Sentence examples for flashy surface from inspiring English sources

I don't like the idea of Mr. McGregor's choreography in anybody's lifeblood because it's so expressively empty, so preoccupied with flashy surface effects.

The corrupt themselves are trying to leave too, and experts reckon they are doing so in greater numbers because of President Xi Jinping's sustained anti-corruption drive, now in its second year.The broad wave of middle-class emigration flows on beneath that flashy surface, distinct from it though very much aware of it.

Underneath its flashy surface, ballroom evolved into a complex world with its own hierarchies, customs, and lingo.

In a period when, increasingly, flashy surface-fixated directors no longer make films, they take films (just as photographers don't make but take photographs), it's worth recalling that for many years the middle ground of French cinema was kept alive by Truffaut, who was determined not to let it remain the sole preserve of hacks and journeymen.

Here the flashy surfaces of the dances are all that's going on in terms of serious expression.

But there isn't much going on beneath the flashy surfaces of the performance; Cody's suffering, which borders on the suicidal, lacks a convincing emotional core.

Underneath their flashy surfaces, these houses aren't nearly as different from the banal McMansions as they aspire to be; they're attention-getting structures disconnected from their surroundings.

Franco:  I knew that Harmony wanted to make the film very flashy on the surface, and I thought there should be something in the character that goes with that but also something that pushes back against it.

Catchments with a flashy hydrology due to surface runoff pose a particular challenge as intense short duration rainfall events may account for a significant portion of the total diffuse transfer of pollution from soil to water in any hydrological year.

No lithographer that I'm aware of can conjure such tactile surfaces and flashy atmospheric effects.

One storage describes the "flashy" response of impervious surfaces, another pervious areas and finally one storage describes subsurface flow.