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.
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).
"Stride of Pride" opened with Jack's version of a walk of shame (stride of pride!): Two hairs out of place, wearing the same flashy "night tie" from last night, rolling up in a town car, you know how it goes.
David Dimbleby today promised the BBC would not "sex up" its coverage of what promises to be a less than thrilling general election in a thinly disguised dig at ITV's flashy plans for poll night.
(Las Vegas, with its flashy casinos that run all night, far outshines the more sedate but similarly economically productive Salt Lake City, whose residents tend go to bed earlier).
No, You're Not," for example, Jake Heggie transforms the complex, breathless ensemble number "A Weekend in the Country" (from "A Little Night Music") into a flashy, finger-twisting showpiece.
Yet on that night, at that bar, the flashy watch dangled from his wrist.
To develop new audiences, the theater conducts outreach activities in city schools and country towns and stages youth-oriented concerts, like a "pop opera" night of famous arias and flashy effects.
Later that night near the Embankment, we pass a flashy stretch limousine, presumably hired by girls on their hen night.
