Word: flaunting
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...shirt costume, you couldn't tell a millionaire from an auto mechanic. Jeans identified you with an entire generation, not a particular group, race, nationality or sex. But the rich don't want to blend in with the working class any more. We want clothes that flaunt our individuality, that show off our status, and the rich want to stand out." Having Calvin Klein's name or Gloria Vanderbilt's signature attached to the hind portion of a pair of denims is one way to stand out a little bit, but moniker flash may also...
Rintels remembers one Lowell House classmate "whose girlfriend lived with him--if you didn't flaunt it, it was okay...
Given the supposition that "artistic license" allows artists to flaunt tastelessness and crudity, symbols still cannot contradict truth. There was that circumcision. There is also another historical fact: in Christ's time men were crucified with their backs to the cross, facing spectators; women, the other...
...Central Plains have been 36° below normal. Not since record keeping began had there been December days so cold in Chicago (-25°), New Orleans (14°) and dozens of other places in the country's heartland. Nor did the vicious cold just blow in, flaunt its power briefly and leave. The mercury went down and stayed down: stayed below zero for eight days in Omaha, ten days in Sioux Falls, S. Dak., three days in St. Louis. Much of the South suffered the most devastating cold in 20 years, and in the Great Plains and Midwest, weather...
...really hurts and disappoints me to find that I can't even find support here," Szoka told the council. "This is not a personal issue. It's not a man-woman issue. It's not a question of my trying to flaunt authority. It is a question of my absolute duty to stand for, to protect and to defend the doctrine of the church which has to do with human life." Szoka said that all he wanted from Mansour was a simple statement: "I am opposed to Medicaid funding for abortions...