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However, once she had it, she seemed to come to terms with herself and almost stopped flouncing about.

She had hair that was almost orange, that flounced about her shoulders as she moved.

Mrs. Willis-Willingham flounced about with pearls dripping from her hands.

Look, how muddy his horse is, flouncing about in the swamp; the dogs, too, look rather crestfallen.

In one, Mr. Mercy flounces about in a dress as if he vainly sought to be a movie star.

To show the coats, models passed through, fanned themselves and flounced about, taking tipsy, uncertain steps, as if they were in an absinthe stupor.

"Moan and shout and flounce about!"

The truck was empty except for two men who were flouncing about on the front seat as though they intended to scramble back through and out the rear.

Throughout, Mr. Lorey flounces about aimlessly.

The housemaid looked, he thought, with infinite disdain at the rusty mourning and flamboyant tie, and flounced about and led him upstairs.

Although in latter days the two dames developed an excessively arch performing style, flouncing about in faked pussycat rivalry, they certainly sang beautifully and brought much neglected repertory to light.

Except it is disappointing that all we see in the opera house are eight necrophiliac hoydens flouncing about a morgue in funny clothes, peeking under sheets at dead warriors and stroking cold bodies.

The man was certainly Greer Harland, with his puffy face and shocky hair, which was flouncing about as he bobbed in front of a music cabinet, pawing among stacks of sheet music.

Mr. Patterson's housekeeper, who flounces about on her spindly toes and misses nothing despite a lot of assiduous buffing of her long nails, adds greatly to the wonderfully mixed emotions of that moment.

When he did not don it, but continued to wear the woolens given him by Thurid, Ailsa pouted and flounced about the hall, flaunting her displeasure until he put it on to quiet her.

The music industry simply doesn't allow people to accrue the kind of wealth that gives the opportunity to flounce about the world's stages in crowns and gowns, with multiple costume changes and a cornucopia of leotards.

Flouncing about in her furs and miniskirts and drinking heavily, she uses emotional blackmail to convince Hilary to let her bed her husband --before returning to Paris and her own, evidently unsatisfying, marriage.

Many bumbles have breathed their last since Kate Bush first arrived on our screens, flouncing about in dry ice and funeral shroud, oddly crowing 'Wuthering Heights'; obviously different and apart from any musical movement before or since.

Miranda describes her lover brilliantly as "like a genius, only without the accomplishments", to which Gallo responds with elan, flouncing about moodily and thrusting out his pointed chin as if waiting for someone to come along and punch it.

This, of course, is very unfair: it is just not reasonable for me to flounce about in the bathroom for hours and then make a man feel inadequate when I catch him using my dental floss. or to bellow in disgust when I find out he blow-dries his hair.

Case in point: On Saturday I randomly ended up on the rooftop of Maggie Mae's to catch Australia's Operator Please--and the instant they started bouncing and flouncing about the stage, I realized I'd totally made the right decision to flee the Vevo scene.

Among other targets, the movie takes pointed aim at the MTV mystique as it is embodied by the evil Taylor, who flounces about spitting outrageous venom, and the goofily narcissistic Brock, who would rather watch himself on a movie-size television screen than succumb to Taylor's slavering advances.

He was drowned out by more audience noise, this time sounding shocked, with an undertone of anger-maybe because of the word "strumpet," but maybe also because of the way Mamie was flouncing about and looking at them with a knowing half smile; don't ask me how a bodiless head can flounce, but hers did.