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"I like a man who knows good things and I liked your reaction when you spotted that Haydn for Hohmann's recording. Muller pretends to know music, but he likes the flashiness of Möhlwehr." Hell, I'd cut my eye teeth on that stuff; my father had been first violinist in an orchestra, and had considered me a traitor when I was born without perfect pitch.
The markets of San Francisco were much to blame for the flashiness of the domestic interior: they were stocked with the gaudiest fixtures and textures, and in the inspection of them the eye was bewildered and the taste demoralized.
The greater portion of it has a bright, amber-coloured, monotonous flashiness about it, which flares the eyes if gazed at long, and makes other things, if looked at directly afterwards, yellow-hued; and it is surmounted with a number of minor designs, reminding one of the big oddities in a mammoth keleidoscope.
He had bought a new suit, brilliant blue, almost electric in its flashiness, nor had he been careful as to style. The cut of the trousers was somewhat along the lines of fifteen years before, with their peg tops and heavy cuffs. Beneath the vest, a glowing, watermelon-pink shirt glared forth from the protection of a purple tie.
It is not often that such a sound and yet readable English novel is republished in America. The due mean between flashiness and dulness is hard to be attained, but we have it here. There is neither a prosy page nor a sensational chapter in it. It is a nice book for a clean hearth and an easy chair.
Was it the tall youth with the commonplace good looks opposite to her? Linforth detected now a certain flashiness in his well grooming which he had not noticed before. Or was it the fat insignificant young man three seats away from her? A rather gross young person, Linforth thought him the offspring of some provincial tradesman who had retired with a fortune and made a gentleman of his son.
Jones was slightly formal also. Remembering the hospitable traits of my host and hostess, I concluded that the young man was not exactly to their taste. Indeed, a certain jauntiness in dress that verged toward flashiness would not naturally predispose them in his favor. But Adah, although disclaiming any special interest in him, seemed pleased with his attentions.
It is one of those houses of which there used to be scores within the immediate neighbourhood of London of which there still are dozens, although, alas! they are yearly disappearing to make room for gay rows of pert, upstart villas, whose tawdry flashiness ill replaces the sedate respectability of their last-century predecessors.
Lammle's friends, coarse and thick-lipped, with fingers so covered with rings that they could hardly hold their gold pencils do they remind us of anybody? Mr. Fledgeby, with his little ugly eyes and social flashiness and craven bodily servility might not some fanatic like M. Drumont make interesting conjectures about him?
The Jew laughed softly, the welsher grimly, at the compliment they paid the Church; Baroni put up his papers into a neat Russia letter book. Excellently dressed, without a touch of flashiness, he did look eminently respectable and lingered a moment. "I say, dear child; vat if de Marquis vant to buy off and hush up?
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