Sentence examples for of the showmanship from inspiring English sources

Mercer's role as front man feels more like maintenance than performance, and most of the showmanship came from the new guitarist, Jessica Dobson.

Anthony Kiedis, the band's lead singer, took care of the showmanship: he bounded onstage like a prizefighter and didn't let up for the duration of the concert.

I think that if there was perhaps more of the showmanship for the balsa jousters and more display for the solid jousters, then we just might find a sport that strikes a chord in the hearts of the modern audience.

Some of the showmanship is less successful: the monkfish, which arrives shaped like a sushi roll and wrapped in bacon, is a little too firm for the arrangement, and doesn't cut pleasingly.

With "New Era," Aitken finds a sweet spot between rumination and spectacle, while steering clear of the showmanship that has left some of his recent projects feeling a little too slick.

Dressed in a white shirt and black pants with his hair neatly trimmed, Mr. Bo displayed some of the showmanship he deployed in climbing to the party chief post in Chongqing municipality and the elite Politburo, before he was felled last year by a scandal involving the death of a British businessman, a case in which his wife, Gu Kailai, was convicted of murder.

"There is massive buying on the secondary market by venture guys just for the showmanship of it," he said.

Amateur wrestling has little or no theatrics or drama, in comparison to the showmanship of pro-wrestling.

But as a result of all the showmanship, there's barely a moment when we feel real tension – still less, feel as trapped or as panicked as Ralston.

Dr. John C. Lilly, a neuroscientist and writer who explored human consciousness, dolphin communication and the borders of reality with the showmanship of P. T. Barnum and the infectious zeal of Jacques Yves-Cousteau, died on Sept. 30 in Los Angeles.

A lot of lawyers like the showmanship and argument of the courtroom (or preparation for it--few cases actually go to trial).