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"showboating" Definitions
  1. behaviour that is intended to show people how clever, skilful, etc. you are

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Why can't one put off by showboating simply be put off by showboating?
If all this showboating sounds ridiculous — it was, kind of.
They know their efforts are often perceived as controversial showboating.
The showboating style is what got Page into trouble against Lima.
Much of the protest seemed to be about spectacle and showboating.
Jerome Brisard, the referee, was unimpressed, and warned Neymar about showboating.
Leos always act so surprised when people call them out for showboating.
Democrats were clearly frustrated at the GOP showboating and badgering of the witness.
The first set was tennis's version of slam-dunk contest, a showboating extravaganza.
In that case, it would be more about males showboating and showing off.
There will always be squabbling, showboating and foot-dragging in the upper chamber.
Some people may frame this instinct negatively, as showboating or preening or overstepping.
"They don't just want to see showboating and hot air," Boustany told The Hill.
Because for all of Pennywise's showboating, It's most horrifying monsters aren't "it" at all.
Despite the government's showboating, none of the Filipino officials involved has been held responsible.
In some films, such detours can come across as merely ornamental or empty showboating.
That will have the effect of seriously tamping down the normal Senate showboating. 215.
Mr Johnson's shambolic, showboating style is not just a way of getting his message across.
Cornish maintains a steady hand behind the camera, moving the action along coherently without showboating.
There's a bit about Ty Cobb, whose showboating was...not really his worst personality trait.
Also because the author's showboating keeps interrupting the terrific work the cast is doing elsewhere.
But for many, showboating — willfully, gleefully taunting a vanquished opponent — is a step too far.
His showboating is a bit of a facade, a way to mask a tender heart.
Instead of showboating his success, though, Blazer was gracious and impressively humble as the evening's host.
Speaking of showboating performers, how about the nomination of "Latin History for Morons" as best play?
When Leonard exercised his rematch clause, he out-boxed and flustered Duran, showboating all the while.
Then there was the Republicans showboating to a point where they actually turned him into Oliver North.
I stopped watching football five years ago because of the showboating and honestly, I'm glad I did.
In the short-term, many new CEOs make progress through financial engineering, showboating, and charming their shareholders.
Baseball's veteran hierarchies and unwritten rules have long prized conformity and dismissed displays of individuality as showboating.
Ms. Waters has also faced fierce criticism from people who see her tone as showboating and disrespectful.
Mr. Reynolds seemed to be showboating — a weird thing to say about a piece you "don't" play.
On the other, they weren't allowed to pose the questions themselves, thus eliminating the opportunity for showboating.
It's a good fit for 'Nandez's somber flow, a vignette of confusion and introspection amidst rap's usual showboating.
Peter Rice, who was named the chairman of Walt Disney Television on Monday, avoids that kind of showboating.
A showboating, foul-mouthed charmer with a languid smile, he first plays to the crowd, then menaces it.
That's because, by their nature, these are serious affairs, without the opportunity for showboating and theatricality that Trump craves.
WASHINGTON — President Trump's impeachment inquiry has already stoked boisterous scenes of partisan showboating, and it's not even public yet.
That's what happens after a half-decade of rampant winning and occasional showboating, which made them so-called supervillains.
Prior to his defiance of the draft, he was a funny, showboating boxer who belonged to an eccentric religion.
But in succumbing to this showboating and spite, hasn't Comey joined Trump almost as much as he's defying him?
Writing in The Times, Manohla Dargis called this best-picture winner "a funny, frenetic, buoyant and rambunctiously showboating entertainment."
Bo Dietl, the showboating former police detective who's running as an independent, could take center-right votes from her.
GREEN I could have done with more showboating, the kind of bravura that makes a musical really take off.
Asked why she did so herself, when it could come across as showboating, she was quick with her response.
As their initially tentative friendship evolves into something more intense, Elio engages in some musical showboating for Oliver's benefit.
The pair reportedly hated one another on sight, because they each thought the other one was a showboating snob.
So, yes, Oliver Sacks's writing, like any writing, partakes in showboating, even when cloaked in modesty and self-effacement.
Still, even he isn't exempt from the tyranny of Cashmere Cat and the showboating of his copy of "Wolves" CDQ.
In a fairly surprising twist, Werdum out-struck Browne for five-straight rounds, showboating and taunting incessantly as he did.
Somehow, a theme-park ride combined with clever, madcap visuals and Johnny Depp's scapegrace showboating added up to something fresh.
A film that deliberately amplifies Bundy's vainglorious courtroom showboating and manipulative sexual appeal is exactly what he would have wished for.
But Maverick finds his foundation most shaken when, during a mission, Goose is killed as an indirect result of Maverick's showboating.
A film which deliberately amplifies Bundy's vainglorious courtroom showboating and manipulative sexual appeal is exactly what he would have wished for.
Then again, I sometimes felt that some of the White House correspondents made it easier for her with their own showboating.
Showboating, for lack of a better term, is the most direct and blatant way to disrespect another fighter on the kill floor.
Showboating authorities in some well-off places have flooded flashy new toilet blocks with free Wi-Fi, phone-charging and vending machines.
They have taken the easy way out: showboating and complaining instead of working on a solution to stabilize the health-insurance market.
And while many dance-music purists saw Justice as inauthentic, their reception in the showboating realm of EDM was no more encouraging.
Despite this theatrical provocation and showboating, the atmosphere among fighters is one of camaraderie, reflecting moraingy's role as a male bonding tradition.
A lot of people laugh along with this, or dismiss it as the crass showboating some athletes resort to, but some are offended.
So to a large extent building fancy new ones is showboating... With a prototype missile supposedly carrying an unknown quantity of radioactive fuel.
While it's not unusual for presidents to exaggerate their accomplishments early on, Trump's Twitter habits have taken the showboating to a new level.
When Crosby did it in 20023, he was ripped by Don Cherry and others for showboating, and he hasn't broken it out since.
Some of this may be showboating by game developers let loose in a new medium, eager to try out the most extreme features.
For previous generations, showboating on the court had been so anathema that Chinese basketball teams were barred from keeping statistics for individual players.
OKJA A young girl's giant pachyderm-like animal friend falls into the clutches of a ruthless corporation headed by a showboating Tilda Swinton.
When I speak of my family it may seem like I'm showboating my own cosmic serendipity, that I was blessed with such considerate blood.
The true constant is Ms. Helin's tightly controlled performance — without any showboating, she continues to find both heartbreak and humor in a difficult character.
Hailed by his supporters as a standard-bearer for the fight against corruption, Mr. Saakashvili has been mocked by officials as a showboating opportunist.
I could see Disney — or a company of similar stature — showboating here and there, but probably not enough to break down the talks entirely.
Of which politician did our current Bagehot columnist write that "he is regarded by his friends and enemies alike as shallow, showboating and self-serving"?
Negasonic Teenage Warhead puts Wade in his place with a well-timed glare or long, uncomfortable silence when he gets too cocky or starts showboating.
Political campaigning is banned in Cuba and Diaz-Canel has avoided the showboating that has ended the careers of other political pretenders over the years.
Sharp's greatest challenge will be whether he can continue to win with his showboating antics as he goes from regional level to national and beyond.
That's a drag because there's some talent here, beginning with Emma Thompson, who has a showboating supporting role and shares script credit with Bryony Kimmings.
"Bless your heart," he remarks to the showboating defendant, complimenting his legal skills and passively tolerating Bundy's impromptu marriage proposal to one of the witnesses.
But it is shocking how few members actually understand the basic function of a hearing — or chose to ignore collective goals in favor of showboating.
Despite deGrasse Tyson's admirable efforts to dig in, the overall result was focused on showboating and showering with compliments, rather than any sort of thoughtful critique.
"And instead, they're showboating and they're actually shorting out their constituents that they committed to represent by not coming to meet with the president," she continued.
"And instead, they're showboating and they're actually shorting out their constituents that they committed to represent by not coming to meet with the president," she said.
As a salesman, competitor, courter of politicians and controversy and, above all, as a showboating self-promoter, Fred Trump was the Donald Trump of his day.
"The Irishman," with a blustering, showboating, disarmingly tender Al Pacino in the Hoffa role, isn't competing with that movie, or trying to correct the historical record.
The Irishman is one of the fight game's most captivating characters because of his merciless trash talk, his showboating in the cage, and his concussive punching.
Personally, I like my private time to be about my needs, and not the bigger-is-better showboating of people obsessed with their erections — architectural or otherwise.
The $7 video involves a lot of cliché showboating about how "content is king," and absurdly basic advice about studying popular influencers and keeping to a schedule.
Instead, there will be multiple inquests with overlapping charges and pronounced differences in the quality of staff and members; there will be more than a little showboating.
These maneuvers weren't just showboating—she helped push through a major reform of military contracting, which required more public disclosure and limited the length of the contracts.
" He added, "Young readers will be effortlessly educated even as they are entertained by Grandma's adventures in fox hunting, snob baiting and all-around small-town showboating.
It is also a brief for the slow-and-steady school of leadership, a subtle reminder that showboating moralizers can be balanced by grounded and wiser souls.
Congressional hearings, however, have a tendency to slide sideways, almost immediately, into a morass of individual lawmakers' peculiar fixations, passion projects, and preferred modes of single-issue showboating.
It is part of his style to disguise accurate if unconventional strikes from awkward angles while frustrating opponents with showboating dance moves in the middle of a fight.
"It seems like I'm just ticking off one issue in America after another, but that's not my intention," he said afterwards, trying to preempt any accusations of empty showboating.
Conservative pundit Brett O'Keefe (Jake Weber) continues mouthing off as usual, but Keane could single-handedly save the world from an incoming meteor and he'd criticize her for showboating.
The director Ed Sylvanus Iskandar minimizes his showboating instincts — and then maximizes them in a late-breaking sword fight — mostly giving the actors space to work, with varying success.
It is easy to become cynical about the cacophony of modern living, particularly when you are being bathed in human skronk—all the showboating and gasbaggery of social media.
Though some critics accused him of showboating and unfocused singing, especially early in his career, he had been winning more than his share of rave reviews in recent years.
Pacino is delightful in his role, reconciling his preening showboating (appropriate for a puffed-up, sometimes self-appointed leader of men) with his ability to go quiet and seething.
Former NFL star John Abraham is BLASTING Baker Mayfield for going full Johnny Manziel in Oklahoma's double-OT heartbreaker to Georgia ... saying the QB lost the game by showboating.
It's the first day that the loud, showboating, aggressive, but none too intelligent creature dominates the stars, mirroring the one dominating American political conversation and threatening China in the process.
Facing criticism over the way he ran his firm, he accused one shareholder of not being "open and honest" and told a representative of trade union Unite to stop "showboating".
As the showboating Lewis, Dominique Scott pumps up the energy and plays standing up with flair and high skill, but his strutting take on the man becomes too foppishly cartoonish.
There's not much room for showboating or sloppiness in "Dear Evan Hansen," and it might be emblematic of the show's discipline that its projection technology has also been upgraded recently.
Nevertheless, amid Trump's showboating and frequently stream of consciousness thoughts, he raises some critical foreign policy questions that challenge the longtime Washington foreign policy consensus but deserve to be taken seriously.
With solid riffs dropping out only to make room for other equally enticing sections, it allows the competence of the rest of the band to shine without any showboating or cheese.
It has a historic weakness for showboating — the more suffering the better — which is why Joaquin Phoenix (often otherwise worthy) and his jutting rib cage in "Joker" seem like a lock.
That probably spells doom for the third major contender from the film, the British actor Graham, who goes toe-to-toe with Hoffa as the showboating teamster Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano.
The workplace environment created by Weinstein sounds eerily familiar to those who've read the countless accounts of his sexual assaults; tactics of intimidation, manipulation, shame, pity, dominance, showboating, fear, gaslighting, and silencing.
Babe Ruth's gilded image isn't diminished by his showboating, his attention-seeking, his on-field antics or his off-field behavior—those are what cemented his status and effectively sealed his legacy.
The man in the red corner even turned crowd-pleaser in the second — dropping his guard and showboating, with the odd feint thrown in — before Oumiha came back stronger in the third.
Manigault has served as Trump's chief adviser on African-American issues in the White House, and in June she attacked the Congressional Black Caucus for "showboating" and refusing to meet with Trump.
Many of the elements of a typical Mikhail D. Prokhorov news conference were on display on Monday: the deadpan humor, the rhetorical showboating, the stubborn optimism and the incongruous talk of N.B.A. championships.
Isn't it possible that every list of books and songs is carefully selected to appease the largest possible audience, validating the things were already love, without explicitly showboating for the lowest common denominator?
The whole thing stems from Pryor rubbing the defense the wrong way last year, after nabbing highlight reel one-handed catches and showboating during drills where defenders were not allowed to hit him.
" D.K.: "The men are showboating, they're on the cliffs, they want to be seen, they're drawing a lot of attention, they're making kind of a big deal, cinematically, when they sing their shanties.
Hawley throws a lot at the screen, including a gun, a distraction (Pearl Amanda Dickson), a little piquant showboating (from Ellen Burstyn as Lucy's grandmother) and some reductive ideas about women and power.
As for Boris Johnson, the man most likely to try to unseat the prime minister before the next election, he is regarded by his friends and enemies alike as shallow, showboating and self-serving.
He has moderately scaled back his extreme-cinema approach for "13 Hours," perhaps realizing that its story or the ordeals endured by the C.I.A. security team merit a level of sobriety rather than showboating.
With EA Sports Big's kung-fu fantasy style showboating and EA's access to popular music, the Street games presented an atmosphere that perfectly encompassed the attitude and feeling of playing in your own neighborhood.
And that's the Gaga that we got during last night's Pepsi-festooned halftime show performance—a traditionalist, showboating approach with equal parts old-world gaudiness and boundary-pushing (for the Super Bowl, anyway) flair.
Oddly, though, the flashiest roles belong to men: the showboating worm Weber and, especially, the toxic Stu — hardly the only villain here, but the one with the most power, and he relishes abusing it.
A former prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney's office, where he worked for 12 years, Justice Burke is known as a prickly but fair-minded jurist with little tolerance for legal showboating or incompetence.
I like that we're making attempts to accept and empathize, even if it sometimes feels like showboating because that's certainly better than the opposite—showing off our ability to be racist or sexist or whatever.
Among Democrats who know him well, Mr. Kaine is considered a self-effacing workhorse who shuns the spotlight and prefers digging into domestic policy and national security rather than showboating on Sunday news programs. Mrs.
As soon as the first showboating guitar riff gambols its way into your ears, you're taken somewhere else, where everything has the sheen of the way things used to be, viewed through rose-tinted aviators.
New chairmen -- aware of the political risks of appearing too zealous in their new majority -- have taken care to impress upon their members that there is a fine line between getting answers and political showboating.
At the end of the day, showboating may please the fat punters and dreary celebs in attendance, but it's best to protect yourself at all times with your hands held high and your chin stuck low.
The considerations now are far more complex than in the '80s and '90s when showboating televangelists like Jimmy Swaggart were ensnared in sex scandals and the lesson drawn was simple: Pastors should not succumb to temptation.
Moore's Bond era was perhaps its most cheekily ridiculous; as a series that had started out as tongue-in-cheek satire, it had rapidly trended toward bigger action scenes, over-the-top gadgets, and showboating self-parody.
They staged the hearing differently, allowing committee lawyers to conduct some of the questioning, a move that cut down on the showboating by lawmakers and gave their respective counsels the opportunity to pursue substantive lines of questioning.
As the game heats up, and Bobby starts to realize this won't be an easy victory, he loses the clownish showboating, takes off the jacket with his sponsor's logo, and starts to actually work for the win.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The showboating Yankees may win more often, but the staid New York Football Giants have quietly produced consistent teams and a handful of championships, staking a worthy claim as the city's most revered franchise.
Brown ended up with the trick shot of the day: a between-the-legs half-volley drop-shot winner that was not just showboating, because he hit it after a net cord had forced a last-minute adjustment.
Two years ago, during spring training, he criticized sluggers Jose Bautista, then with the Toronto Blue Jays, and Yoenis Cespedes of the Mets for what he considered showboating with their bat-flip celebrations during the previous years' playoffs.
Why she feuded with the Congressional Black Caucus  Manigault Newman publicly feuded with the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) in June after CBC lawmakers refused to meet with Trump, accusing them of "showboating" and refusing to serve their constituents.
It&aposs embarrassing that people killed the fatted calf and rolled out the red carpet for his book tour when yet again, we see him putting himself before the process, a grandstanding, showboating, but more importantly, subverting the process.
Sony Pictures' "Money Monster," premiering at the Cannes Film Festival this week and opening in U.S. theaters on Friday, sees Clooney play Lee Gates, a suave, showboating host of a money news TV program, held hostage live on air.
Episode 714 was mostly about setting the table for the chaos to come in the final two installments, but "The Other Side" did give us some pivotal character moments between the Saviors' showboating and Gregory's latest act of cowardice.
Directed by Brett Ratner The Buddies After a diplomat's daughter has been kidnapped and taken from Hong Kong to Los Angeles, the showboating L.A.P.D. officer Carter (Chris Tucker) is paired with the clueless but courageous Hong Kong cop Lee (Jackie Chan).
They start at the Art Institute, continue on to a community meeting at a housing project (where Obama addresses the crowd and impresses Michelle without ever quite resorting to showboating), and end by going to see Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.
"In a few weeks, when Cory Booker is done showboating around Iowa and dropping out of the presidential race, he'll run back to New Jersey to pretend he cares about all of us he left behind," Mehta said in his campaign video.
To hear Spicer tell it, the reason for the change is that the off-camera briefing is more substantive than the on-camera one -- marked by considerably less showboating by reporters eager to make a name for themselves by confronting the press secretary on camera.
Her Karla is one of the New York archetypes you would least like to be trapped in an elevator with: a showboating narcissist who draws you in to push you away, while operating on the conversational principle that there's no such thing as too much information.
Iglesias," the orthodoxy is up-to-date, as demonstrated by the summary of American history delivered by a showboating teacher's pet: "Wiped out the indigenous people, oppressed the blacks, did some good stuff around World War II and now the sun is setting on our empire.
Number of special counsels appointed and FBI directors fired One each -- the scandal surrounding allegations of collusion by members of his campaign staff with Russians bent on influencing the election has, at turns, led Trump to fire his National Security Advisor (for lying) and his FBI director (for showboating).
A New York Times Magazine piece about the showboating lawyer said that by early July, after teaming up with Stormy Daniels, he had scored more than 200 interviews with cable and network TV shows, becoming a fixture with left-wing hosts like Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC and Anderson Cooper on CNN.
In the same way, we can assume that Goose Gossage—who was teammates with Rickey Henderson and Dennis Eckersley and Reggie Jackson—is less concerned with showboating and youthful narcissism and deviations from baseball's grim and coppish norms than he is with the horror of realizing that those celebrations are no longer his.
"To prove that he did it not because Comey was grandstanding or showboating or all the other excuses he has given, but because he wanted to impede the investigation, that would be awfully hard to prove," said Alex Whiting, a former federal prosecutor who now teaches criminal law at Harvard Law School.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, let's never forget, was the set for one of Prince's most widely memorable live performances, a marvelous, showboating "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" which you should watch again right now, if only to marvel at the fact that his guitar shot up to heaven and never returned.
Norbury into taking a shot at him with a typically smug display of showboating rather than simply taking the win and shutting up, Sherlock rightly feels responsible for Mary's death (now we know why the Season 3 finale was titled "His Last Vow," — he's obviously learned his lesson) but at least it's clear that he's taking his failure seriously.
In over two dozen conversations in Mountain Brook and nearby suburbs, Moore was often described as one in a long line of embarrassing, showboating Alabama politicians from George Wallace, who vowed "segregation forever," to their most recent governor who resigned last spring after being arrested for misusing campaign funds in connection with an affair with a political adviser.
The first episode of season seven is a success from the cold open—in which the late Walder Frey utters the line every actor dreams of speaking: "You're wondering why I brought you all here"—to its ludicrous, showboating, and breathtaking last scene—in which a mute Peter Dinklage makes the easiest 2 million in history.
His Ali Shuffle may have been pure showboating, but the "rope-a-dope" — in which he rested on the ring's ropes and let an opponent punch himself out — was the stratagem that won the Rumble in the Jungle against George Foreman in 1974, the fight in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) in which he regained his title.
She is now best known for writing "Gigi" and "Cheri," but Mr. Westmoreland's film tracks Colette (1873-1954) long before she became a famous author in her own right, when she was just a young girl plucked from the Burgundy countryside by her showboating new husband Henry Gauthier-Villars (played by Dominic West) and plopped into Paris.
But while it's true that Jaws 4 has a threadbare script, clunky Michael Caine one-liners, Mario Van Peebles sporting a terrible Jamaican accent, and shark revenge, Jaws 21950-D also has, in addition to a threadbare script, a bevy of frolicking teenagers, an evil corporate conspiracy, an evil showboating scientist, obnoxious happy dolphins, and, oh yes, a shark terrorizing Sea World because Sea World killed its baby.
The aesthetic isn't so much James Bond–esque cool as it is markedly sexy; these guys are eye candy, and at the screening of The Golden Circle I attended, I was startled by how much giggling I heard each time one of the Kingsman or Statesman agents started doing a little showboating, as well as how the film—apart from that one scene—doesn't really offer any similar pandering to the male gaze.
Senior White House aide Omarosa Manigault accused members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) on Friday of "showboating" and refusing to serve their constituents, after the lawmakers refused an invitation to meet with President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE.
Most actors say that it's more fun to play the villain, and you get the sense that the writers are similarly having a little too much fun scripting ridiculous, showboating dialogue for Negan, just as the directors keep framing him in appreciative close-ups and lingering one-shots, like he's the tortured antihero in a blood-soaked western, not a murderous control freak who gets off on mentally torturing women and children — even if he hilariously draws the line at killing them.

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