showy
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This year the clamor is louder, more aggressive, and tinged with showy economic threats.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 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
They succeeded — this musical is an underrated gem — but its Luna’s less showy performance that truly winds up stealing your heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
"He was not showy and maybe that was to the detriment of his legacy but I hope people will start to recognise him a little more than maybe he has been so far."
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026
Pulling back Lenny’s nice curtains makes it pretty clear that the rest of the trailer park is lit up all bright and showy.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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
What appealed to you about playing Ray who is rather passive, rather than say, the showier role of Skip?
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2024
However, Stone has the showier role as Poor Things' charming protagonist Bella Baxter, while Gladstone's dignified and resilient Molly Kyle in Flower Moon is a more understated part that enjoys considerably less screen time.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2024
Spacek has the showier role as the seething, vengeful Ruth, a lobster fisherman’s Lady Macbeth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2023
But you dreamt of a showier part, where you loved and fought.
From Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
The biggest music stars and the showiest productions are enjoying broad popularity right now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
In this sense, Youngelson’s film is not formally spectacular and doesn’t necessarily pack the showiest emotional wallop.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
Naturally, he doesn’t stand a chance against Butler and Fraser, the category’s two showiest contenders; neither, it seems, do Farrell and Nighy, whom I’d rank a close second and third.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
The showiest creation is duck presented four ways, as spiced sliced breast, broth, fried wing and “pie.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022
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
