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Usage examples of flamboyant.

She was a dark-skinned Ammonite, her eyelids blackened with kohl, her arms ajingle with crude golden bracelets in the shape of serpents, too many of them, and too noisily jingling, her hair a flamboyant red from the dye of the henna plant.

Wherever the Mafia had grown and prospered since Prohibition, these other savages were there as well, ever clinging to the shadows as the more flamboyant amici filled headlines and mortuaries, lending their advice and financial acumen where it was lacking in their Mafia comrades, Siegel, Buchalter, Cohen, Lansky.

The bloodiest era of the cocaine cowboys seems to be over, and flamboyant enforcers are less in demand.

Sample Menu: The Clear Camel Piss Soup with boiled Earth Worms The Filet of Sun-Ripened Sting Ray basted with Eau de Cologne and garnished with nettles The After-Birth Supreme de Boeuf, cooked in drained crank case oil, served with a piquant sauce of rotten egg yolks and crushed bed bugs The Limburger Cheese sugar cured in diabetic orine doused in Canned Heat Flamboyant.

His rapt gaze took in the flamboyant spread of food and drink, then moved upward past the bank of flowers to the centerpiece, and he wondered what significance there might be in an unsculptured square pillar of ice.

Luca had not yet donned one of his flamboyant coats, but he made up for it with gestures.

Lying awake in bed, night after night while Alix slept, she would remember how her girlfriends whispered when Marin Corbina, the flamboyant and disreputable soothsayer who lived in the St.

She had stood for the last fitting of the flamboyant gown only a week ago and it had fit perfectly with a decolletage that was positively scandalous.

Even the less flamboyant Fools courted danger: The half-and-half extremists seemed almost to glory in it.

Under Byrnes s flamboyant guidance the detectives in the bureau became known as the Immortals and they dramatically reduced the level of crime in a city as freewheeling back then as the Wild West.

Instantly she is replaced on the jumbo tube by Marilyn Manson, a flamboyant metalhead whose plangent ode to masochism puts an inexplicable bounce in my step.

As the invasion moves north, Lee is left blind by his cavalry, under the flamboyant command of Jeb Stuart.

Butte Montmartre, a flamboyant circus parade went noisily northeastward from the Bois de Boulogne toward the same destination.

Among the pillars at the top of the steps lingered a dozen or so young men in the gold and purple livery of the Household Sabreurs, complete with flamboyant purple cloaks and gold-hilted swords.

No doubt, given the luck she was experiencing thus far today, Tom Shaughnessy was a flamboyant criminal of some sort.