Quotes about showy (14 Quotes)


    He's a goal scorer. He hardly ever takes a bad shot -- when he has a bad angle he can go over his back and get the better shot. It may look a little showy but it's the right play to make.




    When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.


    I had done 'Mystic River' and 'The Woodsman' and they were both internalized characters, characters who could hold an awful lot inside, and I thought it might be cool to go back and do something kind of external and showy, ... I also have rarely played an entertainer, and certainly have rarely played a celebrity, so to tap into those two parts of my own personality, I thought, seemed like it might be kind of interesting.

    He (Ralph) was always quiet and never the showy type who draws attention to himself. But that made people always want to know what he thought about things.

    We tried to experiment with new things like always. This season we tried to make them understated and not showy, much more discrete, and what the people are expecting these days.

    Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it.

    Burke is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.


    White flowering dogwoods will add year-round beauty to your home. Dogwoods have showy spring flowers, scarlet autumn foliage and red berries that attract songbirds.

    Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.




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