What's the difference between showman and showmen?
Showman
Definition:
(n.) One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other is a flamboyant showman who delights in peroxide mohicans and driving a variety of fast cars – most notably, perhaps, an army camouflage Bentley Continental GT.
(2) But when you ask Lewis what exactly the Euston Project is, the editor-in-chief, a supremely confident showman, is irritatingly coy.
(3) Christian is described as “the brainier one, the numbers man”, while Nick is “the showman”.
(4) "Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition" says Palin, ever the showman.
(5) He may be something of a showman, but he's a showman with form.
(6) Michael Hill, 50, showman I was born in Godalming, and have been a market trader and showman all my life.
(7) They represented scholarship, complicated lyricism, musical eclecticism and internationalism (as in Phife’s Caribbean twang) rather than street-corner parochialism; what hip-hop scholar and professor of global studies at New York University Jason King calls “the rise of a European, classically influenced concept of the artist in hip-hop; the rapper as more than a showman but a philosopher, individualist, soul-searcher”.
(8) But while Trump is clearly a showman for whom sexism is part of the shtick, his sexism hasn’t (yet) taken away women’s rights and hurt their lives.
(9) Aubameyang, at least, proved to be a conscientious and popular team player even if he enjoyed extravagant goalscoring celebrations, hairstyles and clothes, as to be expected from a showman who once wore crystal-encrusted boots for a Rhône-Alpes derby.
(10) I am the last person on Earth [Clinton] wants to run against.” But the bully, showman, party crasher and demagogue – as Time’s cover put it – is also the last person many Republicans want to see at the top of the ticket, though arch conservative Cruz comes close.
(11) I’d be mortified if Boris Johnson was made leader of the Tory party, because it will say something profoundly awful about British politics.” “I think he is a showman, and an effective class clown if you like, but the class clown tends to be disruptive, as I think he would be if he had the chance to put his silly views into practice.” The Conservative former chancellor Norman Lamont also came to Johnson’s defence, saying it was a “fact there were fascist theorists who believed very strongly in a united Europe”.
(12) His fellow sports showman Dennis Rodman jumped in as well, declaring last July that Trump had been a “great friend” for many years.
(13) Often cryptic, sometimes boring, Carax nevertheless has a showman's touch, and though his films deal with navel-gazing issues – blocked artists are a recurring motif – it's hard to think of another film-maker whose work features hair-eating leprechauns, accordion blues solos and Kylie Minogue.
(14) On 21 September, Tesla’s chief executive and founder, Elon Musk, used all the tricks in his showman’s book to launch the company’s latest all-electric vehicle , the Model X , at the company’s San Francisco Bay headquarters.
(15) He was something of a showman in the workplace – probably his way of making the job tolerable.
(16) There's something of the old-fashioned showman about Hytner: highbrow and lowbrow isn't a distinction he values (he claims to enjoy Diana Krall as much as Haydn, and admits a secret affection for trashy pop).
(17) "We think Economist Direct presents an exciting new route to market and a fundamental shift in how we think about more casual readers," said Isaac Showman, marketing manager at the Economist.
(18) Such a tour is highly unorthodox for a president-elect but in keeping with Trump’s showman style.
(19) Barack Obama led tributes to the incandescent athlete, activist, humanitarian, poet and showman with a statement that caught the mood of many.
(20) As economic with praise as he was in his playing, Davis admiringly observed that the Minnesotan showman was “a mix of Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Marvin Gaye… and Charlie Chaplin”.
Showmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Showman
Example Sentences:
(1) With Huck Finn , he could recall life on America's great river as a permanent thing, a place of menacing sunsets, starlit nights and strange dawns, of the confessions of dying men, hints of buried treasure, murderous family feuds, overheard shoptalk, the crazy braggadocio of travelling showmen, the distant thunder of the civil war, and two American exiles, Huck the orphan and Jim the runaway slave, floating down the immensity of the great Mississippi.
(2) But was it then any defence that he acted so seldom, that he had deserted the stage he had himself brought to life, or that he had come to regard movies with the hurt feelings of a Kong, hiding in his lair, unwilling to make a cheap spectacle of himself for those exploiting showmen?
(3) Seeing him feels like a link to the great showmen and band leaders of American music – James Brown always comes to mind."
(4) Grillo, and to a lesser extent Berlusconi – both showmen politicians – were the victors.
(5) The privately owned site, used by members of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain – travelling fairground operators – was in mourning on Tuesday following news of the deaths, the guild president, David Wallis, said.
(6) But it can hardly come as a surprise that the “grab-em-by-the-p” candidate has helped elevate other vulgar, amoral showmen.
(7) He's one of the great showmen Goddard: " When it comes to playing live , Prince is just so confident in his ability.