A flouncing, flawed concept album of huge ambition from a fearless talent.

She was standing near the window, still wearing her mink coat, framed by the elaborate floral curtains and the ridiculous flouncing that topped them.

There was so much flouncing, pouting and preening that one could easily have criticized the troupe for being excessively mannered.

Michele Sorel made a flouncing, dancing, mugging Despina, pushing her part to the edge of shtick.

Keely Garfield's gaze and small-boned flouncing have a wicked glint to them, as do the profoundly human creatures she finds under the rocks pulled up by her dances.

Faith Prince wants us to know that she is a very different creature from her signature stage role, Adelaide, the flouncing, jouncing New York tootsie of "Guys and Dolls."

Every incident, reaction and gag is prolonged far past its potential for amusement; the direction and acting filled in with a little flouncing, a little simpering, a little pouting and a lot of mugging.

Barry Leon stood out as an exuberant, tough little newsboy who never stops moving, as did Gianna Russillo as George's flouncing, dreaming little sister and Gerald Premick as an otherwise cheerfully ordinary drunk.

Leading the list of strident prima donnas in a film that would be twice as funny if it tried half as hard, is Poncho Ramirez (Juan Carlos Hernandez), a flouncing, tantrum-throwing jeans designer whose career is on the skids.

And she began a scene between the two of them, so exact in voice and manner that it seemed to us as if there were really two folk before us: the stern old mother with her hand up like an ear-trumpet, and her flouncing, bouncing daughter.

If he's dead, Fay - played by Ms. Posey as a flouncing, vinegary, thoroughly modern woman who is the antithesis of the damsels in distress and slinky double agents usually found in spy movies - will have legal possession of his notebooks.

He also made two cameo appearances in the Midlands-based soap opera Crossroads, as a flouncing, difficult customer at the Crossroads Motel and as the chauffeur at the wedding of Meg Richardson (played by his close friend Noele Gordon).

Since Aphrodite rose from the waves and rode a scallop shell over the Aegean, the bivalve's sweet meat and distinct shell have been subordinated to the symbol of St. Jacques, creamed and baked potatoes, bits of architectural flouncing and the logo of a gasoline company.

"Clockwatchers" observes this world through the eyes of Iris (Toni Collette), a shy newcomer to Global Credit who, during her first day on the job, is befriended by the flouncing, rebellious Margaret (Parker Posey), a peripatetic temp who has thought up a hundred little ways to sabotage the companies she works for.

He's a prig, a bit of a dandy; he's also hopelessly in love with a woman named Kitty, with whom he is constantly arguing on the phone and who, when she finally makes an entrance in the second act proves to be a flouncing, busty blockhead, and as played by Kathleen Kaefer, a very funny one.

Then she flounced off to take his order to the kitchen.

She flounces into the living room and holds open the door.

Just then the door opened and Mary flounced back in.

She flounced away from him, past Katherine and out of the room.

The door was flung open and her mother flounced into the room.

With that she tossed her head and flounced out of the room.

She has perhaps flounced a bit, or maybe it's the reporting.

But before he could rise, she'd flounced from her seat.

She flounced out of the room and he stared after her in surprise.

The girl glared a moment longer then flounced from sight.

She spun away as he laughed at her, then flounced toward the road.

Throwing the covers off, she flounced out of the bed.

She flounced out of the little shop, hoping he'd follow her.

Finding that they were, she flounced across the room and sat down at her sewing table.

I was still sitting there as she flounced inside her trailer and closed the door.

She flounced off through the orchard, calling to the older ones.

She gathered herself together, then flounced toward the kitchen, as if offended.

New Labour is already getting the knives out or flouncing around.

June flounced out, her red skirt flashing around the door.

"Fine," she said, and flounced back into the dressing room.

"Or, if he does get cracked up again, I hope they send him to some other hospital," and she flounced out.

She tossed me a glare over her shoulder, then flounced away.

She'd flounced back into the corridor and the door had clicked shut behind her.

She flounced into the house, and he stood looking at her, like a man who has lost everything he most wanted.

Nose in the air, she started to flounce out.

She left the room with what could only be described as a flounce.

She backed through the door, then turned away with a flounce.

She often went that way and in return had only to lift up her flounces.

She got through without even catching the lace on her flounces.

If she wears a low dress and flounces, people say she's fast.

And then she'd trip over a flounce or something.

And the baby under her skirt's flounce had been doing some vigorous exercise.

The sleeves were plain and the skirt had only one flounce.

I have changed my mind,' Luce said, with more than a hint of a flounce in his voice.

"Okay, fine," she said, turning away with a little flounce.

The farmer's daughter, who brought out the wine, was a lively girl with a flounce to her walk.

There was a silly-looking red and white flounce on the dressing table.

The first skirts with a flare and flounces were introduced.

All the Inspector can see are the flounces on the bottom of her long dark skirt next to the child's legs.

A lady had the flounce of her dress torn off; a man lost his hat.

These had been stored in a secret drawer under the flounce at the foot of the bed.

Was that an aristocratic flounce as he went off?

That dark-green one is so pretty and it was sweet of you to put on the flounce.

I shall have such a comfortable feeling deep down in my mind about that flounce."

She left with an angry glance and a flounce.

Needless to say, Ruth added her own flounces and indignation.

But now she was stiff with gold; you could only see the red of her dress when the flounces stirred.

The broad orange curtain, with generous flounces, appears ready to open.

Another flounce, this time making sure he saw.