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

Mr Gething senior represents a generational and presentational leap from his predecessor Mark Drakeford.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2024

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

Here, the style is broadly presentational, with some dialogue spoken into stand microphones and other lines rendered without amplification.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2022