(1) As Harvey said with such flair, "nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten path".
(2) The clue is in the title: it takes a lot of work and rehearsal for a comedian to appear spontaneous, and this is a daft, enjoyable and impressively polished show from a comic with a natural flair for the absurd.
(3) It took Harry Guy Bartholomew, first editorial director and then chairman after Rothermere unloaded his shares, to run the business on despotic lines and, with a mixture of flair and vindictive thuggery, create one of the great popular newspapers.
(4) The UN has criticised these policies , which display none of the ingenuity or flair of the street papers or Housing First advocates, whose methods, while not perfect, have at least been shown to reduce urban homelessness.
(5) From that starting point, he immediately applied – with his colleagues – his flair, vision and enormous energy to create a €1.5bn worldwide communications group.
(6) Oscar Tabárez's side may not play with the same flair and commitment to attack, but Luis Suárez demonstrated here why he is so revered and the draw has been as inviting for La Celeste as they could possibly have dared hope.
(7) They attacked with great flair during the first half, sensing their opponents were there for the taking, and when they were put under sustained pressure we saw the old doggedness after the break, defending with great determination while still looking dangerous on the counterattack.
(8) For a politician whose stock-in-trade had always been a flair for exhibitionism and showmanship, it was a particularly cruel form of punishment.
(9) Wen has scored at least one big victory in his time as premier: he is widely considered instrumental in sacking the Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai – a charismatic leader with a flair for Mao-era grandiosity – triggering the party's most dramatic political upheaval in decades.
(10) With comic timing and a flair for the unusual, Rosling's style has undoubtedly helped make data cool.
(11) His light touch with pastry and flair for eclairs – always baked with a signature pencil perched behind his ear – have won over the hearts and tastebuds of the Great British Bake Off judges.
(12) Their showing was a triumph for the coach, Joachim Löw, who has pieced together many players of modest experience and swiftly achieved success without sacrificing flair.
(13) He had no hacking ability, but instead put his flair for writing and rhetoric to use.
(14) It is too soon to deliver a verdict on the value for money achieved in the spree but flair is insufficient.
(15) The critics have raved about Amour : to some it is a "beautifully calculated demise" or "old age that refuses to be swept under the carpet and mindlessly 'othered' "; to others it shows "Haneke's flair for the emotionally brutal" and is an "overlong unblinking meditation on life's last act".
(16) And as her notorious campaign ad proved, she already has the Trumpian flair.
(17) Stoke did not just deal with them quite easily, they produced all the flair, vision and style.
(18) In 42 lesions, conspicuity was better with FLAIR sequences, equal in five and worse in one cystic lesion.
(19) Teams such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile and Algeria blew fresh air through the stale halls of international football's establishment with their teamwork and counter attacking flair.
(20) McGurk would not reveal how he would vote on Sunday, but said: "David is liked because he's got a lot of charisma, he's down to earth, he gives the place a sort of international flair – and apparently because we Scots have this reputation for being careful with our money, which I hadn't realised we had until I came to Germany."
Panache
Definition:
(n.) A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The London Olympics delivered its undeniable panache by throwing a large amount of money at a small number of people who were set a simple goal.
(2) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
(3) Hodgson’s team attracted a certain amount of sympathy and understanding after the Italy defeat but it was beyond them to play with the same attacking panache and, if there is to be a feat of escapology, it will need an almost implausible combination of results and handouts in the final games of Group D. More realistically, they have blown it in their first week.
(4) A week that began with faith in David Moyes disappearing at an alarming rate has ended with United looking more like their old selves, the inclusion of Juan Mata and Shinji Kagawa allowing them to play with a panache that has rarely been evident this season.
(5) It’s prepared and served tableside with a huge dose of panache (and potency).
(6) There was panache to the way the visitors responded to Mangala’s loss when their lead had suddenly been rendered fragile, the manner in which the substitutes, James Milner and Frank Lampard, combined for the latter to dispatch his side’s second 10 minutes from time – a precise finish from the edge of the area – a reminder of underlying pedigree.
(7) Tulisa led, and did so with panache and some beautiful gravel.
(8) If panache is too high a bar he really does need some pushback to make this show at all interesting.
(9) To the moral seriousness established by Orwell and others, they added a crisp wit and a panache welcomed by a country emerging from some stark and difficult years.
(10) All of this is delivered with remarkable panache given his relatively recent introduction to the world of stand-up.
(11) The cabinet papers also disclose that the cabinet secretary, Sir Robert Armstrong, personally warned Thatcher that Heseltine, despite his undoubted "zest and panache'', was not the man to save Britain's inner cities arguing he was "distrusted and disliked in the local authority world".
(12) He presided over Brain of Britain with sympathy for the contestants, wit and panache."
(13) Iain broke out of that dichotomy with all the panache of the spaceship exploding from inside another spaceship on the cover of Consider Phlebas, the first of his SF novels to be published, by writing of an expansive, optimistic possible future rooted in the same materialist and evolutionary view of life that had in the past been seen only as a dark background to cosmically futile strivings.
(14) Yet it was only a passing irritation and Alli can be forgiven when he plays this stylishly, with so much energy and panache.
(15) Of course the first lady embraced the offer and, with unprecedented speed and panache, she was endorsed by all Zanu-PF provinces as the next head of the Women’s League to be elected, without contest, at the current congress.
(16) There are campaign photographs of him, emerging from a motorcade in inscrutable shades, that ooze JFK panache.
(17) We now know that this was the key moment, the crucial day, when France forgot all about Cyrano and buried panache.
(18) Alice has all the makings of a long-term classic: a bold, funny and mercifully whimsy-free take on Lewis Carroll, accompanied by the fizzing musical panache of Joby Talbot’s score.
(19) Rentokil did cleaning; G4S did security; Capita did IT; Serco did anything and everything – and its panache in the bidding process meant that it often beat out competition from specialist firms.
(20) England had scored more points against France than ever before, taking their try tally for the tournament to 18 and looking like a team capable of making an impact in the World Cup – combining power up front with pace and panache.