showmanship
pronunciation
How to pronounce showmanship in British English:
UK [ˈʃəʊmənʃɪp]
How to pronounce showmanship in American English:
US [ˈʃoʊmənʃɪp]
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- Noun:
- the ability to present something (especially theatrical shows) in an attractive manner
Word Origin
- showmanship (n.)
- 1859, from showman "one who presents shows" + -ship.
Example
- 1. Cinema aspiring to great art , political import and delivered with unabashed showmanship .
- 2. We need your showmanship to build up the suspense .
- 3. Far from the giant rallies and big-screen showmanship of the final days of a presidential campaign , the sleepy town of donzy in burgundy feels untouched by politics .
- 4. God gave you emotions so you could worship him with deep feeling-but those emotions must be genuine , not faked . God hates hypocrisy . He doesn 't want showmanship or pretense or phoniness in worship . He wants your honest , real love .
- 5. But halsted , working within an ingrained culture of surgical showmanship , saw success as the absence of " local recurrence . "