What's the difference between jazzy and showy?

Jazzy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
  • (2) It's hard to think of a musician who better represents the " gringo " vision of carefree, swinging 1960s Rio than Jorge Ben Jor, who back then wrote a slew of jazzy, swinging sambas and bossas, many of which are now considered Brazilian standards.
  • (3) His objections weren't that Gaye's new music was too radical, but that it sounded "jazzy" and "old".
  • (4) Like the jazzy nest of some mutant raver-crows, it is a curious arrival to the sleepy medieval lanes, a 90m-long torrent of orange sticks between the classical law courts and the baroque bell tower.
  • (5) I disagree: Baldwin is taking sides and backing Luke – the boozy, jazzy, truthful husband.
  • (6) 1 Merchant Square Location: Paddington Basin | Floors: 42 | Height: 140m | Architect: Robin Partington | Status: approved | Use: residential and hotel 1 Merchant Square Already home to a motley collection of brash waterside blocks, all competing for attention with their jazzy cladding, Paddington Basin will soon be joined by Westminster's first skyscraper, in the form of this shiny blue cucumber.
  • (7) The first single, Slow Slow, features a tumble of words over cool jazzy guitar chords, video game bleeps, nimble bass and splashy drums, plus a sample of Run DMC circa Peter Piper.
  • (8) Sponsored by the athletes' village developer, Lend Lease, it is now run by the Harris Federation, the educational charity of Carpetright millionaire Lord Harris (those expecting jazzy floors will be disappointed: the school favours grey carpet tiles throughout).
  • (9) In fact, the first Grammy for Best Rap Performance ever given out went to DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince (you may know him as Will Smith) for their happy-go-lucky fun lyrics more than 20 years ago.
  • (10) Perhaps she relates to the line in the play where the jazzy husband says: "Music what you got to do, if you got to do it."
  • (11) Part of this latter approach applies to the music he booked (rising electro-pop stars, indie rock bands, weird outré rappers) and the in-house band – The Roots, a jazzy, innovative hip-hop band – itself.
  • (12) To mark the new programme, which goes out between 11am and 1pm, there are some jazzy, slinky jingles and a revised acronym for the Togs.
  • (13) She still harbours musical ambitions, playing the drums and guitar, although getting to the bottom of exactly what her music might sound like proves a bit of a struggle: "It's all very … it's usually quite jazzy, quite soulful ... My voice is very husky.
  • (14) Bold direction, jazzy score, sprinkling of cinematic in-jokes?
  • (15) How do you feel about the increasingly jazzy flourishes some umpires use to signal boundaries?
  • (16) The film is so-so, despite its blue-chip cast (Eisenberg, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo), the director far more interested in jazzy effects than the actors.
  • (17) Well, maybe it's because my first rap album was the Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff's He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper , but I've never had any prejudice against comedy hip-hop.
  • (18) "Obviously," I say, "some people will go, 'It used to be a pirate, what have they done to the station' and start banging on about Jazzie B and stuff ..." It's going badly again.
  • (19) This is a fab stealth-puzzler with jazzy music and a film noir atmosphere, as you creep around enemies over 120 levels.
  • (20) It’s interesting that he chose to go in a jazzy direction.

Showy


Definition:

  • (a.) Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Why on earth launch a showy new pound coin with so much fanfare, when the real news is supposed to be the UK's superb growth projections, absurdly generous new subsidies for childcare and a thoroughly welcome rise in the income tax threshold, courtesy of Nick Clegg?
  • (2) It is simply a question of following the steps carefully to produce a brilliantly showy pudding.
  • (3) Shilton springs a long way to his left to catch the ball – a slightly showy save but still a good one.
  • (4) Born in 1973 in Honiton, Devon, the future champion was "never showy, but quietly confident," according to her mother, Linda Davis.
  • (5) The result is a mash-up of 9 To 5, Strangers On A Train and The Hangover, and as usual, Bateman's dry wit is an oasis of calm in a movie full of showy comic turns from Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell and others.
  • (6) Similar anticipation by Baines prevented Fellaini scoring a second after a pirouette with the ball in the Everton area, then when Rashford played Valencia in on the overlap with a showy disguised pass, the United player had to delay his cross because not a single red shirt was waiting in the box.
  • (7) The same instinct for the simple, the dramatic and the showy governs his approach to recasting school exams, of which his announcement last week on A-levels was the latest example.
  • (8) "He's very calm and reassuring and he's not showy," said a senior television news executive.
  • (9) "It's not because I'm being showy or precious," she said.
  • (10) There will be some showy changes to domestic law, which other EU members will disapprove of, but can tolerate.
  • (11) I’ll be honest – the whole thing has always just seemed a bit sparkly and showy to me.
  • (12) By her own admission this week May is not a “showy politician” who courts the media, gossips about colleagues over lunch or spends time in the watering holes of Westminster.
  • (13) The FA has been buying land next to schools and building pitches: enclosed timber-built, artificial-turfed pitches, paid for by money that might otherwise have ended up in some familiar dead end: unnecessarily showy mega-stadiums, executive salaries, another Bugatti in the garage.
  • (14) This might tell us more about the company Amis keeps than the views of the general population; especially if you tire of these showy contributions from someone who spends most of his time somewhere else.
  • (15) In a recent Guardian review, they were deemed "big bold showy headphones ... with lacklustre sound" while What Hi-Fi said they were a "one-trick trendy pony" with sound that lacked detail or articulation.
  • (16) Consumers are polarised between bargain prices for basic clothes and trading up for more showy clothes – this may change, and Primark’s foray into markets like the USA adds an element of future risk.” At Primark’s owner, ABF, profits before tax halved to £213m.
  • (17) Meticulously presented, though contrasts of textures and flavours sometimes go too far down the showy molecular route.
  • (18) It is not a showy cry, designed to elicit sympathy.
  • (19) It really breathes as it hobbles along, and yet it's never showy nor overly optimistic.
  • (20) Anthony Lane, writing in the New Yorker, laid his cards on the table: 'If you don't get this cut, if you think it's cheesy or showy or over the top, and if something inside you doesn't flare up and burn at the spectacle that Lean has conjured, then you might as well give up the movies.'

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