Sentences with phrase «by flamboyant»

Tempted by this flamboyant affair?

The statuesque aluminium bath is surrounded by flamboyant touches — the lion's head tap (yes, that is a tap!)

Tingley is very active in fighting with M&W nowadays, pay attention to the latter paper which is coauthored by a flamboyant team of professional statisticians!

With photography and film, Jimmy DeSana, David Benjamin Sherry, Jack Smith, and John Waters fly in the face of stodgy modernist quests for beauty unadulterated by flamboyant colors or subjects that offend delicate sensibilities.

In the first year, who could forget turning a corner and coming face to face with Helly Nahmad's sensational arrangement of large - scale Alexander Calder mobiles and Miró's «The Sorrowful March Guided by the Flamboyant Bird of the Desert» (which had an asking price of $ 20m), their common motifs languidly waving to each other across the booth, to a muted John Cage soundtrack?

The way art endures over time, and reflects on its passage, is also the theme of the work on view in the inner recesses of the Firestone Project space, where the large - format photographs made by the flamboyant, Hong - Kong born Tseng Kwong Chi are found.

While in The Eye... Vreeland's recorded conversation with the editor of her memoir DV, George Plimpton, was affectionate and of course dominated by her flamboyant recollection, Bograd Weld's questions were journalistic and probing, making the dialogue a bit wooden.

The strategy of the post-modern Memphis studio was to challenge and subvert Modernist conventions of good taste, with a visual language dominated by flamboyant pattern, bold colour, graphic sculptural form and, frequently, humour.

After prepping from a futuristic Tom Ford named Cinna (Lenny Kravitz), the tributes appear in front of a futuristic Ryan Seacrest played by the flamboyant Stanley Tucci.

The two were inspired partially by flamboyant designer Charles James, whose gowns (or «creations») were described by Virginia Woolf as «diabolical, and geometrically perfect.»

Compared to PotC, CutThroat Island's visuals have a much grander scale; its story's plot has actual merit; and it's not all kept afloat by a flamboyant Johnny Depp in pirate garb.

It's unclear if Mr. Brice means for them to be quite this ordinary, but their banality and unease about fitting in works because it makes them nice foils for Kurt, who, by flamboyant contrast, contains scripted multitudes.

Gethsemane tells the story of corruption and scandal at the very top of a Labour government: fundraising by a flamboyant music mogul in return for unspecified rewards, a dope - smoking, gangbanging teenager and a HomeSecretary with a dodgy businessman for a husband.

But this performance at Anfield by the flamboyant Spaniard couldn't have been more different.

And later: «The dismaying suspicion is that Botham's problems have less to do with the waning of a titanic talent than the pressure he has created for himself by a flamboyant lifestyle and a restless urge to hit life for six.»

The whole thing rests upon one author — Michael Prescott's — highly selective excerpting and chopping up of a private [i.e., thinking out loud without clarifications] journal written when Rand was barely out of her teens, fresh from the blood bath of 1920s Soviet Russia — and still made it very clear that her read on the personalities of the observers showed that they were not appalled by Hickman's crime — she said there had been far worse, without the same spectacle of glee — but by his flamboyant and mocking defiance of society.

Not exact matches

Characterized by sharp beaks and flamboyant horns and frills, these herbivores almost all lived in what is now Western North America right at the end of the Cretaceous period, 100 to 66 million years ago.

Gundlach is known for having a flamboyant sense of style: His Los Angeles skyscraper office is covered by Mondrian paintings and other expensive artworks.

Away from the mob, a man of «Honour» is flogged at a whipping post by «Vilany,» assisted by an ape in devilishly flamboyant garb, while the figure of «Honesty,» stripped naked, is bludgeoned by «Self Interest» atop a wheel of fortune as a minister intones a prayer over him.

Even Sullivan's chapter on «The Liberationists» does not include those we have come to associate with that term (the strident gay - rights activists or flamboyant gay liberationists) but focuses instead on a ragtag group of theoreticians influenced by French philosophy.

The Democratization of American Christianity by nathan hatch yale university press, 312 pages, $ 25 In 1802 a flamboyant Baptist preacher named John Leland presented a twelve - hundred pound «mammoth cheese» to Thomas Jefferson at a White House ceremony.

On the other hand, I was really annoyed by Hart's predictably flamboyant judgment that «the claim that capitalist culture and Christianity are compatible — indeed, that they are not ultimately inimical to one another — seems to me not only self - evidently false, but quaintly (and perhaps perilously) deluded.»

Still, she remained a believer in the bright future painted by Wellard's flamboyant Italian chief executive, Mauro Balzarini, who received $ 115 million in the public offering by selling a portion of the company founded by his father.

I think the flamboyant displays from our Arsenal will have to be substituted by some very disciplined performances during the next month.

Inger interviewed several agents before settling on Hudson, the flamboyant lawyer who, with sprint coach and former U.S. Olympian John Smith, formed HSI, a management company that includes many athletes trained by Smith, among them 100 - meter world - record holder Maurice Greene and 1996 Olympic double bronze medalist Ato Boldon of Trinidad.

A return of 26 goals in 38 league appearances is superb by anyone's standards, let alone someone playing in what was widely - acknowledged to be the least flamboyant Sir Alex Ferguson team in a long time.

MILAN: After expertly dealing with flamboyant Napoli last Friday and securing a spot in the Champions League last 16, Juventus can make it a perfect week by denting Serie A leaders Inter Milan's title credentials on Saturday.

Some of my friends in the media vigorously attack Nigerian journalists and statesmen who openly commend the Ghanaian administration for the strides made so far.Chief Dele Momodu recently said this about of our President «People don't know why I love Ghana so much and the current leader in particular.He is modest, not flamboyant as we see of other leaders», on BBC few days ago Nigerians interviewed used the positive signs in Ghana as appropriate yardstick to attack their government, a documentary going round in the international media exposes the lackadaisical performance of the Nigerian government using the positive performance recorded under John Mahama.The latest BBC reports on the Nigerian economy captures that the cost of living in Nigeria continue to soar and in June, accelerated to 16.5 % the highest rate in almost 11 years.Gari which is supposed to be the cheapest commodity in the country can not be afforded by the poor.

K. O. Mbadiwe, the flamboyant politician from present Imo State had been left out in the initial appointments by President Shehu Shagari, in spite of his «timber and caterpillar» contributions to the success of the National Party of Nigeria at the polls.

Roger Stone, a flamboyant former adviser to President Trump, communicated directly with WikiLeaks despite insisting otherwise, according to messages obtained by The Atlantic's Natasha Bertrand.

One of the most flamboyant and controversial people in Irish politics, he died surrounded by his family at his north Dublin home in Kinsealy.

Flamboyant lawyer Richard Luthmann, who once famously sought to resolve a civil lawsuit through «trial by combat,» was arrested by the FBI on a slew of charges, including kidnapping, kidnapping conspiracy, money laundering, brandishing a firearm to commit a crime, aggravated identity theft and extortion conspiracy.

A flamboyant Lebanese - born physicist known as Dr. K, Dr. Kaloyeros was also at the center of a separate complaint brought by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman.

By Salau Opeyemi In celebrating the significant landmark of Lagos state, the state government under the leadership of Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode has organized befitting and flamboyant events to mark the half a century year of creation of the south - western state.

In fact, the flamboyant Tory politician was recounting, with some glee, a jibe made by the former chief whip Michael Jopling.

The flamboyant corrections leader had a lock on his union members, but he is less well - liked by his counterparts in other unions.

The teen flashed a wide smile as he posed for photos in the ornate chair, known by pols as the «Captain America» chair for its flamboyant upholstering, which resembles the superhero's shield.

His once - flamboyant pop and sparkle have been replaced by hemming and hawing.

Genetic conflicts over physical traits that help one sex but harm the other sometimes appear to be settled by a trait evolving to develop only in the sex it benefits, as with the flamboyant tails of male peacocks, for instance.

An international team of scientists studying the dinosaur, called Caihong juji, made the discovery by carefully analyzing tiny melanosomes, the part of the cells that contain pigment, in the fossil, which turned up dramatic evidence of the dinosaur's flamboyant plumage.

(We think of it as a cosmic, flamboyant icon surrounded by an elite troupe of backup dancers.)

Romance - a-holic by nature, Leo loves being in love — and your proud, flamboyant sign wants the whole world to know when you are.

Headed by the inimitable, sharp talking and fabulously flamboyant Bryan Grey - Yambao, BryanBoy.com was first started in October 2004 as a travel diary for an overseas trip to Russia for close friends and family to keep an eye on his whereabouts and travel experiences.

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A fairly interminable teen comedy, American Pie follows four high school buddies (Jason Biggs» Jim, Chris Klein's Oz, Thomas Ian Nicholas» Kevin, and Eddie Kaye Thomas» Finch) as they vow to lose their respective virginities by prom night - with the film detailing the foursome's expectedly flamboyant and over-the-top efforts at accomplishing this feat.

Reeves does a nice job of distancing himself from The Matrix trilogy by playing Constantine as an exceedingly grizzled figure (smart choice, given that the man can literally see demons), while the supporting cast is peppered with a host of familiar faces (Peter Stormare even pops up as Satan, delivering a flamboyant performance that's easily the highlight of the film).

Bart followed that up by deftly playing the flamboyant Carmen Ghia, personal assistant to transvestite director Roger de Bries, in the 2005 Susan Stroman - directed musical comedy remake of Mel Brooks» The Producers, and then played one of two seriously disturbed American businessmen who buy into a thrill - kill franchise in Eli Roth's splatter-fest Hostel Part II (2007).

Django Unchained, Tarantino's deliriously kicky and shameless (and also overly long and scattershot) racial - exploitation epic, is set in the slave days, and among other things, it's a low - down orgy of flamboyant cruelty and violence: whippings, a scene in which a man gets torn apart by dogs, plus the most promiscuous use of the N - word ever heard in a mainstream movie.

Sakaar is ruled over by the Grandmaster, played by Jeff Goldblum with a perfect mixture of flamboyant theatricality and aw - shucks narcissism.