Sentence examples for rather showy from inspiring English sources
There is something vulnerable about her, and also something rather showy.
I also thought it was all rather showy, compared with other writers' reticence in the face of evil.
He was always crying these days, and it seemed rather showy to Titania, who thought she suffered more deeply in her silence than he did in his sobs.
With Olivier playing the part in a rather showy fashion, the balance never does come quite right, but Fontaine's wimpishness is so unrelieved that eventually the dynamic rights itself.
They were downplayed and chic rather than showy and unrealistic.
In Kent, though, Gough will be championing careful urban planning rather than showy icons.
Nora's brilliance, properly set in its context, is illuminating rather than showy.
As a harpsichordist and organist, Mr. Leonhardt pursued a straightforward style in which ornamentation was judicious rather than showy.
The Amish element immediately registered: all those plain-looking jackets and coats closed with hook and eyes rather than showy buttons.
The oldest cottage on Penrice Castle estate, it's snug rather than showy, with pretty kitchen tiles, Welsh tapestry blankets and a downstairs bathroom.
And modern stained glass is amply precedented in the area: there are rather archly showy examples by Augusto Giacometti, a nephew of Alberto, in the Grossmünster, and by Marc Chagall, in the Fraumünster, a nearby church.
