Word: flair
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...shivered in the streets outside his hotel, concertgoers cheerfully paid four times the normal Paris prices for their tickets. Richter, in return, expressed his feelings for Paris by swooping around town with a belle epoque enthusiasm scarcely expected from a visiting Soviet-chik. "Such taste, such wonderful music, such flair!" he proclaimed, having passed an evening watching the strippers at the Crazy Horse Saloon. "I could happily spend two or three days in here...
...Years, Vols. II and III of Henry James, by Leon Edel. Author Edel's vast work, which will run to four volumes and which promises to be the definitive biography of James, is written with a scholar's exhaustive combing of detail and a novelist's flair for mood and motive...
...bombed their own airfields before fleeing to Florida. On the day of the invasion, he denied any U.S. responsibility. A few days later, Kennedy took complete responsibility for the Bay of Pigs-and the planes were revealed to be U.S. bombers that had been disguised, with little flair for the art, by the CIA. Deeply hurt, Stevenson was finally soothed with promises of better future liaison...
...times his flair for strong leadership strained the smoothly meshed G.M. System. Some aides thought that he delved too deeply into the affairs of autonomous divisions, and to many employees, the handsome man with pencil-thin mustache seemed autocratic and distant. To all he sometimes seemed ambitious...
Carter Wilson's new play is neither consistent nor polished. But it is never less than intriguing and at times rises to moments of dramatic flair. He and Walton have staged a successful experiment in the most instructive sense...