Nearly everything Poe wrote, including the spooky stories for which he is best remembered, has this virtuosic, showy, lilting, and slightly wilting quality, like a peony just past bloom.
They are virtuosic, showy, inventive and astonishing pieces, qualities captured by Mr. Fellner in fleet, lucid and meticulously executed performances.
"The Dipper's climb to 100 had those same qualities: a gorgeous, showy, overheated, snaking, furious display of overkill and virtuosity". Chamberlain's game mightily defied the idea of quotas, serving as both a jarring and a uniting force in basketball.
These are not showy, but they create a fantastic quality of experience that means people just want to hang out there – that's why they are full all the time.
The growth of the game on the pitch was evident when that showy pass was completely overshadowed by the quality of play that surrounded it.
But the least showy, more reflective roles tested his true qualities best.
Mr. Rapp's previous plays have ranged widely in quality, but arch black humor and showy nihilism have often taken precedence over attention to the rich flux of real experience.
Kandinsky was very showy about it, but Dove had an earthy, simple quality that led directly to abstraction.
There's an idiosyncratic high-pitched quality to her voice, a weird squeakiness and showy inflection, that have led to descriptions of her as "Björk meets Róisín Murphy while possessed by the ghost of Billie Holiday" or even "Portishead meet Piaf".
