Splashy means to make a big, showy, or attention-grabbing impression or impact, often involving a lot of noise or excitement.
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Over the course of the last year, there have been plenty
of splashy new gallery openings in downtown Los Angeles, including some whose exhibition halls can be measured by the acre.
Pulling the affixed plastic tab away removes the sleeve and unveils the Flip itself, a tubular speaker
in splashy red, housed in a standard foam casing.
Let the competition go after new clients
with splashy ad campaigns and fancy trade show presentations, says Greg Sutter, Datastream's vice president of marketing.
For example, the fact that pythons were breeding in the wilds of the Everglades made
for splashy headlines and even a regular series on the National Geographic Wild channel.
Habit Restaurants, Pollo Loco and Zoe's Kitchen have all made
splashy debuts in the past year.
To succeed, you need a vast array of content options and multi-media divisions while continuously looking to improve even after
making splashy acquisitions.
Curious about the big
splashy new NPR education story about education funding that just rolled out this week, telling us how massive the funding inequalities are between states and among districts in the same states?
He enjoys fundraising and holding
splashy events with fat cat contributors.
Last week provided no shortage of
big splashy headline stories, from yet another high - profile personnel shakeup at the White House to a nail - biter special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, from Russia's alleged nerve agent attack on a former double - agent spy to a tragic bridge collapse in Miami.
The low - key Assembly minority leader said Cuomo is too much of a politician and spends too much time
on splashy photo ops and economic development ideas that he said haven't worked.
You don't have to launch ebooks with a big
splashy launch and a «tour».
Ritchie directs with an affection for sixties gimmickry both in terms of spy technology and filmmaking flourishes, splashing the film with multi-panel split screens (done digitally but evoking optical effects), zooms and whip pans, and the kind of
splashy color that reminds us it's all a fantasy.
Despite
splashy headlines of jackpot justice, most plaintiffs who win in tort cases only receive modest awards.
A recap of Berlin Gallery weekend, which involves over 50 local galleries coordinating their openings, points out the following trends: guest artist curators, the term post-internet art apparently falling out of favor, and
splashy shows by local photographers like Wolfgang Tillmans at Galerie Buchholz.
Xiaomi began with
splashy campaigns, let the products do the talking, literally established the «community model» here, and then slowed things down.
And though there was no acquisition
as splashy as the $ 17.5 million shelled out for The Birth of a Nation last year, some of the biggest stories told at Sundance 2017 were well outside of Hollywood's usual homogeny, and give viewers plenty of reasons to be excited for the year in cinema outside of the expected superheroes, sequels, and superhero sequels.
Past the mid-way point, the Cannes market is shaping up decently with a handful of
splashy deals for commercial and prestige - art house fare.
Tencent IS making a series of investments in Western companies that are significant, but
not splashy.
Add to that several high - profile upstate economic development projects that have stalled
after splashy groundbreakings touting game - changing and transformational ventures.
Over the last few years, streaming networks (particularly Netflix and Amazon) primarily known for their TV output have strived to make inroads into the film world with
splashy acquisitions.
A collection of 116 recipes from Tampa Bay cooks and chefs, ranging
from splashy party dishes to vegetarian main dishes to simple weeknight dinners.
I know it upsets some of y ’ all that your favorite team didn't make any big
splashy moves in the priority signing period, but there are many factors for that, including having no cap space.
The Tour leader in tournaments played last year (35), Donald, 34, made everything and anything on his way to a 64, tying Lloyd Mangrum's 1940 record for
splashiest opening round at the tournament.
So cue PR dept for bug
splashy press release to dispel that with pronouncements so far in the future as to be meaningless.
The exhibition may be introduced with
splashy red walls, but the labels — many of those for individual works run to more than 200 words — use words like «non-mimetic.»
On the strength of a guest appearance on radio's Fred Allen Show, he was signed to an MGM contract in 1946, appearing prominently in such
splashy musicals as Two Sisters From Boston, This Time for Keeps, and Luxury Liner.
Either way, if its performance holds up, we can probably expect
more splashy debuts in very short order.
From posh pant suits which were all the rage, to
splashy floral prints, here are a few of our favorite red carpet looks.
But Ford is struggling to be heard
over splashier announcements from rivals like General Motors Co., which said last week that it will soon be testing self - driving Chevrolet Bolt electric cars in New York City.
I can't tell if the silence on their part is fear based on the criticism of their original plans, or if it's silence until they can do a big
splashy announcement, but my gut is that it's the former rather than them having some big way to sell us on it as anything other them dipping - into the other console's cash flow they feel they've been missing out on.
McTiernan, regrettably, seems more interested in spectacle than suspense, and the attack sequences are filmed for
splashy visual impact.
3, 2011, at Pace Beijing, is an appropriately
splashy entrance into what looks like something of a new phase in the Los Angeles - based artist's career.
In a fall season dominated
by splashier productions, This Is Our Youth, like Straub himself, has been somewhat neglected and undervalued, but it deserves to be seen, especially for Cera's disarming performance.
With Amazon Elements» vitamins and supplements, each product gets a big,
splashy marketing page that details the item's origins and contents.
Though the Joan Mitchell Center has made no secret of itself, it also has tried to gently integrate into the Crescent City art scene, avoiding big
splashy parties or profile - raising concerts in the quiet neighborhood.
Although they represent the advertiser's interests, they're displayed as actual stories or videos rather than
splashy ads, so they pass through ad blockers.
Shots were returned and, as is so often the case in our time, an otherwise stimulating conversation devolved
into splashy mudslinging over sexuality.
The Guerrilla Girls, a group of artists who use
splashy design to offer their opinions on gender and racial discrimination in the art world, gave us their take on museums in Washington.
Fixed the issue where graphical effect of a loot drop was not displayed intermittently when popping
Splashy Water Balloon in Ellie's Mystical Lake.
All of which is great news for the DIY - er, because it couldn't be simpler to add metal accents or easier to make a big
splashy statement with a metal embellished wallpaper — all without breaking the budget.
Here she's working on a much larger canvas, and putting the pieces together with skill, but she seems to have traded in a certain amount of directorial personality in exchange for big and
splashy set pieces.
Called Pulse, this event is YouTube's version of upfronts, that time of year when traditional television networks
hold splashy events, trot out their stars and pitch advertisers on upcoming programming.
The company has never made big bucks or huge
splashy products, it's just there, marching along inevitably.
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The low - key Assembly Minority Leader says Cuomo is too much of a politician, and spends too much time on
splashy photo ops and economic development ideas that he says haven't worked.
«Following the Jackson Pollock drippy
splashy thing, this was a new approach to abstracting in war based Europe.»
Battles are a hands - off auto - pilot formality 95 % of the time, flashing by in real time with a maximum of
splashy effects onscreen, as colorful, pointless, and epilepsy inducing as a Pokemon cartoon.
Photo via MotorTrend VW's 2011 Touareg Hybrid The 2010 Geneva Motor Show was filled with so many
splashy auto announcements — Porsche's first ever plug - in hybrid, a new Audi mini-car, new EV concepts aplenty, etc — that when Volkswagen unveiled its first