Sentences with phrase «flamboyant figure»

So it is easy to forget a less flamboyant figure such as Arthur Dove (1880 - 1946) who evolved his own modernist manner by small sidesteps from the down - home realism of contemporaries such as Edward Hopper and John Sloan.

She gave her utmost to act an exquisite, flamboyant figure of the 1930s - 40s.

Turner is shown as a flamboyant figure towards the end of his life, somewhere between Damien Hirst and Boris Johnson: crying and choking, but at the peak of his powers.

Snowden himself was something of a geek and technocrat, not the kind of flamboyant figure who populated many of Stone's earlier movies.

Not exact matches

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.

Exceptions to theserules are politicians who have become public figures or national treasures or areprepared to write abouttheir flamboyant private life.

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It was an emblematic moment for Mr. Barron, who for the past 12 years has been among the most flamboyant and inflammatory figures on the New York City political scene — and who, after winning the Democratic primary in September to replace his wife Inez Barron in the Assembly, is about to make his debut on a far stuffier stage.

Now we're starting to figure out why these flamboyant molluscs put on their light show

Grandiose narcissism is the flamboyant, boastful form that probably characterizes both malignant leaders such as Benito Mussolini and Saddam Hussein and highly venerated figures such as General George S. Patton.

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).

The same year he completely bucked his macho, action - figure persona with his portrayal of a flamboyant drag queen in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything!

A flamboyant character and a key figure in the Ferus Gallery circle in Los Angeles, Billy Al Bengston is associated with West Coast Pop and best known for spray painting dented sheets of square aluminum with lacquer.

«Northern Lights» features the dynamic figure in the flamboyant green leather coat in three different poses.

But we've developed these capacities far faster than we've figured out how to respond to them — both in filtering information that, while scary or sexy, distracts from more meaningful, but subtle, trends, and developing the discipline to recognize human traits that cause us to ignore important, but less flamboyant, clues pointing to a promising path of least regret.