Loud little boy turned modest

Usage examples of flashy.

A chest which needed no swelling to begin with, as muscular as it so obviously was under the flashy but sparse Axumite regalia.

The younger dog, however, a flashy tri-colored pointer, was still an apprentice at her trade and dodged about with exuberant energy, barking with excitement over the kill and altogether irritating her more experienced bracemate, who took its duties as seriously as any upper servant.

With their plumed hats and embroidered jackets and flashy pants, the cardplayers were a sharp contrast to the six guards in plain green and gold.

The concerti, the often flashy and tinselly pianoforte compositions of Liszt and Rubinstein were the immediate and surface result of that deeper sense of the instrument which arrived during the nineteenth century, and intoxicated folk with the piano timbres, and made them eager to hear its many voices in no matter how crude a form.

His fingers wrung the right sounds out of the guitar: hard, flashy, a little bit tawdry, like a display of junk jewelry, probably stolen, sold out of a paper bag on a street corner.

In tacit agreement, Foster and Webster maneuvered the flashy young officer between them and deliberately made their way through the wettest and foulest quagmires of the camp streets.

Turn left just beyond the film-tower, park in a muddy lot full of new Cadillacs and flashy sports cars, and walk up a grassy bank to a one-story concrete-block building that looks like a dog-kennel or a Pepsi-Cola warehouse in St.

I put on my suit and flashy tie, tucked my new leather Bible under my arm and started across town to the Ft. Greene project.

Sub-chief Captain Vawn took but one look at the flashy, overdecorated saddle and horse-gear that Hahkmukos had left behind and offered me the price of a decent horse for it, and I took him up on it.

Ty gave her a leg up onto the back of the flashy blood bay, made sure the stirrups were properly adjusted to her leg length, then mounted his own horse.

They were often neglected in favor of massive sea beasts or flashy predators, but in terms of biomass, gram by gram, insects could overwhelm.

He wore a navy three-piece suit, bankerly with its chalk stripes and flashy with its paisley tie.

I’d always liked Monk, with his flashy derbies and his rooms full of cats and birds (or, as he said it, “kits ’n’ boids”).

And while I was at it, I wanted to squelch all her flashy little brainchildren-those bestsellers which had multiplied with jack-rabbit alacrity into paperback deals .

Besides, using a channel was a lot easier than clawing his way alone to the most remote and powerful vortex sites - the ones that weren't listed in the flashy four-color pamphlets that sold for ten bucks apiece and weren't worth the paper they were printed on.