showmanship

Houston furniture store owner Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale is known for his showmanship, even airing television commercials in which he’s actually wearing a mattress to draw attention to his stores.
Texas is frozen and in crisis. A furniture store owner has emerged as a hero — again.|Cathy Free|February 18, 2021|Washington Post
Goertzel’s particular brand of showmanship has caused many serious AI researchers to distance themselves from his end of the spectrum.
Artificial general intelligence: Are we close, and does it even make sense to try?|Will Heaven|October 15, 2020|MIT Technology Review
They have always included showmanship and sharp exchanges, but within the boundaries of what people expect of their presidents.
Election live updates: Debate commission says it will change structure to ensure more ‘orderly discussion’|John Wagner, Felicia Sonmez, Amy B Wang|September 30, 2020|Washington Post
Many critics have disdain precisely for this strange messiness of his, this showmanship that dares to create a new order.
Frank Gehry Is Architecture’s Mad Genius|Sarah Moroz|October 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Get pumped for on-point vocals, mind-blowing showmanship, and lots and lots of surfboardts.
The Top 10 Summer Concert Tours|The Daily Beast|June 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
You would never know that Larson was infamous in evangelical circles for his bombastic showmanship by talking to him.
My $295 Skype Exorcism|Scott Bixby|February 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Mr. Showmanship, grew up in Milwaukee and started playing classical piano at age 4.
A Millennial’s Guide to Liberace|Sean Macaulay|May 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And so we can think back to boxing, the showmanship of it, the charged arrival of the man in the silk robe.
Oscar De La Hoya: What May Be Behind Cross-Dressing Rumors|Casey Schwartz|November 11, 2011|DAILY BEAST
The theatre managers concerned state most definitely that nothing more than genuine showmanship is behind this.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents|Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.
Good showmanship consists of the ability to anticipate the verdict of the playgoing public.
The Art of Stage Dancing|Ned Wayburn
Good showmanship in dancing consists also in being able to "sell" one's own personality in a dance.
The Art of Stage Dancing|Ned Wayburn
His method would be cunning and crafty, and it would be done with a lot of showmanship.
A Yankee Flier Over Berlin|Al Avery
That is being a successful showman, and he who does this exhibits real showmanship.
The Art of Stage Dancing|Ned Wayburn

Origin of showmanship