How To Use showiness In A Sentence
- Perhaps this is not surprising, given the elaborate showiness of his clothes. Times, Sunday Times
- A reticent leader, he acted by means of political machinations and diplomacy and never developed the showiness that had been so typical of his father.
- What they lack in showiness, they more than make up for with the subtler wiles of scent. Times, Sunday Times
- Combined with sundeck, swimming pool and sprung sitting room flooring for dancing, these touches might have pushed opulence towards showiness.
- In the have and have-not society of golden-age Athens, wallowing in luxury and public ostentation became a pivot for societal change, as the statesman Pericles suggested such showiness was ultimately not worthy of the Greeks, and altogether more a Persian way of carrying on. TV highlights 27/06/2011
- Combined with sundeck, swimming pool and sprung sitting room flooring for dancing, these touches might have pushed opulence towards showiness.
- Banks, but without the showiness that sometimes mars Banks' fiction for me. Archive 2010-02-01
- But it was his lack of showiness in terms of commitment to sending out ‘honest’ teams, and being straight to players' faces that counted against him in the English top flight.
- It's about wearing expensive clothes insouciantly, or cheap clothes with outrageous attitude, part stealth luxe, part understated showiness. Times, Sunday Times
- Maybe he should have gone on with that kind of showiness, as if to insist that he, too, is a genius. Rabbit Undone