled band with lyrics in Shope, Portuguese, Bitonga, English and Zulu. |
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Meanwhile, the diaries reveal a later life of flamboyant perversity. |
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The former is a flamboyant actor, the latter a tweedily sedate director. |
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One is famous for his big glasses and his flamboyant dress sense, whilst the other is known for his tight fitting trousers and his gravelly voice. |
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He made himself larger than life in multi-storey platforms and drew attention to his glasses, rather than his short-sightedness, with flamboyant eyewear. |
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Whether Newark chooses the moderate and measured Jeffries or the fiery and flamboyant Baraka, there is cause for optimism. |
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The most flamboyant of America's weenies, the Sonoran hot dog, has a murky genealogy. |
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When the jazz age roared in, for example, the flamboyant Tom Mix replaced the Victorian William S. Hart as the most popular Western hero of the teens. |
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Nevertheless, he is a flamboyant showman, fond of electric blue suits, who once turned up on a motorbike to wild applause at the Cannes festival, where he is lionised. |
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The inmates, mostly flamboyant personalities who lived by their supervillain identities, were stripped of any identity but their prisoner numbers. |
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There's a fashion TV channel and it shows Pakistani models walking down catwalks and Pakistani designers who are as flamboyant as designers anywhere. |
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British playwright Noel Coward was natty and flamboyant, a born performer. |
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But we can recognize that heavy-handed corruption ought to belong to the era of flamboyant comb-overs and aviator glasses. |
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A new rich class enjoyed a flamboyant lifestyle, which too many people tried to copy by means of credit and stock-market speculation, within an unsound banking system. |
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The Beating Bowel Cancer charity is asking men to wear loud, flamboyant ties and women to wear weird and wonderful scarves or ties in exchange for making donations. |
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In secular society, vanity is most readily identified with the sin of pride in bodily appearance, manifesting in luxurious garb and flamboyant ornamentation. |
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Where Kumar was flamboyant and loud, Natarajan was subtle, soft. |
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If political debate is less sharp in the Neronian books, foreign affairs and Nero's flamboyant behaviour fully extend Tacitus' descriptive powers. |
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Perhaps the most interesting aspect is the contrast between this flamboyant style and some of the more functional, if effective, tactics employed by Europe's top sides. |
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The present compilation combines aspects of both the flamboyant virtuoso and the profound spiritualist that together formed the personality of Franz Liszt. |
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Because when the biggest global demonstration is a broadcaster wearing a flamboyant article of clothing, more must be done. |
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Sunny and Claus were two charming, flamboyant socialites at the very top of American high society. |
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The spiritual home of the French Grand Prix, Reims was a playground for the some of the most successful and flamboyant racing drivers to ever live. |
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The highwayman has been portrayed in films and books as a flamboyant and handsome figure, forever escaping in the nick of time on his trusty steed Black Bess. |
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The grandchildren of the original swing and ballroom dancers are now the ones demonstrating their niftily executed foxtrot or flamboyant lindy-hop routine. |
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He has also commissioned Andrew Roberts, the flamboyant historian, to draw up a list of events children will be obliged to learn about under a Conservative government. |
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These included a flamboyant veteran of the war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan named ibn al-Khattab. |
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She was a seriously flamboyant person, in dress and in sport. |
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In these works of tragic grandeur and flamboyant Romanticism, some sparkling scherzo movements and brilliant finales bring sharp contrasts of mood. |
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While grandiose narcissism is characterized by an extroverted, self-aggrandizing, domineering and flamboyant interpersonal style. |
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What could be more whimsical than Baked Alaska, the flamboyant assemblage of hot meringue and cold ice cream? |
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Unlike those flamboyant bowerbirds, a worm might simply decide that it is better off without us, and retire from public life. |
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The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase. |
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The nave and central tower, more flamboyant in design, were finished early in the sixteenth century after the original plan. |
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Perhaps nowhere else in insectdom is such an extravagantly flamboyant display of systemized pattern on parade. |
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After a flamboyant snare drum roll intro, the catchy plinky-plonky piano melody is joined by lolloping xylophone and flutes. |
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This flowing or flamboyant tracery was introduced in the first quarter of the 14th century and lasted about fifty years. |
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Castle Howard is a flamboyant assembly of restless masses dominated by a cylindrical domed tower. |
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His playing talents were not as flamboyant as some of his colleagues, but his effectiveness cemented him as a first choice at centre. |
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In 1973 one of the Swiss jurors made a great show of presenting his votes with flamboyant gestures. |
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If Wilde was relatively indiscreet, even flamboyant, in the way he acted, Douglas was reckless in public. |
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By the time of Shaw's birth, his mother had become close to George John Lee, a flamboyant figure well known in Dublin's musical circles. |
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The purpose behind this was to avoid the association of the word tabloid with the flamboyant, salacious editorial style of the red top newspaper. |
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In his adolescent years, Charles was noted for his bravery and flamboyant style of leadership. |
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He employed the services of Harry Pollok, one of New York's most flamboyant sports impresarios. |
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Pryor's overfondness for medium-tempo shuffles can make his shows a little predictable, and his stage presence is more sincere than flamboyant. |
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He signed himself 'Yours Sincerely', with a pleasant open signature, not a cocky and flamboyant Wagnerite flourish. |
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He became the public face of the festival with his jaunty fedora and flamboyant zoot suits. |
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Air Asia is run by a flamboyant character called Tony Fernandez. |
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Igniting gardens with flamboyant colors, bougainvilleas spread recklessly over fences and trellises throughout the West. |
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The flamboyant Channel 4 presenter even taught Wills, 17, the bookies' secret sign language, tic-tac, during a 90-minute talk at Eton. |
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Wendy Walgate's work is transgressively flamboyant, excessively indulgent and threateningly abundant. |
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He grew up in the spotlight of his father, the dreadlocked, flamboyant 1983 French Open champion turned popular reggae recording artist. |
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The other varieties would include both the flamboyant dunker and the timid one who tries to dunk on the sly. |
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His gestures are flamboyant, his face shrewd and pouchy but still quite youthful, beneath a mop of gold-and-silver hair. |
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Their moods are hardly soothed by the arrival of flamboyant widow Hortensia. |
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He also operated concessions at the World's Fair the summers of 1939 and '40 as a teenager under the flamboyant nightclub owner, Monte Proser. |
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To get a display a little earlier, try Sahin's Early Flowerer or for flamboyant crimson, Lambada. |
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More likely it was the bop bop bop-bop and the fluffily flamboyant pin-up looks that appealed to both sexes. |
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The Spice Route, Olden Day China and the Forbidden City inspire flamboyant ikats, bright saris and colors such as exotic reds, imperial oranges and clay pinks. |
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The former Butlin's Red Coat became well known on the Kop during the 80s and 90s for his flamboyant outfits, rattle and hand-puppet called Charlie. |
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The former Butlin's Redcoat became well known on the Kop during the 80s and 90s for his flamboyant outfits, rattle and hand-puppet called Charlie. |
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England 59 Italy 13 FOUR-TRY England hero Chris Ashton will say sorry to Martin Johnson with flowers after celebrating two of his scores with flamboyant swallow dives. |
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And completing a fine evening, was Handel's Concerto Grosso in A, full of textures and contrasts, never letting up, and notable for its flamboyant violin part. |
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The radio presenter had been interviewing flamboyant Scots designer Howie Nicolsby on his morning show when he decided to try one of his trendy PVC kilts out for size. |
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It wasn't just about having a smoochy dance to their hit True, we loved them for their long, floppy quiffs, their pouts, and their 80s flamboyant outfits. |
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Deliciously seasoned with flamboyant flavors, captivatingly aromatic, and visually appealing, this unique torte is a first-rate holiday entree that delivers plenty of pizzazz. |
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Bogus biogs are imaginary bionyms which could have provided the celebs concerned with a Bogus more flamboyant title for their life story than history has assigned to them. |
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And nobody sells a fight better than Money Mayweather, the flamboyant and profane braggart and most lucratively wrought villain in the history of sport. |
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Teams have already started devising strategies to out-vacation the rest and create a flamboyant log book of their adventure which will be used to judge the Vacation Challenge. |
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The flamboyant jazzman continued to perform even after collapsing on stage during a concert with his band Digby Fairweather's Half Dozen in January. |
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Also playing plenty of club classics will be the ever flamboyant JON PLEASED WIMMIN and K-KLASS, who will be performing a live PA along with a DJ set. |
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His television films became increasingly flamboyant and outrageous. |
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The flamboyant clothing and visual styles of performers were often camp or androgynous, and have been described as playing with nontraditional gender roles. |
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Just as flamboyant as his wife, Mr. Joseph Martin, Joe for short, died of heart disease brought on by obesity the night of their fourteenth wedding anniversary. |
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In full bloom, royal poinciana, also called Gulmohar or flamboyant tree, offers a splendid view for residents and visitors in the UAE from April to July. |
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