flourish

Object

• today: In spite of Newport being razed to the ground by the French in 1377, the town flourishes today.

Preposition: at

• expense: This type of discipline will help make sure the web development team does not implement esthetic flourish at the expense of practical function.

Adjective modifier

• rhetorical: The codified criteria of originality ( after Young ) is no long-standing tradition and the characterisation of use as theft is persuasive rhetorical flourish.
• stylistic: Evans does write plainly and clearly, and avoids metaphors, wit or stylistic flourishes with fair assiduity.
• visual: It lacks the glacial pacing of the former and the visual flourishes of the latter, but at least displays a sense of humor.
• final: A glitch in the sustained tone before the final flourish gives it away.

Adjective complement

• unchecked: A third theme that emerges strongly is the irresponsibility of the industry in allowing poor working conditions to flourish unchecked.

Modifying Another Word

• briefly: History is filled with cities that rose and flourished briefly, attached to one great industrial advance and then faced decline.
• independently: The magazine ceased publication in 1998 but the website continued to flourish independently.
• once: This serves as a reminder that Bromley once flourished on the wool trade.
• still: In times like these can ' the love of cinema ' still flourish?

Used with why or when

• when: The company flourished even when her husband had strong doubts about the success of the business.
• where: This is done, so that new ideas can flourish where common problems are being viewed from a variety of perspectives.

Preposition: in

• spite: Hitler was the product of a policy of repression and sanctions and flourished in spite of it.
• climate: Species Roses can be found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, as they flourish in temperate climates.
• soil: Love is an exotic; it is not a plant which will flourish naturally in human soil, it must be watered from above.
• era: The shop signs proclaim the trades that flourished in bygone eras.
• century: The hand-wrought rail trade flourished in the early 16th century, and the manufacture of glass and bricks began in the early 17th century.