Indeed, he parodied this self-importance in his showmanship, his performance, parading around the streets of the Left Bank and holding court in bistros.
She won Westminster's award for best junior showmanship when she was 15, around the same time she took over her father's breeding program with the help of mentor Marilyn Stockland.
Bolt drew the usual crackle of electricity around the stands, posing for the cameras, waving to the crowd, spreading around a little of that wonderfully easy sense of showmanship.
He had a showmanship that I foolishly attempted — and failed — to imitate when I danced around a hotel ballroom upon winning a high school journalism award.
Yet, as he takes stock of his legacy, it is also an occasion for him and his peers to look at the amiable, all-around entertainer that he is and wonder if the sun is setting on that style of showmanship.
As the band surveyed eight years of hits, Mr. Weiland bounded around like a lab animal in a Ritalin trial, his wild movements coalescing into a tribute to rock showmanship.
This all encourages the idea that Manilow's style, the showmanship that veers into schlock — "Copacabana," for example, sung in front of a cartoon of tropical fruit, bananas and pomegranates flying around, dizzying and kaleidoscopic — isn't such a crime against art.
Around baseball, though, Maddon is known as much for his strategic savvy as his showmanship.
