Example sentences for: showmanship

How can you use “showmanship” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But I do worry that the Barro offer sends the wrong signals to younger economists--that by telling them the profession still insists on the appearance of superstardom, that it only values home runs when we really ought to be looking for a solid series of base hits, it will encourage what is already a disturbing propensity to favor attention-grabbing showmanship at the expense of deeper, more time-consuming work.

  • West cultivates a distinctively black mode of academic discourse, improvisational in tone and containing a stronger element of showmanship and braggadocio than most of his white colleagues are comfortable with.

  • It is half-facetious showmanship.

  • But even those who pan the novel continue to celebrate his "caffeinated prose, his bravura showmanship [and his] ...

  • Barnum, whose wit was equal to his showmanship, summoned the fellow to him and said, “I beg you to reconsider.


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