Showier

To show halter he likes them to be "showier" and, of course, blowier than that. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They're much larger and showier, more vibrantly colored. ❋ Lettie Teague (2010)

Barrymore has the showier role and gives the more riveting performance, but that takes nothing away from Lange, who captures the smothering selfishness that was the flip side of Big Edie's determination to live life on her own terms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So, plant scientists bred varieties like the October glory red maple, which can dependably produce anthocyanins for a showier appearance. ❋ Joel M. Lerner (2010)

There are flashier bars, showier bartenders and places with edgier offerings, but owner Hisashi Kishi is a bartender so masterful and revered that fellow bartenders are often too intimidated to enter his place. ❋ Tom Downey (2012)

Reds (anthocyanins) form in fall, and this tendency has been bred into many trees to give them a showier appearance. ❋ Joel M. Lerner (2010)

I worry that the two Wife co-stars could cancel each other out, but Cumming has the showier role, so it could come down to him against the most significant scene-stealer on this list, Thrones' impish Dinklage, the best shot HBO's lavish fantasy has at a major prize. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It's all a bundle of contradictions: The shows are showier, but we're more distracted, yet also encouraged to engage more. ❋ Pia Catton (2011)

Impossible as it might seem, greater pay transparency might prompt, in the absence of greater redistribution, discontent rather than harmony – witness the unhappy footballers and writers who have smarted, as the noble AS Byatt unforgettably did, when a showier rival was publicly awarded what Monbiot's critics call "silly money". ❋ Unknown (2011)

The mixed-media event is a good bit showier than much in the series, which has a strong base in politically charged projects. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Danton is the showier role and Toby Stephens invests it with his own charisma and brings out the character's central contradiction: he both seeks to defy death and surrender to it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The fashion-conscious rich world moved away from these development fundamentals to concentrate instead on the showier provision of education and health, and then more recently on democracy and ‘good governance.’ ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though for the most part his blazing intensity as an actor only shone through with showier roles beginning in the seventies, he began as a talented juvenile player in the 1950s. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The asters do make good companions for the showier flowers and the pollinators love them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I don't think the actors will get much Oscar love, simply because other, showier performances will probably trump the ones in this film. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Balanchine's stylish, showier "Ragtime" duet followed, with Holowchuk and Michael Cook. ❋ Unknown (2010)