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44 Sentences With "makes a show of"

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He issues a bold threat and then makes a show of a rational retreat.
Outside, the air smells strongly of diesel, and Douglas makes a show of wrinkling his nose.
To avoid detection, he makes a show of reading local newspapers in each town he passes through.
Basically, he's just taking some poor old lady's money, while he makes a show of doing his job.
"If someone makes a show of force at your front door, would you not ready your slingshot?" it said.
On the campaign trail, Mr. Trump makes a show of embracing the association and its leadership, while accusing Mrs.
Instead, he makes a show of driving quickly away, not even answering his mother as she bids him goodbye.
The President's playbook is clear: Each year he makes a show of skipping the dinner and holding a media-bashing rally instead.
He makes a show of his identity from the first possible moment, the impulsive one with the skills to back it up.
Cassidy-Collins makes a show of pitting rival ideological models against each other — but it also preserves the A.C.A.'s waiver provision.
Facebook's attempt at News Feed transparency comes as the company makes a show of its efforts to change amid a growing chorus of critics.
When the police officer applies physical force to the individual, or when the officer makes a show of authority to which the individual submits.
He even makes a show of it by replacing Jr's photo of a model holding a burger with a new picture of just the burger.
In that special and a second one, "Equanimity," both released on Sunday by Netflix, he makes a show of hesitating before wading into controversial territory.
But O'Donnell asks relevant and solid questions, never makes a show of it, and has been covering Washington, D.C., politics going back to the Clinton administration.
Before the candidates are announced, Blitzer makes a show of introducing former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara (say what you will, but that fucker is a survivor).
YouTube's vague conspiracy theory policies present issues for the platform Should YouTube promote or profit from videos about conspiracy theories if the host makes a show of "just asking questions here"?
There is little doubt that this authoritarian approach to religion is part of the reason why certain evangelicals identify with "strong" leaders like Trump, who makes a show of his toughness, bravado, and machismo.
The United States can more forcefully call out North Korea for its violation of the non-proliferation treaty if it makes a show of fully honoring its own treaty obligation to pursue nuclear weapons reductions.
Like the disco keyboards juxtaposed against the scratchy punk guitars in "Stay Hungry," the Byrne character's sudden rush of desire is most striking when contextualized by songs on which he makes a show of buttoning his top button.
Violet makes a show of backing off, but only because she has spotted a new avenue to the Bagshaw manse, and it runs straight through Tom Branson, whose mild gaze and unclouded brow have somehow bewitched Miss Smith.
So I'm walking along this path, lumbering a big adidas bag full of T-shirts and appallingly fitting jeans, and a small child makes a show of hopping off a swing, sprinting around the playground through the gate, and then up to me.
In spite of the civil rights legislation of the previous decade, Ann still argues for basic fairness in front of a City Council composed entirely of white men, one of whom makes a show of turning his back on her when she speaks.
He recognizes her and makes a show of comforting her, but then tells her that he can't accompany her into the delivery room because her doctor won't let him; after the attending physician says he can come along, he makes a lame excuse and disappears.
"This is Mr. Marconi's baby," says Marconi Museum operations director Todd Ottosen, more than once, as he carefully lowers the entire back section of the FX. Before closing it, he makes a show of effortlessly lifting the carbon fiber engine bay up and down, with two fingers.
But what about the glowering Professor Kingsfield, in "The Paper Chase," who makes a show of telling a student to phone his mother because he will never be a lawyer, and then gives him a rare A, since, by virtue of struggling toward his goal, a lawyer is what he has learned to be?
Unlike Gropius's Bauhaus building, which rises from a flattened landscape and makes a show of a long glass curtain-walled facade, the ADGB Trade Union School is built into a hillside, its various rooms and functions disaggregated into a series of connected buildings of diminishing height: more a complex than a single structure, incomprehensible at any particular moment or angle.
Meanwhile, a second set of performers, in their own connected but distinct plots, provide the comic relief: Alan Ruck as the oldest sibling, son of Roy's first wife, who makes a show of staying out of the business while sticking his nose in wherever he can; Nicholas Braun as a bumpkin cousin who stumbles into a role at the company; and especially Matthew Macfadyen as the sister's fiancé, a feckless suck-up out of a Waugh novel who's Mr. Armstrong's most original creation.
Constance makes a show of flirting with Tony for Mrs. Hardcastle, while he tries to repel her advances. Hastings chats with Mrs. Hardcastle, points out Constance and Tony, saying that they are betrothed.
The Iranian government makes a show of military force on Iran Army Day with parades every 18 April, often demonstrating new defense technologies.Iran's Annual Army Day Parades, IrDiplomacy.ir; accessed 29 November 2015."Deputy top commander: Iran standing against threats powerfully", United Press International; accessed 29 November 2015.
Sofie wants a spell to heal Emma's sick rabbit. Loki makes a show of not being able to carve the runes into the stick, as his arms are chained. Sofie unchains one of Loki's arms, and he makes the rune stick for her. The spell works, and the rabbit is healed.
The Macmillan family graves in 2012 at St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes. Macmillan's grave is on the right. Macmillan had often play-acted being an old man long before real old age set in. As early as 1948 Humphry Berkeley wrote of how "he makes a show of being feeble and decrepit", mentioning how he had suddenly stopped shambling and sprinted for a train.
Monica then begins a romantic relationship with Michael. Monica is horrified when Jeff finally admits his plan to destroy the Carringtons in "Promises You Can't Keep", but she later agrees to help him. Fallon later discovers that the Colbys are conspiring against her in "Nothing But Trouble". In "Our Turn Now", she makes a show of her trust in Monica to encourage a confession, but Monica stays silent.
The character of Teg in Robert Howard's play Committee (1662) has been claimed to be the first example of the type. "There the Irish servant makes a show of false naïvety in order to outwit the Parliamentarians beleaguering his Royalist master". Captain Macmorris in Henry V by William Shakespeare is a memorable character. His line "What ish my nation?" was later appropriated by modern Irish writers, becoming a "recurrent epigraph".
Troy visits a carnival where he pays $1 to enter a "Sleeping Beauty" attraction. Inside the tent, a carny is dressed up as a doctor (Logan Ramsey), alongside two women dressed as nurses. The doctor makes a show of examining the Sleeping Beauty (Tisa Farrow) to demonstrate that she is healthy. He then announces that "red-blooded men" can pay another $1 to kiss the Sleeping Beauty and try to wake her.
A pilot, Captain Greta Cooper (played by Essence Atkins), begins hallucinating while in a United States Air Force jet simulator. Meanwhile, House is being pressured by Cuddy to whittle down his applicant pool. He makes a show of firing many of them arbitrarily, before being paged by Cooper, who seeks to bribe him into diagnosing her off the record, as she doesn't want NASA to disqualify her from the astronaut program. House is initially uninterested, but becomes intrigued when she mentions her sudden synesthesia.
Willis makes a show of arresting Barb and Cora, but instead of putting handcuffs on Barb, he slips her a hand grenade. Barb uses the grenade to kill Fatso and cause enough confusion to allow Barb, Axel, Cora and Willis to pile into Barb's armored van and lead the Congressionals on a car chase, culminating in a hand-to-hand fight between Barb and Colonel Pryzer on a forklift suspended by crane above the harbor. Pryzer falls to his death while Barb escapes. The party makes it to the airport, where Barb reveals that she still has the contact lenses.
At that moment, Roxie witnesses one of her fellow inmates, a Hungarian woman who insisted her innocence but could not speak English and whose public lawyer refused to defend her, as she is hanged ("Hungarian Rope Trick"). The trial date arrives, and the now freshly terrified Roxie runs back to Billy, who calms Roxie by suggesting she will be fine so long as she makes a show of the trial ("Razzle Dazzle"). Billy uses Amos as a pawn, turning around and insisting that Amos is actually the father of Roxie's child. Roxie steals all of Velma's schtick, down to the rhinestone garter, to the dismay of Mama and Velma ("Class").
Rusty begins to suspect problems in his relationship with Debbie due to her seeming acceptance of Stone's obviously outward sexual advances, but she rebuffs his suspicions. One night, Stone walks in on the couple and makes a show of his attractive body and oversized genitalia. Spending the following night at an Arizona campsite, Rusty and Debbie sneak away and attempt to have sex at the Four Corners Monument, where officers from all four states confront the couple and each other when they start arguing about who gets to arrest them, allowing the two to escape. James finally asserts himself against Kevin with encouragement from Adena, who they encounter again.
While Octavian's forces are on the march, Riva falls to the Queen's onslaught. Her vast number of troops are bolstered by the feral furies of all the Alerans the Vord have slain, and Aquitainus is forced to retreat and evacuate civilians to the Calderon valley, where Bernard and Amara, Octavian's uncle and his wife, have been fortifying the valley in preparation for the Vord. During the assault, Aquitainus makes a show of claiming new furies to bolster his power in an attempt to draw out his wife Invidia, who had betrayed Alera and joined the Vord Queen and become the Queen's right hand. He succeeds but loses the ensuing fight, and is mortally wounded while Invidia escapes.
As the tale humorously makes fun of a wicked usage of wisdom, it makes a show of how wisdom has a destructiveness that can surpass society's sense of order as well as the complexities of the village's society. It is said that wisdom is filled with dangerous power that can turn righteousness and purity meaningless and laugh away at the stability and orderliness of society important for maintaining political power. Inomata Tokiwa, a lecturer at Kyoritsu Women's Junior College, analyzes this saying that it tells of how even though Sukuna-hikona is a god who created the nation as well and the creator god of chemical technology such as drugs (medicine) and alcohol, "wisdom" by itself is not a representation of societal orderliness.
Hall's Pictorial Weekly was at its strongest during the 1973–1977 term of the Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition government. So sharp and constant was its satirical send up of the government ministers of the time, that it is generally accepted that the programme played an important part in bringing the coalition into disrepute and perhaps even contributed to bringing it down.The Irish Times, "RTE makes a show of itself for its 21st", 31 December 1982 Ireland at the time had a very volatile economic situation and the show spared no political expense in portraying the then Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave, as the "Minister for Hardship," while the Minister for Finance, Richie Ryan, was portrayed as "Richie Ruin". The show also portrayed the former Taoiseach Jack Lynch (played by Frank Kelly) as a rather benign pipe- smoking figure.
As relations gather for the reading of the wealthy Mr. Mordaunt's will, Sir John Vesey's poor cousin Alfred Evelyn and the equally poor Clara part ways for fear that a marriage without money would bring them both misery. Sir John Vesey expects his own daughter Georgina to be the will's main beneficiary, but this instead turns out to be Evelyn, previously employed by Vesey as his secretary to make Vesey appear more generous (and thus more wealthy) than he really is. Evelyn decides that - if Clara would not marry him poor - she is too principled to accept him now he is rich and so leaves their relationship broken off. Vesey suggests Evelyn marries Georgina and he makes a show of acquiescence, but Evelyn simultaneously embarks on schemes to convince Vesey to break off the engagement by tricking him into believing Evelyn has lost his new fortune.
Tchernavin's I Speak for the Silent: Prisoners of the Soviets (1935) and his wife's book Escape From The Soviets (1934) were among the first to give testimony of life under the Soviets, the GPU's operations and the Gulag. The New Masses (a literary, communist magazine in New York City) decried Tchernavin's I Speak for the Silent as a "vicious" attack on the Soviet Union by a member of the "nobility." The review stated: > Tchernavin poses as the intellectual who is above political intrigue and is > anxious to do his job, but prevented by persecution as a class enemy... > Under the guise of a "scientific analysis" he points out that the control > figures "dictated" by the Central Planning Buro were impossible and absurd, > because of the shortage of labor, skilled and unskilled, the physical > handicaps, and inefficiency of party members... The rest of the book deals > with Tchernavin's prison experiences and his attempts to escape. Here the > scientist's mask is dropped and we enter the dime novel world... Tchernavin > makes a show of scientific objectivity but essentially his is the story of a > man who through class drawbacks was a misfit in a new society.

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