Example sentences for: showmanship

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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."

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

  • 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.


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