How To Use Showiness In A Sentence
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Perhaps this is not surprising, given the elaborate showiness of his clothes.
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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.
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What they lack in showiness, they more than make up for with the subtler wiles of scent.
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Combined with sundeck, swimming pool and sprung sitting room flooring for dancing, these touches might have pushed opulence towards showiness.
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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.
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Combined with sundeck, swimming pool and sprung sitting room flooring for dancing, these touches might have pushed opulence towards showiness.
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Banks, but without the showiness that sometimes mars Banks' fiction for me.
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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.
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It's about wearing expensive clothes insouciantly, or cheap clothes with outrageous attitude, part stealth luxe, part understated showiness.
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Maybe he should have gone on with that kind of showiness, as if to insist that he, too, is a genius.
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His style is crisp and mercifully free of showiness.
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Nekkid girls and boobies alert, distasteful showiness of much skin, and they all wanna fight each other in order to be the Queen of wherever the heck they are.
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When we worship in the spirit, we are opposed to religious rituals and ceremonial posturing, and to the showiness of the symbols of office, and external worship.
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There is a terrible distaste in France for that kind of showiness," says Poirier.
Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy: The long and the short of it
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John Madden's film, from a script by Matthew Vaughn, is lean and to the point, a solid job of moving the action forward and keeping you in the moment without frills or showiness.
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Anyhow, he believes that the showiness of his jewellery was overstated.
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There are the obvious similarities of glitz and showiness, but there are other not-so-obvious mirror images too.
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This allows for a bit of showiness, and actually happens to be the area which does appeal to the various areas of male readership and viewership.
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Not only does Kapper avoid the typical mistakes that betray a first-time feature director-and the showiness which is often the other option for debut-directors of some competence-every sequence is staged with the touch of a veteran: shot composition, lighting, cutting, coverage, scene structure, props that don't feel borrowed from some high school, settings that feel like part of the real world ... real Ohio weather.
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She didn't like showiness or ostentation.
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But to get back to the question of a gay sensibility: cliche has us believe that amongst its ingredients are flamboyance, showiness, excess and extravagance.
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When we worship in the spirit, we are opposed to religious rituals and ceremonial posturing, and to the showiness of the symbols of office, and external worship.
