Example sentences for: showmanship

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

  • For these writers, literature is a grand chess game of mental possibilities, an irresistible occasion for philosophical showmanship.

  • Where other filmmakers have tried to assert that showmanship somehow precludes belief, Duvall demonstrates how showmanship and belief can reinforce and even galvanize each other, the former driving the latter to transcendental heights.

  • "Woo's wildly inappropriate gravity has the effect of dulling his natural showmanship."

  • This week several critics dub it the Great American Musical, including The New Yorker 's John Lahr, who pronounces it "a theatrical watershed: an awesome pyrotechnical display of theatrical craft and showmanship."

  • 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.


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