presentational
Example Sentences
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I find that playwrights are often at their liveliest when writing in a presentational mood.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
Part of the prompt for us was to find two bumbling “normies” in this world and show a clumsy reality to the way John and Jane interact, which seems more meander-y and less presentational.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2024
"Really anytime you have content, you also have these presentational and prioritisation choices that can be subject to suit."
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2023
In 2020, longtime military graphics collector Tim Hwang launched a Twitter account, @DefenseCharts, a feed “dedicated to the presentational aesthetics of the defense-industrial complex.”
From Slate • Feb. 8, 2023
One of the many wonderful aspects of “Secret Things” is how its eight dancers, mostly from the corps de ballet, emerge as distinctive personalities without being presentational.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2023