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flaunting
1. I was flaunting with my sunglasses on, trying to show off for the paparazzi's eye that was on me
2. It left the wielder somewhat vulnerable to frontal jabs however, so it was traditionally more for flaunting prowess
3. Modern conventions have apparently lost its (reasoned) capacity to appreciate, at their face value, the (potential) pitfalls of unbecoming attitudes although (seemingly) encouraging the flaunting of anti-social behavior that is typically provided refuge in recently minted (psychogenic) disorders
4. Meanwhile, future (employment) opportunities continue to look grim for the American Worker as companies are presently finding themselves in the enviable position of being able to secure their labor requirements from an expanding (global) pool of labor including such (potential) resources who are routinely flaunting our nation‘s borders
5. Some people take pride in ―slumming‖; especially the well to do affected by an abstract need to ―connect‖ with the ―people‖ (―Hey, I‘m just a regular guy like anybody else‖) while others, on the other hand, enjoy flaunting conventions for their own sake whereas others (may) feel that ―proper‖ attire is no longer relevant and then there are those who have simply developed lazy habits
6. The flaunting arrogance of today‘s teachers, themselves victims of social engineering a generation ago, is presently under siege by a new generation of (thoughtful) students who, armed with their own (ideological) arsenal of values, may not be such willing accomplices as their parents
7. For these reasons many athletes are given free passes to showcase their (baser) impulses, (reflecting their own true nature, perhaps,) by flaunting such boorish attitudes that seeks to provide ―entertainment‖ value to the lowest elements of our society while enthusiastically dancing to the beat of their own drums without regard to proper style and form
8. What I have observed, however, is a procession of global wars, famine, pestilence and disease, a decline in civility and (polite) manners, greed and rabid materialism, a diminution of moral and spiritual values, corporate and political corruption, consumer gluttony, disinterested parents and teachers, dysfunctional households, racism, steroids, offensive rap-music, pedophilia, teenage pregnancies and abortion, social unrest, selfishness and indifference, self-centeredness and conceit, the flaunting of immodest and indecent behavior and the glorification of stupidity in general
9. She’d already had Mike talk to him about flaunting his newfound wealth
10. There were more Democratic voters in Belle Cors than Republicans, and flaunting one’s politics could be bad for business
11. Though I must confess that I indeed smiled with satisfaction upon evoking in my article Clinton’s troubles with interns, but I was not flaunting my delight at you
12. after all, the chance to impress the home buyers by flaunting
13. flaunting his five minutes of fame: he was soon fired thereafter
14. The anticipated thrill of flaunting Tobias in Michael's
15. When Jon emerged, sullenly flaunting his bruised and battered countenance, he obviously had no idea how, or even if our association could possibly continue
16. His loose jeans were tucked into untied Timberlands, flaunting his sculptured butt and thick legs
17. Jungir Khan ruled Zamboula, and men whispered that Nafertari, the satrap's mistress, ruled Jungir Khan; but the people went their way, flaunting their myriad colors in the streets, bargaining, disputing, gambling, swilling, loving, as the people of Zamboula have done for all the centuries its towers and minarets have lifted over the sands of the Kharamun
18. It was not at the agonized contortions and posturing of the wretched boy that he was shocked, but at the cosmic obscenity of these beings which could drag to light the abysmal secrets that sleep in the unfathomed darkness of the human soul, and find pleasure in the brazen flaunting of such things as should not be hinted at, even in restless nightmares
19. emphasizing and flaunting appearance or by trying to hide it
20. If they lived outside of this privileged community, this insulated society, they would either have to be more careful about flaunting their sexuality or suffer the consequences
21. He was an abominable wretch to put Faye through such misery, especially here on their vacation; it was as though he was flaunting his actions in hopes that she should lose her temper and suggest a separation, leaving him to his amorous duties elsewhere but without the social partner his wealth demanded
22. Though they had never been close friends, they had worked together on cases in the past and got along quite well, due in part to their mutual, longstanding friendship with Lowell, but Bobby Dan was too keen on flaunting his name and his reputation in the faces of those near him, due in part to his deep-rooted political ambitions that were instilled in him as a child by his well-connected grandfather
23. He got sidetracked by flaunting his might, and also for his involvement with the whores and the Philistines themselves
24. Today he maintains a wealthy lifestyle near Miami Florida, flaunting expensive cars, a beautiful house, and gold and diamond jewelry, financed by his mostly Hispanic followers in Latin America and the United States who contribute millions of dollars to his ministry
25. He just simply went about his business flaunting his false death like a new pair of shoes
26. convention and guiltless flaunting of rules and laws in a manner
27. flaunting her hips as she walked towards her car
28. provocative and flaunting her body to taunt the inmates
29. Still, many thought it was a direct challenge from the Captian himself, testing their mettle by her flaunting her freedom in front of their faces, while a few were simply looking out for her best interest
30. " Thus natives with Neptune sextile Pluto within one degree of exactness are the most compulsively pragmatic and individualistic – not in the sense of being rebellious or flaunting their independence of spirit, but rather they are self-contained lone wolves
31. It was further decided that it was no longer necessary to conceal his identity, but even so they didn’t go flaunting it
32. ‘What an amazing development though! But how on earth did Sathyam land up with such a dame! Maybe, owing to my destiny to have her, who knows? Whatever, won’t his friendship prove to be a thoroughfare to her favors? Just the same, won’t she need some wooing as well? I might as well dazzle Roopa straight away by flaunting my credentials right away
33. Now, how would it look for the Royal Family to be giving tacit approval and sanctuary to someone so blatantly flaunting Church law?” He thought he might have seen a slight smile at the corner of Dafne’s mouth
34. 'The king's officers were informed that a certain candidate for high office was flaunting his new title before his appointment had received royal approval
35. Do you, then, want to be pitied? I will pity you if you like, in so many carefully chosen words; but they will not be words from the heart but only, as the charming little child in the flat below us, the child with the flaunting yellow hair and audacious eyes, said of some speech that didn't ring true to her quick ears, 'from the tip of the nose
36. Why is this? could it be that when they were categorized as a class for thousands of years… they were universally hated by all the other classes? And that they finally learned after the flaunting of their wealth publicly, during what western history calls the Gilded Age never again to flaunt their wealth and their power as a class so blatantly?
37. Then came the revolutionary idea of not falling hopelessly in love with the warlord’s wife… but with one of the ladies of the castle, or the ‘keep’ instead; was broken by the idea of the killer knight flaunting all conventional traditions and customs and running away with the lady they were supposedly in love with
38. This flaunting of the customs of romance created a huge public approval by the lower class that finally could vicariously triumph over their hated rulers
39. privilege and flaunting of wealth
40. Wearing those short skirts of hers, flaunting herself, the bitch asked for it
41. Who is fooling who; in this travesty of a survival tactic that has been obsolete for over three billions years? Are the sponge stores fooling themselves that they are being upwardly mobile, or supremely cunning and smart? By getting rich off wandering customers? So the mobile masses can be sucked dry of their wealth by being sold services and products that are supposed to label them as having a special status? With special, exclusive upwardly mobile services and products that only rich people can afford… to display their excess conspicuous consumption in public? Aping the rich nobles of the past, who defined the idea of conspicuous consumption by flaunting their obscene wealth in front of the starving masses, while sneering at their poverty?
42. Flaunting their wealth to the world in arrogant pride; by holding the most extravagant, expensive parties, and balls for the most exclusive bunch of corrupt Robber Barons they could find
43. It took 2,000 fucking years for Sulla’s Roman circus of a parade… complete with Roman dwarves, Roman midgets and Roman freaks, to be brought back to life again by European and American culture adopting this flaunting of sexual perversion and evil in public
44. And the butterflies are flaunting across the rides in the Forest
45. You prostitutes flaunting over the trottoirs or obscene in your rooms, Who am I that I should call you more obscene than myself?
46. tawdry flaunting style than were the clothes I escaped to him in, and of
47. It was showered and flounced with cream-colored Chantilly lace that had on the arm of the Zouave, in an applegreen tarlatan so wide that it reduced her waist to come from Charleston on the last blockader, and Maybelle was flaunting it as saucily as if she and not the famous Captain Butler had run the blockade
48. The man was plain stupid; worse, he was arrogant about it, flaunting his frequent logic lapses
49. I wasn’t flaunting my money
50. WHY DID I LOVE HER so much? Surely someone will read these pages and ask: What was so lovable about her? What was it that caused you, of all beings, so to love? You, a lover of men and women, a vampire, a destroyer of innocent souls, so to love? You, the focus of so much easy affection, and forever flaunting your hopeful stinging charm-why did you love her? What should I say? I didn't know her age