As a filmmaker, Boyle makes use of a florid color palette, quick, tourettic cuts and wildly tilted frames.
Later, tango singers, led by Carlos Gardel, wedded melancholic lyrics of urban alienation and unrequited love to tango's florid musical notes.
And their notes on wines were often florid if rather vague on particulars.
The headlines have been as dramatic as ever, but however florid the exposition any narrative when compared to 2008 simply cannot compete.
Indian recipes assume a similarly deep knowledge of cooking, although they splendidly combine brevity with the sort of florid touches that David admired.
Barash dismisses, on flimsy grounds, the idea that it is the florid advertisements of chimps that need explaining, and not our lack of them.
And Qadhafi aimed his florid rhetoric at rebel fighters, not civilians.
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The florid abusive rhetoric distracts from the multiple taxation of capital investment income, which is actually taxed at least four separate times under our tax code.
In interpretive style, he tends toward subtlety rather than flamboyance, avoiding the abrupt accents, florid ornaments, and freewheeling tempos that are fashionable in Baroque performance practice.
Nineteenth-century classical composers were great fans of recomposition, some of it flamboyantly transformational, as in Franz Liszt's florid transcriptions for solo piano of Franz Schubert's songs.
The old man, well accustomed to these sorts of speeches, though not usually this florid, filed away at his nails and waited for the breeze to stop.
Such florid romanticism may provoke derision on the other side of the Atlantic, never mind how closely it parallels Mr Bush's belief in his duty to spread freedom.
Ignatius Huggeford in florid script, has a perfectly ordinary brass movement, except for the enormous ruby incongruously affixed to it, like a flamboyant hood ornament on a Honda Civic.
Another dilemma: Should I defend my original column (" Fat, florid, farcical") or the imaginary Microsoft suck-up job that Dvorak thinks I wrote and somewhat justifiably tees off on?
There were clerics in white turbans, Western ambassadors in suits, police and army generals in full ceremonial dress, soldiers with berets and florid, Saddam-style moustaches, and women both veiled and unveiled.
The prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, may be the most prolific (and florid) of all, with eight books to his name, including two of poetry and a history of Napoleon's 100 days.
Former Afghan officials say that the bribery and influence-peddling was at times florid and spectacular, with some of it unfolding in Dubai, the Vegas-like sheikhdom where many high Afghan officials maintain second homes.
French designer Ruhlmann (1879-1933) was known for using ivory and rare woods like Macassar ebony to make pieces with streamlined shapes and simple curves a departure from the ornate, florid carvings of the Art Nouveau style that predated him.
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Corporate sponsors may be trying to burnish their companies' reputations (why else so free with shareholders' money?), but it's not as though today's patrons of the arts expect the florid lickspittlery once lavished on those who provided artists their livings.
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Finally, when everyone seemed exhausted from too much talking and jittery from too much tea, we left the castle after many florid pronouncements from all sides testifying as to the great productivity of the day and assurances to meet again soon.
But Jordan manages to unite everything the florid imagery, the dark emotional undertones, the flaky comedy, the astonishing physical beauty of the Irish seacoast into a single, unbroken mood, a smooth arc connecting the past and the present, the familiar and the unforeseen.
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