Whatever was not problematical and suspected about this young man--for example, a certain
showiness as to foreign ideas, and a disposition to unsettle what had been settled and forgotten by his elders-- was positively unwelcome to a physician whose standing had been fixed thirty years before by a treatise on Meningitis, of which at least one copy marked "own" was bound in calf.
It is especially in the critiques of the paintings that this tension is enacted, since the many references to the painters' "mannered, overwrought style" and "
showiness" that stems from their deliberate "effort of transcendence" is repeatedly contrasted to the austerity of classical art (Banville 1998, 76).
It is, therefore, inexcusable, that in this day and age of widely affordable mediums of transportation and communication, those who traverse the face of the earth supposedly continuing the work of Jesus, are given to needless flamboyance and
showiness, with a special knack for joining the propertied class, while their congregations are mostly urged to live modestly and cast their thoughts away from the things of the world.
This is show business in all its
showiness and business, a domain that thrived on intrigues that were as false as its significant films were about truths.
As the Pope, often praised for his lack of
showiness, arrived at the lustrous Presidential palace in Abu Dhabi in his humble Kia Soul car, in a convoy of much larger and opulent vehicles, it was the beginning of a new dawn.
The
showiness of the risk involved with your daughter's hobby of choice does not change this fundamental truth.
The above is actually a spot-on example of the hollow
showiness with helicopters laid on that has suddenly become the trend.
Despite (or maybe because of) its complete lack of substance (there were few actual Jews present for the ceremony) and laughable
showiness (Noah processed through town dressed in an ermine robe, styling himself a "Judge of Israel"), the spectacle of September 2, 1825, embodies the often strained quality of Jewish thinking on the subject of America.
Although this means it can't offer quite as much dance from these roles, what might be lost in technical
showiness is made up for in real charm.
This is because, for all the
showiness in his narrative gambits and his deconstruction of cinematic tropes, Haneke's direction tends to recede into the background.
"But coming up to Christmas I was looking for
showiness and meat and the steer had that in abundance."