There are more and more lookers on the Lisbon restaurant scene, like 1300 Taberna, sprawling and stunning, with flamboyant lighting fixtures, fanciful plates and cutlery and — most important — appealing food that puts Portuguese staples through mildly inventive paces.
Built during the heyday of Googie architecture, its Polynesian Tiki styling extended from the massive roadside neon sign to the building's "flamboyant neon lights and ostentatious rooflines meant to attract motorists like moths".
In his live sets, for instance, flamboyant stage and light shows bridge the gaps between music, dance, theatre and film – clearly influenced by Nollywood thrillers.
In the watery light the flamboyant leaves and flowers gleamed like crushed velvet.
Profiles of Levine in this magazine and elsewhere bring to light a flamboyant vulgarity that here, intensely aware of Albert Maysles's probing camera, he keeps under wraps, but his lascivious grin as he describes Loren's appearance suggests exactly where art and commerce intersect.
The wonderfully flamboyant use of film and light play rescues the ballroom dances from being only that.
The road to being one of the most successful artists of all time has been colourful, and that's excluding the enormous light up glasses, flamboyant suits and hair transplant.
It portrays a group of revelers in flamboyant, fashionable clothes and raking, Caravaggioesque light.
Give or take her interest in somewhat flamboyant shoes, her personal style is light years from the faux-matey "look at my iPod" disposition that many Tory politicians – not least the prime minister – took from Tony Blair.
As he worked on his movies (financing them himself — he paid for "Maidstone" by selling his shares in the Village Voice, of which he was a founder), he wrote about them, too, and it's worth considering the movies in the light of his dense, flamboyant, and brilliant essays.
