Word: flaunting
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...Exactly what New Delhi is planning remains a mystery. "Wait and watch," was Vajpayee's heavy warning last week in Srinagar. Both sides have taken care not to publically flaunt their nuclear capabilities: Islamabad swiftly denounced one hard-line minister who did. Vajpayee told local newspaper editors in Jammu that as a first step New Delhi was considering abandoning a treaty that ensures the free flow of three rivers including the Indus, which originate in Indian-administered Kashmir and run through the mountains to irrigate Pakistan's northeastern bread basket. A second option is surgical strikes by the air force...
...will also be another opportunity for the team to flaunt its depth again as the stretch run nears...
...like ‘kooky,’ ‘wacko’ and ‘lunatic’ are essential parts of a New York vocabulary, it’s much harder to define the elusive spirit of eccentricity that pervades Cambridge. Where New Yorkers freely flaunt their weirdness, Cantabridgians are Sphinx-like, vaguely strange, yet indecipherable...
...many restaurateurs, silence isn't golden: they flaunt a boisterous atmosphere so that diners will think they're in a happening eatery. "In a lot of places, high noise levels are built in," says Tim Zagat, publisher of the dining guides. "It's part of the shtick." Reed Goldstein, manager of an Angelo & Maxie's steak house, is quite happy that his restaurant is known as one of New York's noisiest. "As the night goes on, it gets louder," he says. "We turn up the music. We don't get a lot of complaints. It's a happy feeling...
That he is self-appointed, of course, means you take your chances when you pony up your money and ask him something. He holds no degree in conversational arts, nor does he flaunt any other credentials that lend weight to the quality of his operation. He does, as mentioned above, possess the book-smarts to craft articulate and lucid answers to the questions put to him. Yet his ideas, frankly, are not that interesting. There is little reason for the intelligent viewer to sit through another discourse on the problems of our society?...