Sentence examples for flashy life from inspiring English sources

She is an actual ancestor of the author, the sister of Napoleon and quite the character: vain, bored, selfish and sexy, like a Madame Bovary who gets the flashy life she wants.

Greta Gerwig's monstrous comic creation Brooke lives the flashy life she wants others to think she leads while hiding the truth of who she really is – a failed ex-bully with no friends.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the cables had come up in her discussions with foreign leaders throughout the day, most notably in a spirited exchange with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, who was criticized for his flashy life and close ties to Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

The broad outlines are these: Kicked out of the British Army at 18 (for going AWOL with a girl), young Chapman was drawn, moth to flame, to the louche nightclubs of Soho, table hopping between Ivor Novello and Noël Coward, and pursuing a flashy life supported by petty crime.

"He might have lived flashy in life," a gravedigger said.

Istanbul has emerged as one of Europe's hottest centers of chic, with the designer boutique hotels, flashy night life and cosmopolitan price tags to match.

In a ripping old-fashioned star turn as Shakespeare's Richard III, Mr. Spacey gives fierce and flashy physical life to every twist of a power-mad man's corkscrew mind.

The production was first staged over the summer at the Old Vic Theater in London (where Ben Brantley wrote that Mr. Spacey "gives fierce and flashy physical life to every twist of a power-mad man's corkscrew mind") and will be the final season of the Bridge Project, a three-year series of collaborations among the academy, the Old Vic and Neal Street, Mr. Mendes's company.

She's the star of a new A&E reality show that reveals the flashy, bejeweled life of her "make him an offer he can't refuse" family.

While it has some brief, flashy moments, life is purposeless and meaningless.

The Lebanese capital surely has a touch of Parisian glamour, but it also has a dash of Berlin (bullet-pocked buildings after a civil war that lasted from 1975 to 1990) and Miami (flashy night-life zones choked with Ferraris and S.U.V.'s).