showy

• “Its flowers are used in showy tropical arrangements.”

  Coffee, swamp lily and heliconia: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico

• “Howland kept getting questions during the tournament about how the gritty, slowdown style was playing in showy, glitzy L.A., and how the region's plethora of high-scoring high school stars will receive recruiting calls from the nation's new defensive powerhouse.”

  USATODAY.com - UCLA to key on defense again

• “But plenty were cowboys, too, and upon emerging from the Green Zone they drove in showy clusters of SUVs, nose to tail, cutting off traffic and careening down the streets as if they were taking fire.”

  Welcome to the Green Zone

• “She was neither very brilliant, nor altogether a pretender, but might be described as a showy woman, of slight but popular accomplishments.”

  Autobiographical Sketches

• “Page 446 used to call my showy butler, died an object of disgust and horror, whilst old Jacob, with whose red nightcap you comically threatened the gay dandy -- lived till the other day, and dying, left 800 pounds behind him!”

  The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3

• “Feinmel said Kelley had no regular employment and there was little that could be described as showy about his lifestyle.”

  News for Richmond Times-Dispatch

• “So the Coens and I started talking about Tommy Lee and other people that are fun to listen to, like Bill Clinton, and thought about what it would be like if a person had that kind of showy presentation — but was devoid of substance.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Damon's Ride to the Coens' Best Western

• “No critics have ever hurled the kind of negative thunderbolts at him that a more obviously "showy" pianist like Lang Lang has endured from the beginning of his international career.”

  Albert Imperato: The Art of Collaboration and the Meaning of "Pictures Reframed"

• “Or at least driven under the radar by the kind of showy construction where creativity and cost are terminally confused.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Breaking All the Rules With New York's Public-Building Design

• “There will be none of the airborne razzle-dazzle of the Panama invasion or the kind of showy amphibious landings that, unopposed, looked silly on CNN in Somalia.”

  Newsweek: How U.S. Troops Would Go In

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