The service is breezy and attentive and sweet, and before you even order you are presented with a flamboyant whoosh of paper-thin crisp bread resembling a Frank Gehry band shell.
Some of the papers have had flamboyant editors or publishers, even including one Phineas T. Barnum.
"These days, there are government papers and government papers," said Hu Shuli, the flamboyant American-trained editor of Caijing, far and away China's most daring business magazine.
William Randolph Hearst's New York papers, the leading examples, were flamboyant, populist, opinionated, and thoroughly disreputable.
MANILA — Imelda Marcos, the flamboyant widow of the dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos, filed last-minute papers on Tuesday declaring her candidacy for a seat in the Philippine Congress next year.
It was wrapped in orange and white striped paper with my name and address in really flamboyant black magic-marker handwriting.
Turning our eyes from the presidential campaign to conservative Washington generally, we can see the same overripeness, the same flamboyant contradictions that have long since become too great to paper over.
On April 21 and 22, Grace Gordon, the curator of Bernard's papers, will tell of the brouhaha surrounding this flamboyant impresario, who arrived in Nyack in 1918 with his wife, Blanche DeVries, and a shady past involving a sex-based yoga practice frequently referred to as a "love cult".
Its flamboyant facade divides opinion (it looks like an enormous present wrapped in gold Christmas paper) but the view over the city from the rooftop is fabulous.
What I discovered in reading her papers is that she was deeply, deeply humiliated by her most flamboyant episodes.
