Word: flair
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...problem is not, as a few literary purists suggest, an inherent lack of quality in any work that appeals to a mass audience. Popular fiction is an important art form, with its own distinctive rules and a few acknowledged masters whose works combine popular appeal with genuine literary flair. Nor does the fault lie with the tastes of the reading public, for it regularly receives the works of the masters--the LeCarres, the John D. MacDonalds--enthusiastically. Rather, the problem stems from the fact that the public can only buy what the publishers put in the bookstores--and American publishers...
...apologies for his flair, he insisted. It had all been intentional. "I rarely did anything impetuously. The steps were prepared over a long period of time," he said. "But then things were done dramatically. We had to have drama to focus the attention of the American people ... I think that most Americans liked shuttle diplomacy...
Monkey [1956, 1968]--You like to live the good life. You have a flair for decision making and finance...
...Carters will see most are the Lances. No other members of the White House family are likely to emerge as social lions (most Carter staffers, says Vicki Bagley, "have an intense feeling for work rather than play"). But the Lances have both the wherewithal (from Atlanta banking) and the flair to become the Administration's top entertainers. So far, they have kept a down-home profile. The eleven-room house they rent from Yolande Fox is considerably smaller than their 40-room mansion in Atlanta, where they entertain elegantly in a dining room that can seat 50 people. Their...
...Washington Post is an ordinary American paper that willed itself to be better. It still carries much of the standard dreck-lovelorn columns, horoscopes, beauty hints-as well as 25 comics. But to this compost heap the Post has added solid and penetrating reporting and an engaging flair...