Sentence examples for Mere showmanship from inspiring English sources

Mere showmanship could lull us into believing the fiction that those values have been realized.

While some of his later work was criticized as being mere showmanship, he was admired by bebop drummers as well as by early jazz performers and audiences.

Mr. Hamelin finds the word "virtuoso," which is invariably applied to his playing, a somewhat derogatory descriptive that implies mere showmanship, he said during a recent interview in a practice room at Mannes.

These tensions and elaborations, these interplays of forces and allusions, should make it hard to dismiss his work as mere leaky showmanship.

Macri has dismissed these unprecedented human rights achievements as mere political showmanship.

Two themes stand out in Mr. Robinson's maze of U.R.L.'s: His homage to the great performers, and his emphasis on showmanship instead of mere illusion.

Maybe that's what Jeff Wilpon's three-paragraph statement was about, mere mimicry, a Steinbrennerian act of calculated showmanship.

But, showmanship.

Showmanship was barely involved.

It was showmanship.

So much for showmanship.