(1) For all the media razzmatazz, the big economic decisions and announcements are almost always made elsewhere.
(2) Today saw the largest military parade that North Korea has ever witnessed: a blend of sheer force and razzmatazz.
(3) Reputations riding on the iPhone 6 Amid all the razzmatazz of Apple's latest launch – including a live performance from U2, and iTunes account holders receiving the band's new album whether they wanted it or not – it is easy to forget that the success of the iPhone 6 and Watch is crucial for its chief executive, Tim Cook, and highly paid retail guru, Angela Ahrendts.
(4) Dein was fascinated by the high-rolling razzmatazz of American sport and frustrated by the endless sub-committees of the Football League, the competition to which his club then belonged.
(5) It was difficult to think of another FA Cup final when the winning manager has been condemned so quickly and, if that will be remembered as an embarrassment for United, there was an awkward sub-plot for the Football Association as well, bearing in mind the ridiculous razzmatazz that preceded the game.
(6) "We didn't go pink and we didn't want razzmatazz," said Annette Phillips, superintendent registrar.
(7) Razzmatazz and balloons is not going to be the mood at the next election.
(8) It seems in keeping with his film-making style that there is no razzmatazz about Thin Man Films’s headquarters.
(9) The conference slogan will be “Straight talking, honest politics” – an echo of the Corbyn leadership campaign in which he shunned razzmatazz in favour of hundreds of unrehearsed and often unscripted speeches.
(10) Barron Trump, 10, joined his father, Donald, and mother Melania, at the noisy, razzmatazz climax of the Republican national convention in Cleveland, his parents keeping a protective hand on him as rock music blared and the arena erupted.
(11) Their continuation suggests next year's Oscars will maintain the air of showbiz razzmatazz that saw a number of old-school song and dance numbers, as well as Theron and Channing Tatum's elegant waltz.
(12) Bolland suggests that M&S has avoided these disasters because of the strong sourcing policies of Plan A, which was billed as costing £200m over five years when it launched in January 2007 with typical Rose razzmatazz , but has since saved the company £320m.
(13) Amid the razzmatazz of Geneva, much of the talk on the sidelines among European manufacturers will be how to take capacity out of an industry that is suffering from a severe production glut.
(14) Tony Smythe has no doubt what his father would think of the modern Everest scene, and the fight that took place on the mountain this spring : "He would have been horrified by the whole thing – the razzmatazz and the vast numbers going up there.
(15) What’s the point hanging around for the fight when he can fight [Juan Manuel] Márquez, [Brandon] Rios or [Keith] Thurman.” The rumbling, velvet tones of the MC, Michael Buffer, welcomed the home favourite to the ring with unmistakable razzmatazz and, having taken the measure of his man with the jab in round one, Brook set about unravelling Dan’s evening in the next round.
(16) In contrast to Yes Scotland’s razzmatazz, the Better Together launch at Napier University’s futuristic silver auditorium at Craiglockhart in Edinburgh a month later was a far more sober affair.
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.'