showiness
IPA: ʃˈoʊinʌs
noun
- The property of being showy.
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Examples of "showiness" in Sentences
- Banks, but without the showiness that sometimes mars Banks' fiction for me.
- "There is a terrible distaste in France for that kind of showiness," says Poirier.
- Maybe he should have gone on with that kind of showiness, as if to insist that he, too, is a genius.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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