Word: flair
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Still, despite all her obvious flaws, he has to admit that Muriel has a certain flair. In one of her spirited moments, she belts out a reckless rendition of "War Is Hell On the Homefront, Too." Muriel, he realizes, is a fighter. Her pathetic ignorance wages war on the conventional proprieties that have long ossified the rest of the Learys. Macon's decision to give up middle-class respectability for its underside of secondhand thrift shops and carry-out pizza dinners turns out, ironically, to be less of an escape than an adventure in responsibility. He discovers himself feeling...
...land. It's low country, so they have just had to create a country. See here, every drainage ditch is indicated, every wharf. The tulip areas are down here. Here are the dunes. With the changing and the reclaiming, the mapping has to be precise. They have an artistic flair...
...unseat the defending champion McEnroe with any particular flair. His serve was not particularly strong, going in only 57 percent of the time. He broke McEnroe only three times, while losing his serve just once. He hit a quiet 42 winners and made 18 unforced errors. He even double-faulted four times...
...signs of removing any of those obstacles. Says one senior Chinese diplomat: "I think because Gorbachev is more flexible, he will be harder to deal with." His meaning: Gorbachev is likely to combine hard-line positions with just enough concessions on minor matters, and just enough public relations flair, to make those positions appear more reasonable than in the past...
...contrast, new Foreign Minister Shevardnadze is being cast by Kremlin image makers in the Gorbachev mold: honest, unconventional and with a flair for public relations. Described by one U.S. official in Washington as a "tough and capable man," Shevardnadze has visited only nine countries and has never served as a Soviet diplomat. Skeptics in Moscow have declared that the Foreign Minister's only qualification for his new job is that "he speaks a foreign language -- Georgian." (He is, however, said to speak some German.) Says Marshall Goldman of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "Of all the things that Gorbachev...