flamboyance

• “Back in the seemingly pre-historic 1950s an interviewer asked pianist Liberace if it bothered him that people made fun of his flamboyance (which was a code word, back then for being gay).”

  Tim Berry: Who's Winning the Cramer vs. Stewart Battle?

• “Pigliucci's embarrassment is a result of his own "flamboyance" - further in evidence at his”

  ScreenTalk

• “* the great Colossus POV as it spies on Forbin, especially in the more titillating sections and all of that visual flamboyance is coupled with the magnificently chilling audio centerpiece: the Voice of Colossus and its horrifying implacable tone.”

  Show #29: Pre-show Discussion : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas

• “People recall the flamboyance, the excesses and the scandals, but consider instead the work; Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood, those wonderful holiday stories on TV about old ladies and little boys and, of course, his extraordinary journalism.”

  Forbes: Hollywood's Capote, And Mine

• “Snow fields his position the way Ozzie Smith fielded his, with a certain flamboyance.”

  USATODAY.com - Defense rules in Gold-Glove NLCS

• “Perhaps it was the "flamboyance" that explained why he never clinched the deal with Robert Mugabe, the famously homophobic Zimbabwean strongman who has accused Tony Blair of being a "gay gangster" leading "the gay government of the gay United gay Kingdom," and prides himself on being able to spot "flamboyance" at 200 yards.”

  The Pariah Guy

• “One Pigliucci associate has referred to Pigliucci's "flamboyance".”

  ScreenTalk

• “It is telling, however, that they equate gayness and flamboyance with disruption, Meador said.”

  USA Today: Gay couple shut out of Creation Museum date night

• “It has a style that makes understatement seem like flamboyance.”

  The Guardian: My hero: the BBC World Service by Jeremy Paxman

• “From the flamboyance of Busta Rhymes to the finesse of Bono: these are the peers who have inspired me throughout my journey.”

  Simon & Schuster: Fallin’ Up

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