showy
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The back-to-back best director Oscar winner of “Birdman” and “The Revenant” has always loved a showy gimmick, but here he puts his influences on bold display.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
This year the clamor is louder, more aggressive, and tinged with showy economic threats.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026
Obviously, it got more aggressive and became more of a huge, showy, crazy, overstimulating thing as it, as it moved its way over to the States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026
Tahini has a kind of quiet luxury to it — less sweet than nut butters, less showy, with a soft, earthy depth that can tip, just slightly, into bitterness in a way that feels intentional.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026
Vonetta, who is loud and showy, showy and crowy, had to swallow her words.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
Brecken Branstrator, the editor-in-chief of GemGuide, a gem-price data platform, said the “quiet luxury” trend may be giving way to showier offerings.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Yes: Alcaraz is the faster, showier player, capable of mad sprints to pull out improbable winners, but Sinner’s developed real range.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2025
I first tuned into “Vanderpump Rules” for its addictive schadenfreude: you delighted in seeing the mistakes of your youth play out among a new generation, except in showier locales.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
What appealed to you about playing Ray who is rather passive, rather than say, the showier role of Skip?
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2024
He might have harvested quicker and showier results here, but he wanted to be identified with his own people.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
The biggest music stars and the showiest productions are enjoying broad popularity right now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
He stepped into passing lanes on back-to-back plays in the fourth quarter for breakaway highlight dunks, the showiest moments of another efficient 14-for-21 shooting night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
Still to see: Oscar favorites Sean Penn and Bradley Cooper have supporting roles in “Licorice Pizza,” and Cooper’s may be the showiest, based on the trailer.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2021
The showiest destination of all is table 56, a dome-shaped tapestried booth.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2020
Everyone, meanwhile, appears to be blending into a classless crowd, shedding the showiest kinds of high-status clothes in favor of a jeans-and-sweatsuit informality.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
