Example Sentences

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The movie offers no musical shout, thrash, or outburst that isn’t anchored in popular styles and easily ascribed to showmanly exuberance.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 25, 2016

For sheer sensation, the serpentine horror painted by the showmanly Spaniard easily ran away with the honors at a Manhattan exhibition of 24 health posters, intended for postwar Europe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dancing Pirate's color is still bright and raw but far better suited to songs and dances than the less showmanly shades of nature.

From Time Magazine Archive

If Mr. President is saddening proof of how old pros can fail, it also points up a danger to which seasoned theater hands are prone, that of substituting showmanly expertise for solid substance.

From Time Magazine Archive

The barge has been christened Point Counterpoint, and its showmanly musical skipper is Massachusetts-born, Juilliard-educated Robert Austin Boudreau, 36.

From Time Magazine Archive