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flashily
adverb
In a flashy manner
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He then made a strenuous effort for critical acclaim with his role as the serial killer Albert DeSalvo in The Boston Strangler (1968), flashily directed with use of a split screen.
Unlike other European leaders, she is neither charismatic, nor flashily intellectual, nor domineering.
I have but one request: would you please admonish Barack Obama for the same things.John Toohey San AntonioSIR – Could you enlighten me as to where I might find "flashily intellectual" European leaders?Heinz Kestermann Sydney* Letter appears online only.
A lawyer of our acquaintance with an erect carriage, handle-bar mustaches and a piercing gaze, was strolling along in the West Forties, when a drunk, flashily dressed and an unlikely object of charity, accosted him.
The three form an off-kilter romantic triangle, but mostly they are a mutually supportive trio of strivers, musketeering their way toward a kind of art celebrity that the eighties made more flashily available than usual.
Hadn't those brittle young novels — "Crome Yellow," "Antic Hay," "Those Barren Leaves," "Point Counter Point" — been flashily yearning for a wider world?
Fleeting detours to early gigs and interview fragments tear us from the ethereal grip of Jon Thor Birgisson's soaring tenor and reveal little except that the band wasn't always so flashily dressed or spatially blessed.
Carmen keeps extending one flashily straightened leg like a spear, and often then, to show how modern and bold she is, flexes a foot.
I was halfway across the street when I overheard two flashily dressed patrons chatting by an idling limo that blocked the door.
A similar kind of ingenuity — although less flashily done — appears in "Wide Sargasso Sea," in which Jean Rhys imagines the life of the first Mrs. Rochester in "Jane Eyre".
Growing up in Detroit in the 1960s, he couldn't help seeing the flashily dressed rakes in red convertible Eldorados, men who became his source material for Sporting Life.
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