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something that is strikingly attractive or has great popular appeal
the brilliant orange flowers against the green foliage were a showstopper
she has a show-stopper of a smile - an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down
How To Use show-stopper In A Sentence
- This is slightly harder to do, but with practice it makes an excellent show-stopper and a great way to win a pig.
- Her breathily sexy aria with Creonte (an excellent Iestyn Davies) was one of several show-stoppers. Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio
- A high spot was definitely a young cellist, Stefan Handjiev, in National Radio's Christmas Concert - an absolute show-stopper.
- Sheldon is a recognized birding site. Various species of mammals, amphibians and reptiles are common, and not the least of the show-stoppers is the American alligator.
- His masterpiece to date is his American Rose beaded V-neck shift dress, a combination of nine colours, which was a show-stopper at MAFW '04.
- If Broadway show tunes are your thing, the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra & the Arvada Chorale give us show-stoppers from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Leonard Bernstein after a heart-stopping performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Tracy Shaffer: Arvada Alive With Music
- All the talent in them went into the songs and the dialogue was left to stretch unnaturally between show-stoppers.
- Radiation could perhaps be a show-stopper because the environment in space - there's galactic cosmic rays.
- So Moulin Rouge's premise seems enticing at first, a musical that lives through popular rock songs, just as the musicals of their time were often written around show-stoppers already making the nightclub rounds.
- Maybe thin, shaky male voices will come into style, but I was hoping more for a real show-stopper that never came.
