showmanship
Origin of showmanship
Related Words for showmanship
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Contemporary Examples of showmanship
Many critics have disdain precisely for this strange messiness of his, this showmanship that dares to create a new order.
And so we can think back to boxing, the showmanship of it, the charged arrival of the man in the silk robe.
Or, as former senator Rick Santorum put it, “showmanship, not leadership.”
Gordon: I felt like it was a kind of showmanship and this highly intellectual meta-fictional move.
Historical Examples of showmanship
Much information about showmanship is given in our makeup classes.
The Art of Stage DancingNed Wayburn
His anger struggled with his pleasure at Hugo's showmanship.
GladiatorPhilip Wylie
As for the rest of the trick, the effect is produced entirely by showmanship.
Water WizardryArthur Ainslie
As for Fanny's method; here is a typical example of her somewhat crude effectiveness in showmanship.
Fanny HerselfEdna Ferber
In doing this you make use of an excellent little piece of showmanship; you pretend to be very nervous.
Water WizardryArthur Ainslie