Sentences with phrase «flamboyant way»

Black, 63, a Canadian - born member of the British House of Lords renowned for his flamboyant way with words, had faced up to slightly more than 8 years in prison under sentencing guidelines determined earlier Monday by U.S. District Judge Amy J. St. Eve.

The new Bumbleride Indie stroller system offers a new and flamboyant way to travel with your babby more efficiently than what its predecessors offered.

If anyone is going to go there and win, believe it or not, you would go for Arsenal as they play a flamboyant way, they open the game up.

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They drive their cars all the way from his native North Carolina to cheer his flamboyant triumphs and groan over his equally spectacular disasters.

The Manchester United ace is the polar opposite to the flamboyant Frenchman - and that's the way he likes it.

The Conservatives have come a long way since the days when flamboyant party grandee Alan Clark famously belittled Michael Heseltine as a man who «bought all his own furniture».

«The Victorian Prime Minister was a bed - hopping chancer who deployed his flamboyant wit to charm his way out of trouble and exert a hypnotic hold over the Tories.

As a teenager, I would get impatient with her insistence on dressing in a somewhat flamboyant, almost theatrical way for each walk, and then for every other time of the day.

From its first glimpse of Oskar as he dresses for a typically flamboyant evening socializing with German officers — and even from the way his hand appears, nonchalantly holding a cigarette and a bribe — the film studies him with rapt attention.

His own tributes to the outlaw, outsider film tradition — flamboyant in their scholarly care and in their bold originality — have suggested new ways of taking movies seriously.

It is Oliver's attitude of compassionate acceptance and understanding of his newly flamboyant dad, Mel, that makes this film groundbreaking in its» quiet, whimsical way.

Made in the wake of a spy movie boom, as the flamboyant James Bond fantasies gave way to disillusioned John Le Carre dramas and grim Cold War adventures like Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain and Topaz, The Kremlin Letter is adapted from a from a twisty best - seller by Noel Behn that (in Huston's words) «had all the makings of a success... all those qualities that were just coming into fashion in 1970: violence, lurid sex, drugs.»

Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman and Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket Speaking of makeup... We already know how fantastic Stanley Tucci and Elizabeth Banks are as Caesar Flickerman, talk show host, and Effie Trinket, ditzy publicist / babysitter from the first «Hunger Games,» but they are doing career - best work here, dialing their flamboyant and over-the-top characters way, way up without losing the utmost control.

Given Shankar - Ehsaan - Loy's infectiously old school funk - inflected song score (an inspired way to carry over the»70s homage vibe now that Don has no longer dons flamboyant pimpdaddy fashions this time out), it is a bit disappointing that song and dance is at a relative minimum here.

These are professionals who know how to be flamboyant; they pull out all the visual stops to comically illustrate the script, but not in a way that makes you wince as you do when you're over-bombarded with cute and amusing stimuli — I'm thinking of the Jean - Pierre Jeunet school, or last year's German literary adaptation Wetlands.

Sirk worked with subtext and a flamboyant visual style of color, light and shadow to articulate forbidden feelings in ways dialogue could not.

At the lowest point of their relationship, when Violet and Tom go their separate ways and find solace in the arms of cartoonish new partners — a flamboyant Welsh psych professor (a gregarious Rhys Ifans) and a Zumba - obsessed California bimbo (Dakota Johnson, daughter of Don and Melanie Griffiths), respectively — the deck is so clearly stacked against these unions that pit boss Apatow should have demanded a rewrite.

Nighy and West are probably the biggest names here, and they're both excellent in parts a long way from their usual type: the former is lovely and delicate as the shy, mild miner finding a new simmering rage at the government's treatment of his colleagues, while West gets to have flamboyant fun as the camp actor, particularly in an impressive dance sequence.

A brief collection of retrospective interviews with Polanski, production exec Robert Evans, and production designer Richard Sylbert doesn't offer too much in the way of juicy inside details, but much unintended amusement comes from Evans» soft - focus segments, which the famously flamboyant producer gives in profile, presumably to showcase his «good» side.

The SVXs were uncommon, but they weren't flamboyant in an exotic - car way, so the stir Subaru hoped to cause never really came.

One of the younger developers ended up leaving the program in a flamboyant fashion and did some dastardly things along the way.

Flight means making her way through the memories that engulf her, with a good and silent man, perhaps the only man she has ever loved, traveling by her side, caught up in his own tormented memories of Jean's beautiful, flamboyant sister.

Although he has come a long way since being the son of underground ping tan artists, he hasn't lost the flamboyant love for showmanship he inherited from them.

Dwarf in hand, the two of you fight your way through the prison and cross paths with the silver tongued, flamboyant mage, Zurbaran.

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.