Sentence examples for showy display from inspiring English sources

"A showy display of big dresses and bad hair".

Mr. Carmichael's breathless, bravura monologue late in the second act, is a fine, showy display.

All three surgeons decline to operate in a showy display of professional ethics that is commendable and not the least bit persuasive.

A spartan in his dress and daily habits, he disliked showy display on and off the stage and was historically unpleasant at the kind of obligatory social gatherings and dinners required of cultural leaders.

Having a bookcase full of snakes might not be a seduction tactic, but there is certainly an element of showy display, and of self-assertion, involved in keeping unusual creatures.

The DEA first moved into Bolivia in a major way in 1986, when it staged the showy display that radicalizad many coca farmers; this was Operation Blast Furnace, in which Bolivian and United States troops parachuted into jugle laboratories and torched them in view of dozens of photographers and many more local residents.

Security officials were fired in showy displays of accountability, but the problems ran deeper.

Proud, independent-minded, not given to showy displays of driving prowess, fond of small cars (obviously).

Landscapes embody eros, of course, with their come-now showy displays of "overgrown berry" and "pliant pine".

Why, then, do Mr. Gore's showy displays of erudition provoke in me a tremor of alarm?

Add one husband and one paramour, the first a prominent plastic surgeon (Dr. Baker) and the second a sugar baron (Mr. Fanjul) known for his showy displays of wealth and for his devoted wife.