I have a certain flair for what's going to be a success in that direction, and of course I've been everywhere and seen everything.

For the most part, it means just first-rate shooting, combined with the trained instinct and flair of the sportsman.

The careerist instinct, the inherited flair for a career, must not be confounded with the instincts of self-preservation, self-expansion or self-expression, because they are utterly different.

We live in a generation which has acquired a flair for the pathologic.

They will be shrewd, but without imagination, without flair.

My vigilance, my astuteness, my resource unfathomable, my flair, my soul of an artist, my patience inexhaustible, my address so firm and yet so delicate, my mastery of the minds of those others less gifted, my" "Oh, stow it!"

He felt singularly sure he had played the gratuitous ass in this affair, and he didn't in the least desire to see the reflection of a like conviction in the eyes of a pretty young woman with a flair for the ridiculous.

Endymion, who had an exquisite flair for the approval of his own class, soon learned to take an honest pride in his liberalism and to enjoy its discreet display.

The flair of a jest is lost in a pause.

When Percy said some one had flair, it was the highest praise he could give.

He always told me I had flair, and that was why he was so eager to put my stories in his papers.

I remember his remark when that dreadful man, Arthur Gideon, said in some review or other (I dislike his reviews, they are so conceited and cocksure, and show often such bad taste), 'Flair and genius are incompatible.'

Percy said simply, 'Flair is genius.'

No, I don't think I have flair; I think I have, instead, a message; or many messages.

I had done nothing beyond making Grim's acquaintance and by good luck tickling his flair for odd friendship.

If the researcher had not followed a false scent across the Channel, if his flair for tragic passion had not destroyed in him all sense of proportion, he could not possibly have missed it; for it stared him in the face, simple, obvious, inevitable.

(In Flair, June 1950) © 26May50; B247718.

(In Flair, July 1950)

(In Flair, Feb. 1950)

(In Flair, June 1950) © 26May50; B247718.

(In Flair, July 1950)

(In Flair, Feb. 1950)

In both these series, the inherent loveliness of Radha and the cowgirls is expressed by supple flowing line, a flair for natural posture and the inclusion of poetic images.

Sa mère étoit une chrétienne, qui l'avoit fait baptiser à la loi Grégoise (selon le rît des Grecs) "pour lui oster le flair et

Lui et son fils ont été baptisés à la Grecque, pour ôter le flair (la mauvaise odeur), et l'on m'a dit même que la mère de son fils étoit chrétienne.

I remember I noted a rabbit run confusedly into the open, and then at a fresh flare of lightning scamper back.

The shelf was lit with fires, and there was a flare of torches in the centre.

And we stood by, when, amid chanting and flare of torches and roll of cannon, his sons wrapped him in his shroud of gold thread, and lowered him into the tomb of his fathers.

They trod then afresh their ancient paths; and though it pressed upon her hatefully that he must have taken her abruptness for a smothered shock, the flare-up of her old feeling at the breath of his news, she had still to see herself condemned to allow him this, condemned really to encourage him in the mistake of believing her suspicious of feminine spite and doubtful of Miss Lindeck's zeal.

Harvard Lampoon. ~A Flirtation on the Cars.~ I did not even know her name, Nor where she lived, nor whence she came 'Twas sad, and yet Was I so very much to blame, That all my heart should start to flame, And flare and fret?

And we knew that they had food with them to eat; for this could we see with plainness, as some odd, grim flare of light from the infernal fires struck upon one or another strangely, and passed, and left them in the darkness.

lose one's temper &c 900; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool [Coll.]; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck;

V. resent, take amiss, take ill, take to heart, take offense, take umbrage, take huff, take exception; take in ill part, take in bad part, take in dudgeon; ne pas entendre raillerie [Fr.]; breathe revenge, cut up rough. fly into a rage, fall into a rage, get into a rage, fly into a passion; bridle up, bristle up, froth up, fire up, flare up; open the vials of one's wrath, pour out the vials of one's wrath.

Harmon looked at the conductor's face, as the sickly yellow flare struck on it, with a curious sensation.

Coming out of the house to reenter our automobile I saw, across the small square of the town, which by now was quite in darkness, the flare of a camp kitchen.

Within a few minutes the afterglow lost its yellowish tone and burned as a deep red flare.

The flare of a wax vesta illumined the splendours of the puce dressing-gown.

She looked up quickly, with the flare of a frown.

"II had no idea that she would flare up like that.

Yet beneath this surface calmness and gayety ran a smoldering hate, of whose presence one never dreamed, unless he saw it shoot out in an ugly flare.

In its ranks was the coster with his cockney speech and cockney wit, his fear of great silences and his sense of loneliness and desolation away from the flare of gas-lights and the raucous shouts of the crowds in Petticoat Laneso that when I met him in a field of Flanders with the mist and the long, flat marshlands about him he confessed to the almighty Hump.

Viewed from the veranda of the Marine Hotel, its vast flare on the horizon seems hardly more than an insignificant spark, like the glowing cigar-end of some guest strolling in the garden after dinner.

Her breast rose and fell, as if timed to the throbbing of that distant flare.

And as for that island"her eyes looked off toward Muloa now impending upon us and lighting up the heavens with its sullen flare "it seems incredible that I ever set foot upon it.

The mountain was breathing slowly and heavilya vast flare that lifted fanlike in the skies and died away.

Just then the sooty vapours above the edged maw of the volcano were rent by a flare of crimson, and in the fleeting instant of unnatural daylight

The flare flamed up again in his crooked eyes.

She sensed the powder-flare in her face.

Very curiously, before the soup was finished, we became aware that the candles which assisted the electric glow lamps (merely for artistic effect) began to flare in a most uncandlelike mannerthe flames turning down, as if some one were blowing downward on the wicks; and at the same time the complaints of "Draughts, horrid draughts!" became general, and from every quarter.

Emett had a flare in his eye, Jones looked darker and more grim than ever, and I had sensations that boded ill to old Sultan.