Sentence examples for a sort of flashy from inspiring English sources
English has replaced Russian as the second language of the land, and a sort of flashy consumerism permeates the style and conversation of the fancy folks strolling up and down Rustaveli Avenue, gawking at all the new perfume and cell phone shops and even a couple of brand new Loake of London and Bata shoe outlets.
Environmentalists tout a sort-of pagan eschatology.
The most unusual is unquestionably "Catwoman," the sort of flashy, effects-heavy vehicle that rarely stars a woman, much less an African-American one.
Given the scale of the whole operation (seven handmade junk ships sailing down the Hudson from Troy, NY to the Deitch Gallery in Queens) and the involvement of an OBIE-winning director I was really looking forward to some sort of flashy, Vegasesque spectacle with guns and swordfights and guys swinging from ship to ship over the gaping mouths of robotic (or at least puppet) sharks.
It is, in short, the sort of flashy, pulpy, sci-fi epic that could be called a "space opera" – and it's not alone.
And others might wonder how clever a move it was for Morrisons to buy Safeway for £3bn in 2004, the sort of flashy big acquisition the no-nonsense Yorkshire-based firm had up until then rejected under Sir Ken's leadership.
It is a lesson that has been largely lost on game designers, who tend to use the latest graphics technology as a sort of bamboozlement, a misdirection that makes fast-paced action and flashy special effects the whole point.
He's a sort of wayward son of the Druid movement – the armed proletarian wing – with a taste in wild women and flashy silver jewellery and a kind of persistent stubbornness that is almost Churchillian in its scope.
