Sentence examples for bit of showing from inspiring English sources

Perhaps, then, they can be allowed to do a bit of showing off.

But when heroism is thrust upon him, as it is in BLACK SWAN (Permanent Press, $28), Sam is entitled to a bit of showing off.

This admittedly extreme example reveals another feature of the book: a propensity to bully the reader through sheer weight of information and opinion, which includes a tidy bit of showing off.

And there's a lot of name-dropping – they played with Chuck, or Hank, or Billy – and a bit of showing off, about how much they know and how important it all is.

Skeptics are more likely to think that North Korea has nuclear blackmail in mind, and that what the White House really is doing is an election-year bit of showing its determination, even as it moves toward negotiating with Pyongyang.

"Visitors were regularly invited to climb to the top where they could see the world laid out in miniature in the king's back garden, and his kingdom stretching away into the distance outside the walls – it was a spectacular bit of showing off".

De Zeeuw drives a shot wide after an ostentatious bit of show-boating from Van Persie.

"But this is the strangest bit of show business to come along in a long time".

There is always time to prove that you are outstanding, there is still time for a little bit of show.

A bit of show-business disaster surrounded the subdued music of a new quartet led by the alto saxophonist Lee Konitz on Tuesday night at Iridium.

The hollowed-out bread, which in other contexts might seem a silly bit of show business, is functional, since it soaks up and mellows the sauce.