Sentence examples for were not flamboyant from inspiring English sources

During President Hosni Mubarak's nearly 30-year rule, he and his family were not flamboyant with their wealth, particularly by the standards of other leaders in the Middle East.

Jay-Z is not flamboyant in the way that rappers are expected to be flamboyant.

Kings of Leon, which played its sturdy, modernized Southern rock, is not flamboyant onstage.

"It's not flamboyant, but it's a kind of great, exuberant building," she said.

"I'm not flamboyant," James Stanford told The Dallas Morning News for an article published Wednesday.

On the other hand, as Diana Vreeland said: "Pink is the navy blue of India" – it is not flamboyant there at all.

Jim Collins, one of America's most popular gurus, argues that the best chief executives are not flamboyant visionaries but "humble, self-effacing, diligent and resolute souls".

Zysblat stays out of the spotlight, and that's just the way that artists today like it, said Trynka, who wrote "Starman: David Bowie". "He's not flamboyant.

His self-confidence has never been in question, but he is not flamboyant or given to excess -- at least not for someone worth nearly $10 billion.

Assistant Gill Chatfield points out the Tennyson plaque ("It's only little: we're not flamboyant in Louth") and delves in the storerooms for interesting editions.

Albert Sack, dean of Manhattan's Americana dealers, could almost have been describing that piece: "Boston neo-Classical furniture is not flamboyant," he said.