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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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


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