Yannick Bolasie, all elastic limbs and blistering pace, illuminated this occasion, with his extravagant skill striking terror into his markers.
Here was a player capable of extravagant skill, a creative force who, when on form, could illuminate a team and add fizz to Steve Bruce's attacking options.
The Frenchman once delighted Luton Town, his extravagant skills helping to get them out of the old Third Division.
As coach of an outrageously talented Argentine team, one thrown together in the image of his own extravagant skills, Maradona is having a good World Cup.
They gathered in the sunshine outside the dressing rooms to salute each of the players as they returned to the coach, reserving the loudest cheers for Sam Tomkins, whose extravagant skills lit up this game as they have so many of the 21 victories from 26 games with which Wigan have secured the League Leaders Shieldd.
It feels preposterous to suggest a player who has scored 27 goals in 30 league games might still be catching the Championship unawares, but so much of the focus in a refreshingly attack-minded team is hogged by the extravagant skills of Wilfried Zaha and Yannick Bolasie, and of late the young Welshman Jonathan Williams, that the focal point has often gone ignored.
Dynamic flanker who showed extravagant footballing skills in recent Churchill Cup, earning a contract with Welsh side Ospreys.
Later, the introductory part of the qaṣīdah often was taken up by a description of nature or given over to some words of wisdom, or the poet took the opportunity to demonstrate his skill in handling extravagant language and to show off his learning.
They allow this adored US mezzo to display her dizzying technical virtuosity, her acting skills and her extravagant sense of drama.
One favorite but rather recondite moment (given the fact that the documentary footage is something of a rare item) is the extravagant 1969 parade when army soldiers paraded their killing skills for the leader, Mao Zedong.
Ask her about her EU nurses and the way she brims with extravagant praise betrays her anxiety following the referendum: "They make a huge contribution with very strong skills that lift the standard of our own.
