Word: flaunting
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...Washington, the king, queen and princesses will attend events such as "Louisiana Alive," where the best chefs of Louisiana will flaunt their skill, according to Jefferson. The princesses and several honorary queens will pay homage to Jefferson and Bryan, who will reign over the formal ball from an elaborate throne...
This Democratic guilt complex thing worries me. What's the fun of victory if you can't flaunt it? Harry J. Wilson, everyone's favorite campus Republican, wore a T-shirt with Reagan's face on it to the last day of our "American Presidency" section during our first year. Should I run out and purchase a Clinton T-shirt? (Or one of The Crimson's commemorative victory T-shirts?) Hum "Hail to the Chief" as I walk into tutorial next week? Affect a Southern accent...
...think private lives basically should be off the agenda, and I think public trust should be on the agenda. So if you flaunt -- if you conduct yourself in such a way as to cause diminution, for example, of this office on a character question, yes, that should be fair game...
...their houses, and that woman will be blessed with the master's favors. His strategy, supported by millenniums of male domination, is divide and conquer. So the caged princesses must play power games, with their rivals as opponents and their servants as pawns. Subtly, sullenly, the women flaunt their femininity -- and in doing so destroy any chance for their sisterhood to flower. Songlian, the youngest, is the first to rebel against this system. A tragic comeuppance awaits...
Shaw contrives this plot to emphasize the richness of his characters, who flaunt themselves shamelessly in the attempt to cope with the fin-de-siecle...