How To Use Showstopper In A Sentence
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The cake was the real showstopper: two-tiered and dense with chocolate mousse and ganache.
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And for the final showstopper they have to make 49 bakes in five hours with only one oven each.
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Her natural creativity and artistic talent make her home a real showstopper.
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The line, a showstopper by any standard, was reinforced with impeccable finish and an eye for detail.
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How many romantic misunderstandings and happy-clappy showstoppers must we endure before longing for the curtain to drop in front of those beaming, ambitious faces?
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The onion soup is another showstopper, rich and sweet from caramelized onions.
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The great landscape abstractions from the late '50s and early '60s were the showstoppers in the last of the three large rooms.
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Clapton has covered the Johnson songbook throughout his career, most famously in ‘Crossroads’, his barnstorming showstopper when he was in Cream more than 30 years ago.
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But the showstopper is the 1,450-square-foot Robert Louis Stevenson Suite, with its front-to-back picture windows on three sides -- the joint has helicopter views from the bathtub.
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The upmarket style bible put Camilla in its ‘showstoppers’ category of women who know how to dress for a big occasion.
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Kevin Rudd is offering premiers an extra $1.2 billion to win support for his health plan but it remains contingent on a potential "showstopper" - handing over 30 per cent of their GST.
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So when a country with no tradition of musicals found itself needing chorus lines and showstoppers, Lambe was one of a new breed of stage performers capable of answering its call.
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Yet the showstopper is the most eccentric look: Mona Bismarck 's aqua green Balenciaga gown with sleeves of blooming pink petals from 1968.
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Over the years I had seen plants that were showstoppers; plants that made you examine them thoroughly; plants that made you find a book and read everything you could about them.
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And, for the showstopper, the bakers must make a perfect charlotte russe, otherwise known as an 'ice-box cake'.
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The accumulation of brilliant hues in simple but densely repeated geometric patterns made her entry a showstopper.
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There'll be wearing on parts of machinery, combat equipment and helicopters, but it will not be a showstopper.
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Formal evening gowns are elegant and can be showstoppers.
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And for the final showstopper they have to make 49 bakes in five hours with only one oven each.
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‘And The Hero Will Drown,’ ‘Burning Years’ and of course, ‘Anthem Of Our Dying Day’ are showstoppers.
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The showstopper was the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
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If, despite a low or nonexistent overhead, decent profits still manage to elude a microbusiness, that's not necessarily a showstopper.
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Blue-flowered ‘Ascotiensis’ is another showstopper, while pristine white ‘John Huxtable’ looks especially striking grown through an evergreen.
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So if you're after a real showstopper, this is the look for you.
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A real floor-length showstopper we would all love to get our mitts on.
The Sun
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In the main arena, bare-back riding daredevil Lorenzo, the Flying Frenchman, proved to be a showstopper as he performed equestrian stunts with his grey geldings.
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They have practised the signature and the showstopper bakes, but when they lift that checked cloth and look at the technical challenge, they are in agony.
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A real floor-length showstopper we would all love to get our mitts on.
The Sun
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Her natural creativity and artistic talent make her home a real showstopper.
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The real showstopper is Nathan Lane's ‘There's No Business Like Show Business.’
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Then there is the shy, self-effacing Chris, who electrifyingly takes over the stage, and, to my mind, sparks the whole proceedings with the showstopper, Old Fashioned Romance.
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Old double-winged aircraft and Spitfires practice their showstoppers over our valley before annual air shows.
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But of course, it's the big jaunty disco showstoppers at which she excels.
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None of these cultural differences is in and of itself a showstopper.
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Her natural creativity and artistic talent make her home a real showstopper.
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The showstopper was the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
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He easily holds his own with Kelly in their numbers together, and his ‘Make 'Em Laugh’ is a showstopper.
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Unless we come up with a new technology for storing hydrogen, it's a showstopper.
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We have now however heard from several other users who assure us this works on their handsets, so it seems not to be a universal showstopper.
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I am resplendent in scarlet tonight, a showstopper.
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They have practised the signature and the showstopper bakes, but when they lift that checked cloth and look at the technical challenge, they are in agony.
The Sun
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Her natural creativity and artistic talent make her home a real showstopper.
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Reworking Billy Idol's Dancing With Myself as a ratpack-style showstopper is a brilliant idea, the atmosphere of musical sophistication undercut by the fact that the song is about - and there's no polite way to put this - having a wank.
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The stage is then invaded by more children and the resulting musical number is a showstopper.
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Much like the original, the showstopper is the group zombie dance segment, but I gotta say, damn if a bunch of plastic bricks don’t make for a better actress than Ola Ray, too.
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But the showstopper is the aptly named globe of death, which sees men riding motorbikes inside a dome-like structure.
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It's a classic showstopper: dramatic, lavishly orchestrated, and catastrophically over-the-top.
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That was a great, showstopper performance.
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Andrea James: The most swingin 'aquatic showstopper in cinema history.
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However, Smith's one-woman Sound of Music medley was a showstopper, inspiring even my cynical self to join in lustily!
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The signature bake is filled iced buns and the showstopper involves classic British cakes.
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Kartano dresses old Finnish staple dishes in haute cuisine trimmings and their pan-fried fillet of reindeer is a showstopper.
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The conclusion of the review is that there are no potential "showstoppers" at this stage of the development plan.
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Handelian arias were either brilliant vocal displays or sustained sublime showstoppers.
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So if you're after a real showstopper, this is the look for you.
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The showstopper, a nearly 8-foot nude self-portrait, is overlaid with a sparse array of embossed, lozenge-shaped leaves impressed from both the front and back of the paper.
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Their recurved petals, lovely long stamens and distinctive center markings make Oriental lilies showstoppers in any floral arrangement.
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At first, cost seemed a showstopper.
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According to Pawelczyk, associate professor of kinesiology at Penn State, there are three major "showstoppers" that need to be addressed.
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Boubil and Schonberg created a score with countless showstoppers linked with recitative that is melodious and easily understood.
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The last definition is the showstopper for unions.
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The weather wasn't perfect, but I quickly was learning that what had been a showstopper in the RAG was daily business in the fleet.
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Following are simple professional tips from the Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center in New York City on how to turn any lily flower arrangement into a showstopper.
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And that's before the delicate tuile biscuit challenge and the slightly ridiculous showstopper - a biscuit tower.
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The term stable refers to a version of software that is substantially identical to a version that has been through enough real-world testing to reasonably assume there are no showstopper problems, or at least that any problems are known and documented.
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That's right, in a medium where male full-frontal nudity is hardly a showstopper any more.
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There aren't any showstoppers but there are lots of minor UI irritations.
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The challenges that remain are considered engineering tasks, not showstoppers.
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For sheer showstopper appeal, check out its exclusive hat collection by milliner to the stars Philip Treacy in the Autograph boutique, with prices from £125.
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Aside from the searing guitar riffs and angry-youth lyrics, there was not a particularly special moment or showstopper, as it were.
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It’s not often that the encore is truly a showstopper above and beyond the preceding program’s actual content, but it was here.
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In the winter though - when its structure and the almost knurled twisting of its branches are more evident - the bur oak is a showstopper.
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I ran into a number of difficulties, but none of them were showstoppers.
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Aguilar also found differences between the way the two countries conduct business, but no showstoppers.
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The statue has become a showstopper for hordes of shoppers.
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the brilliant orange flowers against the green foliage were a showstopper
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The initial excitement quickly turned to sensational headlines about a "showstopper" or critical bug that may put a damper on the Windows 7 excitement.
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The showstopper was the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
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His concerts remained vibrant, pulsating showstoppers, rock as it was meant to be.
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The bad news is there's a bug, described as a showstopper.
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When the beta testers can't find any more showstoppers or the developers can no longer face fixing them or the marketing team has booked loads of advertising, the developers create "release candidates".
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The redevelopment will comprise 32 apartments, ranging in price from £250,000 to the £1.25m showstopper.
