| The International Economic Forum held here on June 7th and 8th was more than just a vanity fair of show-offs and lavish parties. |
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| But it is still just a game show for show-offs, albeit an extremely funny one. |
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| Maybe it is difficult to imagine these guys as nice chaps when your machismo immediately assumes they'll be natural born show-offs. |
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| The neighbourhood show-offs decide to have a bonfire party in every street on every night. |
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| It's the way we're brought up, in a culture that prizes modesty and adores putting show-offs in their place. |
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| Potential contestants have to be extrovert without being annoying, pushy show-offs. |
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| What else one could have asked for, at a time when such shows had become more show-offs than unearthing the talent of the kids. |
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| They seem to be natural born show-offs who've got lots of face and front, but often no talent. |
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| A certain group of executive show-offs are beginning to smoke cigars outside in a little alcove all of their own. |
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| When you pray, don't be like those show-offs who love to stand up and pray in the meeting places and on the street corners. |
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| A lot of comedians are insecure show-offs, and not particularly funny. |
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| Irwin also remarked on a gallery practice that has occasionally allowed show-offs to pretend they own something that they have no intention of paying for. |
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| Let's show the world that we can be lucid and enthusiastic explainers of recondite ideas, not merely the flamboyant show-offs that unfair stereotypes so often paint us to be. |
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| A commendable campaign against an ill-considered planning decision seems to have been hijacked by a bunch of tree-hugging show-offs with a childish obsession with fancy dress. |
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| As it turns out, Jamie's friends don't head for the nearest chippy when they hear that they are to be on telly, for they are all big fat show-offs. |
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| Cannas are one of the garden's biggest show-offs so take care of them as the first frosts creep in and the rewards will be immense. |
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| Next in the hate list were show-offs, followed by those who listen to loud music with windows open. |
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| Ye Gods, if you're glued to the screen in the hope of seeing two show-offs bonking under a duvet, your life must be duller than ditchwater. |
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| From spicy arrestees on COPS to Tom Cruise, the low-tech binge of singled-out talking heads and show-offs overwhelms, producing simultaneous exhilaration and unease. |
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| Spectacular slam-dunks, unbelievable finger spins and over the shoulder shots were aplenty in an epic showing from the basketball world''s greatest show-offs. |
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