Word: flair
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...woman narrator here can afford to be much more subjective than the poet; the urban chic, Seventies ideal of woman-as-stick is livened up by the speaker's flair. Here, the language gives power to this woman in her struggle against male-dominated popular fashion, against Manhattan...
...courts, with their flair for poetic justice, furthered those images when they doled out legal justice. Locke, for his pains, got a seven-to 10-year sentence, he must serve at least 28 months before becoming eligible for parole. He currently resides in Walpole, the Alcatraz of New England Von Bulow has yet to receive a sentence and most likely won't for some time. If the day ever comes when he is forced to do time, it will most likely be in a minimum security set-up more suitable for one of his social stature. The parallel between...
...romantic couple's incompatibility appears to be more his fault than hers. Mouis is a fine, precise dancer with exquisite balance and an engaging flair for comedic flirtation. Her Kitri-Dulcinea is a model of girlish exuberance and mischief, quick in her pirouettes and unquiveringly exact in her arabesques...
Nureyev, by contrast, is characteristically imprecise and daring; he has wild flair, but his style is messy. His balance fails him at crucial instants, his turns leave him looking slightly dizzy, and--worst of all--he seems oddly disinterested in Mouis, as if he'd rather be off somewhere making his next conquest. His finest moments occur in the last act, when Basilio and Kitri-Dulcinea each perform-three dramatic, whirling solos...
...literary convict is really a terrible writer? String him up? Will we need a panel of literary judges to meet the first Monday of every month at Elaine's in Manhattan to hear its cases? If the perpetrator of the Texas chain-saw massacre shows a certain flair for the short story...