Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opera was performed last night with a flair which enhanced its entertaining qualities. Matilda Cole, as the wife, sang her florid part with an appropriately sly ease. Alan Rinzler seemed as though he was satirizing West Side Story more than anything else, but his delivery of two difficult arias more than compensated for his grotesque facial expressions...
...might well be the chieftain with the stature and ability to save the Saudi regime. He is widely considered abler, more vigorous and more cultivated than his elder brother. In the desert campaigns of the '20s and '30s he fought for his warrior-father with greater flair and daring. While his taciturn brother stayed home holding interminable levees among dusty tribal sheiks, Feisal, majestically robed and daggered, represented his country at international conferences in Europe and America...
...nation accustomed to decorous politics, Diefenbaker is staging a dramatically different campaign. A onetime top criminal lawyer with a flair for courtroom oratory, he is barnstorming the country, pulling in big demonstrative audiences. Standing before giant-sized portraits of himself, blue eyes blazing, he heaps scorn on his political opponents ("they talked; we acted"), blames Liberal policies for Canada's recession, promises a huge public-works program. With occasional overtones of Yankee-baiting, he sweepingly blames the farm recession on the dumping of U.S. surpluses, calls for the creation of new industries to process Canadian raw materials instead...
...arms and legs not quite under control. But in the neatly ordered empire of the chessboard, he moves with vast precision. Swiftly he picks his way among the possibilities; haughtily he sidesteps the traps. Experts compare his aggressive, scientific style to that of Russia's famed Alekhine, his flair for combinations to the touch...
Spillane's Hammer: He had the old familiar flair for violence and the leer for sex. And, true to fiction, Private Eye Mike Hammer was soon mixed up with a wild-eyed client and a wide-eyed doll. When the shooting was over, the client lay dead on the waterfront and the doll was off to the electric chair. "You burn me up," she murmured to Hammer as she was taken away. "No," Mike gently corrected, "the warden does that...