presentational

Example Sentences

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I find that playwrights are often at their liveliest when writing in a presentational mood.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

In the absence of any real developments, attention in Ukraine turned to the presentational aspects of the summit – the "optics", in political speak.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2025

In 2020, longtime military graphics collector Tim Hwang launched a Twitter account, @DefenseCharts, a feed “dedicated to the presentational aesthetics of the defense-industrial complex.”

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2023

One of the many wonderful aspects of “Secret Things” is how its eight dancers, mostly from the corps de ballet, emerge as distinctive personalities without being presentational.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2023

The films all home in on this distinction between a presentational online persona and the actual self.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2022