(1) Jimmy Carter was not a flashy or showy President, but history judges him as one of America's greatest.(2) The Spanish press comments that she rarely wears jewels, preferring showy costume earrings, necklaces and trinkets.(3) Their weakness, if any, is that they fall easy prey to brand names and they would willingly go to any lengths just to be showy , extravagant and ostentatious.(4) Walking along a river's bend your eye is drawn to a rather large tree with showy white flowers.(5) So it's usually a success if you can see that it's sort of not a showy restaurant, and you feel like someone wants to sit across the table and enjoy dinner with you.(6) They irked her, distastefully bright and far too showy .(7) It seems an excessively showy , very nearly butler-ish display of reticence on everyone's part.(8) Bloomington is one of the archetypal college towns in the United States, from the gorgeous campus to the showy liberal politics.(9) The showy part of the flower is not the corolla but the modified calyx.(10) The design was simple and effective, neither being too flashy nor showy , proving the point that sometimes less is more.(11) I started using perennials and color bowls to add a vibrant rainbow of showy flowers.(12) The males are bright and showy while the hens are conservatively dressed.(13) The judges are looking for snaps and big cutbacks, all the showy point-scoring maneuvers of professional surfing today.(14) A variety popular because of its distinctive salmon pink colour is Marcus Graham, which features large, showy double flowers.(15) In my experience, treats from the sushi bar at Sakura tend to be nice, fresh, and reliable, if not particularly showy or ethereal.(16) There are countless examples of singer Eddie's bright, showy wit, and mini-tunes galore on an album which clocks in at a pleasing forty minutes or so.