(1) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
(2) A vicious feud playing out within Uzbekistan's ruling family took a new twist on Monday , when prosecutors announced that the clan's most flamboyant member faces charges of involvement in mafia-style corruption.
(3) The other is a flamboyant showman who delights in peroxide mohicans and driving a variety of fast cars – most notably, perhaps, an army camouflage Bentley Continental GT.
(4) Everyone has been part of it, regardless of whether you’re a dirty metalhead or a flamboyant pop fan.” • This article was amended on 1 June 2017.
(5) Borno has always been known for having the most flamboyant and colourful weddings,” she said.
(6) It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write.
(7) It is in a majestic salon, the walls of which are decorated with flamboyant 18th-century Flemish tapestries with a Tiepolo fresco adorning the ceiling, while the terrace overlooks a landscaped garden.
(8) Most striking was the .50 correlation for females between flamboyant personality disorder scores and visits to the family doctor for mental health reasons.
(9) Wilde, however, with his high earnings and his flamboyance, made of precariousness something aristocratic; he was, if you’ll forgive the coinage, a precaristocrat.
(10) When builders moved in a few weeks ago, it was marked in flamboyant Polish style with a commissioned "dance" for the diggers by director Robert Florczak, whose audacious multimedia Macbeth debuted at last year's Shakespeare festival.
(11) When I was coming out I was watching things like Will and Grace , I thought that was the model I had to aspire to – being rich or flamboyant.
(12) So whether we look at this as criminal irresponsibility or a simple bad run from a flamboyant high roller, we should be able to agree that he didn't provide much of a service.
(13) La Tuta captured: Mexico's flamboyant primary teacher turned drug kingpin Read more In recent days the Mexican government has celebrated the capture of two top cartel suspects: on Wednesday Omar Treviño Morales, the leader of the notoriously brutal Zetas drug cartel, was caught in the northern city of Monterrey .
(14) Arnaud Montebourg, the former economy minister and flamboyant ex-lawyer who had also run on a leftwing ticket, was eliminated in the first round, with around 18%.
(15) Of course there was, and still is, wild hedonism among some of the more flamboyant and brash members of the trading community, but focusing on the outliers is no way to properly judge the majority of the industry.
(16) A jeepney in Manila: US military 4x4s left over from world war II have been converted, often flamboyantly, into the most popular form of transport in the city.
(17) Manchester United ,a club besotted with its flamboyant heritage, could not produce an evening's worth of flawless security.They fell short by seconds and so tumbled out of the Champions League on a 3 -2 aggregate.Sir Alex Ferguson's team had been ahead on the away-goal rule as this match entered its last minute.
(18) In "Sylvia's flamboyant imagination, the EST [electric shock treatment] gear resembled some kind of medieval torture equipment," says Gordon Lameyer.
(19) Kabuki as we see it today - in, for example, Shunkan or The Scene on Devil's Island, one of the greatest in the repertoire - is action-packed, scenically thrilling and histrionically flamboyant.
(20) Extending his charm offensive to Washington DC, the flamboyant finance minister held talks with senior administration officials after meeting IMF managing director Christine Lagarde and attempting to allay fears of an imminent Greek default.
Ostentation
Definition:
(n.) The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.
(n.) A show or spectacle.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are supposed to slaver enviously at this ostentation; if we don’t, we condemn ourselves as losers.
(2) The company that helped the couple design it said: “They wanted not ostentation but ‘a spirit of home’.” While the yacht was designed primarily for relaxed cruising, Staley has sailed her across the Atlantic to complete one of his “bucket list” life goals.
(3) Awopbopaloobop transferred the underworld grit, diamond-studded teeth and overflowing dresses in Cohn’s imagination to the glamour, the ostentation, the ruthlessness and grubbiness of the pop business.
(4) Yet it would be wrong to overlook the damage done to the Japanese psyche in the immediate aftermath of the bursting of the bubble in the early 1990s, a decade of excess and ostentation sustained by a shared illusion that the economy would remain for ever on an upward trajectory.
(5) Many of those present had travelled for days by bus or plane to see a pope that they admire for his spirituality, lack of ostentation and strong emphasis on the poor.
(6) According to Billboard , Daleste was involved in São Paulo's ostentation funk scene, where rappers trade gangster bars over heavily percussive beats.
(7) His other great passion is good taste – a quality he credits for distinguishing his family from the tacky ostentation of most Russian oligarchs, who rather embarrass Lebedev.