Flaneurs

This one-day taster includes a photography workshop, a symposium by the Walking Artists Network, and the chance to hit the streets as an elastic-bound group of slow-moving flaneurs. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Some evenings will be devoted to three short half-hour performances, each costing $2.50, targeted at the flaneurs in flip-flops and club-hopping tourists who swarm Lincoln Road in the evening. ❋ Philip Kennicott (2011)

But it also helps to be looking through the proper lens—to notice, for instance, that those would-be flaneurs outside trendy Bar del Fico Piazza del Fico, 26; www.bardelfico.it , their heads turning in unison every time a pretty girl walks by, are straight out of "I Vitelloni," the director's pivotal portrait of frustrated, provincial 20-something men. ❋ Lee Marshall (2011)

For the flaneurs planning to take the tour, Gowalla, the travel-oriented app for smartphones, will help create a custom "Hypothetical Development Trip" for the project. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is this impulse that convinces avid porn watchers that they are really erotic sociologists; that teaches peeping toms to fancy themselves flaneurs; and prompts liars to perceive that they are merely gifted enough to see the world as it should be. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"They're flaneurs," he said, using Baudelaire's derivative of the French word meaning "to stroll." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hallucinating California is a collection of urban vignettes by two psychodelibilly flaneurs Wharf-Ratting around the 415 and the 916. ❋ EILEEN (2009)

Casual list flaneurs and number-crunching obsessives alike can wander in via the most recently announced individual lists - the Black Reel Awards, awards from circles in the Southeast, Las Vegas, San Diego, DFW, Phoenix or Chicago - or head straight for the charts, where MCN's already done the math for you: the Awards Scoreboard and the Top Tens. ❋ Unknown (2006)

We ate fancy food and wine and wandered about being flaneurs. ❋ Yuki_onna (2008)

And Sir and Madam instead of being dawdling flaneurs with the Cordains you could be working on your fasting-opus..thats the essay not the act thereof ! ❋ Unknown (2006)

When, therefore, William Trevor wrote 'Two More Gallants,' published in his collection The News from Ireland in 1986 and set largely in the mid-1950s, in which the same serving maid supposedly tells the story to another pair of Dublin flaneurs, a reader might expect that the purpose of the exercise would be to measure the distance between Joyce's Ireland and Trevor's. ❋ O'Toole, Fintan (2005)

It is in conveying atmosphere that Kawabata, like so many Japanese literary flaneurs, excels. ❋ Buruma, Ian (2005)

Byrons and Brookes who had defied life from mountain tops were in the end but flaneurs and poseurs, at best mistaking the shadow of courage for the substance of wisdom. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Throughout the winter, we take with good humour the flippant comments of _flaneurs_ and over-fastidious friends, touching the bestowal of our patronage upon such an ill-favoured cur, while we thought ourselves the objects of his gratitude and affection; but Frate's character (we gave him this name from the length of his beard, the colour of his coat, and because he had lived upon alms) did not improve upon acquaintance. ❋ Various (N/A)

The Byrons and Brookes who had defied life from mountain tops were in the end but flaneurs and poseurs, at best mistaking the shadow of courage for the substance of wisdom. ❋ Unknown (1920)

The river steamers had stopped running, and there were crowds of flaneurs loitering on the quais and bridges wondering if the cold would last long enough for the river to be quite frozen over. ❋ Waddington, Mary King (1914)