His disciplined presentation combined elements of Hugh Jackman, Harry Connick Jr., Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake, but without flamboyant showmanship or emotional display.
Hiorns works very differently to the YBA generation: more intellectual, without antics or showmanship.
His greatness did without Olivier's showmanship, Ralph Richardson's abandoned cussedness or Gielgud's resonant lyricism.
Exploring the dramatic world of illusion and ambition of two magicians locked in a deadly rivalry, Christopher Nolan's film was an opportunity for Jackman to show that he could do showmanship without enormous extendable metal claws.
But I did wonder, in the interval, whether he might be overdoing the angry advocacy a touch – as if he feared that without full-volume showmanship, the play might not work up the necessary head of steam.
I found it highly entertaining but without the edgy showmanship of the theatrical divertissements of Penn & Teller.
A 17-year Apple veteran, Schiller is in charge of making Apple's marketing magical, and must continue to do so even without Jobs' master showmanship and charisma to woo the world.
It shows that museums can reinvent themselves without stooping to cheap showmanship, can make their collections accessible without patronising the people who see them.
According to Robert Darnton, a Princeton historian, Berlin's friends would "watch him as if he were a trapeze artist, soaring through every imaginable subject, spinning, flipping, hanging by his heels and without a touch of showmanship".
