show to advantage
Example Sentences
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On this occasion, however, it unluckily did not show to advantage.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2011
If he does not show to advantage in a new role he may shelve it for a while, as he seems to be doing with Manrico in Il Trovatore.
From Time Magazine Archive
A coward every inch of him, he certainly did not show to advantage with an escort of constables about him.
From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos
Does not Southey show to advantage here? yet the voice of the world proclaims Milton pre-eminently a poet; and no one can affect a doubt of the delicacy and exactness of his ear.
From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman
Neither did Nancy's old Shaker bonnet show to advantage beside Flora's hat, with its beautiful bows and streamers; but Nancy was not troubled about that.
From Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
