"And that handsome bauble: where did you secure so showy a piece?"

It is curious piece of furniture, small, precious, showy and partly recycled.

Most of them were showy pieces, huge creatures with long manes and tails, rejected from some noble warrior's string.

Possibly turned out by the cabinetmaker William Hook of Salem, Mass., it's a showy piece that suggests the influence of the British architect and furniture designer Robert Adam.

The Rachmaninoff is a showy piece technically, and the Schubert is just a beautiful piece.

The Sonata for Flute and Harp (1986) by Jindrich Feld is a breezy, atmospheric, slightly showy piece and not especially involving.

U Map This is the spot to deck yourself out in Miami-style jewelry: blingy, Scarface -showy pieces that let everyone know you've got it, and by God you will flaunt it.

I reasoned that women always like jewelry, and that such a showy piece might be of service to an actress in playing some part or other, and that the coins must have a good deal of intrinsic value.

Mr. Mehta describes it as "a very showy piece for the orchestra, and traditional in the sense that it will be accessible to a public that is not used to too much avant-garde music."

It wasn't a showy piece and cost only $30, but it reminded her of the desert country she and her family used to explore around Alice Springs.