How To Use Showstopper In A Sentence
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Kartano dresses old Finnish staple dishes in haute cuisine trimmings and their pan-fried fillet of reindeer is a showstopper.
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The weather wasn't perfect, but I quickly was learning that what had been a showstopper in the RAG was daily business in the fleet.
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The last definition is the showstopper for unions.
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Boubil and Schonberg created a score with countless showstoppers linked with recitative that is melodious and easily understood.
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According to Pawelczyk, associate professor of kinesiology at Penn State, there are three major "showstoppers" that need to be addressed.
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At first, cost seemed a showstopper.
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Their recurved petals, lovely long stamens and distinctive center markings make Oriental lilies showstoppers in any floral arrangement.
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The showstopper, a nearly 8-foot nude self-portrait, is overlaid with a sparse array of embossed, lozenge-shaped leaves impressed from both the front and back of the paper.
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So if you're after a real showstopper, this is the look for you.
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Handelian arias were either brilliant vocal displays or sustained sublime showstoppers.
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The conclusion of the review is that there are no potential "showstoppers" at this stage of the development plan.
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Following are simple professional tips from the Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center in New York City on how to turn any lily flower arrangement into a showstopper.
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The signature bake is filled iced buns and the showstopper involves classic British cakes.
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However, Smith's one-woman Sound of Music medley was a showstopper, inspiring even my cynical self to join in lustily!
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Andrea James: The most swingin 'aquatic showstopper in cinema history.
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That was a great, showstopper performance.
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It's a classic showstopper: dramatic, lavishly orchestrated, and catastrophically over-the-top.
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But the showstopper is the aptly named globe of death, which sees men riding motorbikes inside a dome-like structure.
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Much like the original, the showstopper is the group zombie dance segment, but I gotta say, damn if a bunch of plastic bricks don’t make for a better actress than Ola Ray, too.
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The stage is then invaded by more children and the resulting musical number is a showstopper.
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Reworking Billy Idol's Dancing With Myself as a ratpack-style showstopper is a brilliant idea, the atmosphere of musical sophistication undercut by the fact that the song is about - and there's no polite way to put this - having a wank.
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I ran into a number of difficulties, but none of them were showstoppers.
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The redevelopment will comprise 32 apartments, ranging in price from £250,000 to the £1.25m showstopper.
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When the beta testers can't find any more showstoppers or the developers can no longer face fixing them or the marketing team has booked loads of advertising, the developers create "release candidates".
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The bad news is there's a bug, described as a showstopper.
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His concerts remained vibrant, pulsating showstoppers, rock as it was meant to be.
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The showstopper was the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
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The initial excitement quickly turned to sensational headlines about a "showstopper" or critical bug that may put a damper on the Windows 7 excitement.
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the brilliant orange flowers against the green foliage were a showstopper
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The statue has become a showstopper for hordes of shoppers.
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Aguilar also found differences between the way the two countries conduct business, but no showstoppers.
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Her natural creativity and artistic talent make her home a real showstopper.
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In the winter though - when its structure and the almost knurled twisting of its branches are more evident - the bur oak is a showstopper.
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It’s not often that the encore is truly a showstopper above and beyond the preceding program’s actual content, but it was here.
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Aside from the searing guitar riffs and angry-youth lyrics, there was not a particularly special moment or showstopper, as it were.
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For sheer showstopper appeal, check out its exclusive hat collection by milliner to the stars Philip Treacy in the Autograph boutique, with prices from £125.
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The challenges that remain are considered engineering tasks, not showstoppers.
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There aren't any showstoppers but there are lots of minor UI irritations.
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That's right, in a medium where male full-frontal nudity is hardly a showstopper any more.
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The term stable refers to a version of software that is substantially identical to a version that has been through enough real-world testing to reasonably assume there are no showstopper problems, or at least that any problems are known and documented.
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And that's before the delicate tuile biscuit challenge and the slightly ridiculous showstopper - a biscuit tower.
The Sun
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Kevin Rudd is offering premiers an extra $1.2 billion to win support for his health plan but it remains contingent on a potential "showstopper" - handing over 30 per cent of their GST.
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The showstopper was the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
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‘And The Hero Will Drown,’ ‘Burning Years’ and of course, ‘Anthem Of Our Dying Day’ are showstoppers.
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And for the final showstopper they have to make 49 bakes in five hours with only one oven each.
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Formal evening gowns are elegant and can be showstoppers.
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There'll be wearing on parts of machinery, combat equipment and helicopters, but it will not be a showstopper.
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The accumulation of brilliant hues in simple but densely repeated geometric patterns made her entry a showstopper.
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And, for the showstopper, the bakers must make a perfect charlotte russe, otherwise known as an 'ice-box cake'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over the years I had seen plants that were showstoppers; plants that made you examine them thoroughly; plants that made you find a book and read everything you could about them.
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Yet the showstopper is the most eccentric look: Mona Bismarck 's aqua green Balenciaga gown with sleeves of blooming pink petals from 1968.
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So when a country with no tradition of musicals found itself needing chorus lines and showstoppers, Lambe was one of a new breed of stage performers capable of answering its call.
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If, despite a low or nonexistent overhead, decent profits still manage to elude a microbusiness, that's not necessarily a showstopper.
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The upmarket style bible put Camilla in its ‘showstoppers’ category of women who know how to dress for a big occasion.
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But the showstopper is the 1,450-square-foot Robert Louis Stevenson Suite, with its front-to-back picture windows on three sides -- the joint has helicopter views from the bathtub.
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Clapton has covered the Johnson songbook throughout his career, most famously in ‘Crossroads’, his barnstorming showstopper when he was in Cream more than 30 years ago.
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The great landscape abstractions from the late '50s and early '60s were the showstoppers in the last of the three large rooms.
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The onion soup is another showstopper, rich and sweet from caramelized onions.
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How many romantic misunderstandings and happy-clappy showstoppers must we endure before longing for the curtain to drop in front of those beaming, ambitious faces?
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The line, a showstopper by any standard, was reinforced with impeccable finish and an eye for detail.
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Her natural creativity and artistic talent make her home a real showstopper.
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And for the final showstopper they have to make 49 bakes in five hours with only one oven each.
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Old double-winged aircraft and Spitfires practice their showstoppers over our valley before annual air shows.
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They have practised the signature and the showstopper bakes, but when they lift that checked cloth and look at the technical challenge, they are in agony.
The Sun
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I am resplendent in scarlet tonight, a showstopper.
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We have now however heard from several other users who assure us this works on their handsets, so it seems not to be a universal showstopper.
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Unless we come up with a new technology for storing hydrogen, it's a showstopper.
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He easily holds his own with Kelly in their numbers together, and his ‘Make 'Em Laugh’ is a showstopper.
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The showstopper was the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her natural creativity and artistic talent make her home a real showstopper.
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None of these cultural differences is in and of itself a showstopper.
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But of course, it's the big jaunty disco showstoppers at which she excels.
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The cake was the real showstopper: two-tiered and dense with chocolate mousse and ganache.
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Then there is the shy, self-effacing Chris, who electrifyingly takes over the stage, and, to my mind, sparks the whole proceedings with the showstopper, Old Fashioned Romance.
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The real showstopper is Nathan Lane's ‘There's No Business Like Show Business.’
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Her natural creativity and artistic talent make her home a real showstopper.
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A real floor-length showstopper we would all love to get our mitts on.
The Sun
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They have practised the signature and the showstopper bakes, but when they lift that checked cloth and look at the technical challenge, they are in agony.
The Sun
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In the main arena, bare-back riding daredevil Lorenzo, the Flying Frenchman, proved to be a showstopper as he performed equestrian stunts with his grey geldings.
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A real floor-length showstopper we would all love to get our mitts on.
The Sun
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So if you're after a real showstopper, this is the look for you.
The Sun
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Blue-flowered ‘Ascotiensis’ is another showstopper, while pristine white ‘John Huxtable’ looks especially striking grown through an evergreen.