| This can expose his flaws, which range from minor sententiousness to major sentimentality, but his gaudiest excesses are kept in check this time out. |
| The three celebrity outsiders continued to wrap the thinnest evidence of their ability to do the job in the gaudiest self-assurance. |
| Bluemel was growing ornamental grasses: gigantic, multicolor creatures that could go toe to toe in the perennial border with the gaudiest rose or peony. |
| Dressed in the gaudiest of outfits and wearing a wig that appears to be made out of 13 poodles, Dennis is adorably loony and off her rocker. |
| So here we are again, in the midst of the gaudiest, most inefficient rite of democracy on earth, fought under rules laid down almost 230 years ago but in which, in practice, anything goes. |
| The only thing that counts is wearing the gaudiest, most ridiculous outfits and adopting the most pompous titles: Archmagus Ipssissimus, Sâr, Kadosh the Knight and the Unknown Superior. |
