I ask if her flair for happiness – it breathes through her work – comes from her childhood.
The others were Matthew Grills, a tenor who hit the high C's in "Ah, mes amis," from Donizetti's "Fille du Régiment," with solidity if not flair, and Anthony Clark Evans, a baritone who had been similarly bland in arias from Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" and Mozart's "Nozze di Figaro".
Certainly at their best, Sporting can be an exciting force in attack, and the likes of Zusi have the skill to unlock defenses, but at times it seems as if such flair as they do display seems to be in direct proportion to their ability to impose themselves physically on teams they outwork.
Cheating is acceptable, if done with flair.
His style has flair (if at times too much), and so does his erudition.
If not with flair, well then, at least with conviction -- and lots of jewelry.
He's got that flair, if not this year then in the next few years".
It was an innings of power and flair, if hardly chanceless, and deserving of an England victory.
Mackintosh revealed his artistic flair if not his academic capabilities at an early age, and when he was 16 enrolled as an evening student at the Glasgow School of Art.
It was also the year of countercultural statements like "Easy Rider," "Medium Cool," "Alice's Restaurant," "The Sterile Cuckoo" and "If"; the European flair of "Stolen Kisses" and "Z"; and the retro sophistication of "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?," "The Wild Bunch" and "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie".
