Sentence examples for great shows of from inspiring English sources

Members of the Soviet militia made great shows of wrecking stills and hauling away bootleggers.

Brian's Lear-like pofitioning of Ruairi is going to be one of the great shows of the future".

James was not one for great shows of emotion, Grigg says, but he was "terribly proud" of what they were doing.

In the years after 9/11, Musharraf often made great shows of going after militants inside Pakistan, while at the same time supporting and protecting them.

But both take their work to the limit with a radicalism that we have not seen in France since the great shows of Thierry Mugler and Claude Montana.

Pandering to what they expected to be an increasingly upscale audience, the parks — particularly the rather pretentious Dreamland — made great shows of trying to edify their clientele, including pious "trips" to heaven and hell.

There is no great show of giving.

The novel, for instance, makes a great show of experimentalism.

"It wasn't some great show of inner strength.

I thought it offered a great show of culture".

For the rest of the day he made a great show of Visine use.