Belle and Sebastian: Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance Once considered shorthand for anything twee and indie, Belle and Sebastian throw disco flourishes and dry humour into this ninth studio album.
Recent rhetorical flourishes from father-of-two Barack Obama, the President of the United States, have tossed climate change into this same bucket of ethical decisions.
From another player's mouth, these lines would sound corny and false, but United fans were drawn to Cantona's romantic flourishes.
Yet, for the sake of a couple of dispatch-box flourishes, Brown reduced it to 20p, leaving revenue spending underfunded and capital spending dependent on expensive PFI schemes which will contribute to the budget deficit for years to come.
Cultures where bullying flourishes have been characterised as competitive, adversarial and politicised.
The posturing, the rhetorical flourishes, the shows of defiance had gone on for long enough.
Featuring vocalist Kyan, it's got all the sonic flourishes you'd expect from a Madeon song – chopped-up and filtered vocals, big spacious synth riffs, a huge drop – but comes enveloped in a sky-scraping chorus that should help it find a nice home on the Radio 1 playlist.
The closest we come is when Hitchcock stands in the lobby outside the premiere, faux-conducting Bernard Hermann's slashing violins; he has a combination of a maestro's manual flourishes and a murderer's manic stabbing motions as the audience inside wails and howls its way through the shower scene.
If so, it is not too late to purge the coming games of their most egregious flourishes and waste.
And in the many places where contraband trade flourishes they have become partners in crime.
London's network shrinks and Paris flourishes.
