People are discontented, it would seem, with the White House, and talk of replacing it with a larger and showier edifice.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
"He might have harvested quicker and showier results here, but he wanted to be identified with his own people.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
"A venerable woman, inspired of certain magic wisdom, which she wove into the texture, to the exclusion of the showier qualities, designed it at the age of threescore years and three short of another score.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc