show to advantage

Idioms  

1. Also,. Display in a flattering way, benefit, as in This lighting shows the paintings to advantage, or Your extensive use of quotations shows your learning to good advantage. [Mid-1300s]

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Example Sentences

On this occasion, however, it unluckily did not show to advantage.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2011

If he does not show to advantage in a new role he may shelve it for a while, as he seems to be doing with Manrico in Il Trovatore.

From Time Magazine Archive

Does not Southey show to advantage here? yet the voice of the world proclaims Milton pre-eminently a poet; and no one can affect a doubt of the delicacy and exactness of his ear.

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry

Thunderer did not show to advantage at any stage of the race, but he finally managed to beat his stablemate, he finishing fifth, and Dominant seventh.

From History of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1921 by O'Connor, John Lawrence

His profound scholarship, penetrating judgment, nervous though severe style, and critical acumen, all show to advantage in the History.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh