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
Far from the “wastelands” where these wading birds lived, urban women adorned their hats with showy feathers as marks of status.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 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
Why had he given the showy song to Betty Jean and a strange thin melody to Caroline?
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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
Apple’s riveting prison drama ‘Black Bird’ was much showier and will likely be the miniseries to beat.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023
Maisie associated this showier presence with her now being "big," knowing of course that nursery-governesses were only for little girls who were not, as she said, "really" little.
From What Maisie Knew by James, Henry
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
The showiest creation is duck presented four ways, as spiced sliced breast, broth, fried wing and “pie.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022
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
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
