Combined with sundeck, swimming pool and sprung sitting room flooring for dancing, these touches might have pushed opulence towards showiness. |
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Hence, the 19th-century term copperplate hand usually connotes calligraphic showiness and sleekness. |
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Consumers in China are turning from monogrammed showiness to subtler elegance. |
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No unnecessary showiness, but above all no compromise on quality and truly unrivalled performance. |
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Rarity and curiousness are more at a premium in the plants-woman's garden than showiness. |
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A reticent leader, he acted by means of political machinations and diplomacy and never developed the showiness that had been so typical of his father. |
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When we worship in the spirit, we are opposed to religious rituals and ceremonial posturing, and to the showiness of the symbols of office, and external worship. |
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As a farmhouse, their home was built with dignity rather than showiness in mind, and the pared-down, Spartan quality of the couple's mid-20th-century and contemporary furniture echoes that. |
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Verdi's new work incorporated many aspects of grand French opera, the most important of which was a predisposition for showiness, as heightened by dances and by the famous scene of triumph. |
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To try to distinguish effects of showiness from mimicking scary eyes, Mappes and her colleagues developed tests based on computers and mealworms. |
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