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Example sentences for: showy

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Today it is a commercial street boasting the showy glass tower of the Stock Exchange Building (53 Exchange Place), which features a monumental marble staircase in the foyer.
The word was originally a theatrical term for a showy trick or patch of high-flown, grandiose language that actors would use to attract (`trap') applause (`claps') from their audiences.
The couple staged a more casual wedding than Edward's brothers did, dispensing with superformal dress, showy titles, and a postnuptial smooch.
Do not expect subdued taste and restraint" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). A few feel that Anderson doesn't pull it off: Magnolia , a "big, showy flower of a movie, unfurls brilliantly, each plot petal a thing of exquisite design.
This sprawling compound of courtyards and showy 19th-century pavilions is decorated in a pantheon of finely carved friezes, gates, and gold-leaf tableaux depicting scenes of Chinese myth and romance.