But he has gallantly given the flashiest parts, and the best lines, to two women who know exactly what to do with them.

Ms. Kofoed, in the flashiest and most exaggerated part, does convey the ravenous neediness at her character's center.

Although the role is a supporting one, Mr. Selleck said: "It's a flashy part.

Well, I think anybody who gives this a try will roar along with it, and not just its flashier parts, though those set pieces are first-water bamboozles, certainly.

The flashier part is Mr. Hamilton's.

And it is not as if Ms. Argerich held back on the flashy parts.

His ensemble quickly gets through the songs' meditative preludes and on to the flashy parts, building and building to spectacular displays.

That was because a young actor named John Malkovich, poised for international stardom, took a flashy part and ran with it at warp speed.

Grace Park, who plays Sharon, didn't notice the miniseries' gasp-inducing twist when she first auditioned for the flashier part of Starbuck.

The flashy part of the Schneebaum story is that he lived among cannibals and once tried human flesh himself.