Sentence examples for a failed dancer from inspiring English sources

One character is a failed dancer but an inspired chef.

"I'm a failed dancer," she added, with the air of a woman who fails at nothing.

For Nina, the impossible reflects the demands of her smothering mother, a failed dancer herself who seeks vicarious fulfillment through her daughter.

At one point, Edie, a failed dancer and Norma Desmond sort, slaps a makeshift piece of fabric around her pantyhose, attaches a safety pin in front and declares her intent to wear it also as a cape.

The first child of a drug-abusing, felonious stock trader and a failed dancer, Lohan survived her Long Island childhood, moved to Hollywood and became America's newest sweetheart with winning turns in "The Parent Trap" and "Mean Girls".

Many of us are failed dancers living vicariously through our talented offspring; looking back, I find something embarrassingly "Black Swan -like in the way I drew Swan -likeon from my son thrining athehe Royal Ballet School — the very place wayre I'drewlt satisfaction inadequate.

Barbara Bordnick began taking close-ups of flowers two years ago, when a dancer failed to arrive for a photo shoot and she turned her Canon EOS D30 on Oriental lilies instead.

Sad to say, Karina Michaels, an agile dancer, fails to suggest glamour makeover potential or a torrid star-in-the-making, even when she is exploiting her sexuality, big time, in the second act.

Christie's had estimated it would sell for $12 million to $16 million on Tuesday night".Anita en Almée" (1908), a sexually charged painting by Kees Van Dongen of a topless woman with veils whose title invokes the Near Eastern "almah," or belly dancer, failed to sell.

More often than not, their dancers failed to make connections, fell repeatedly and were hemmed in by darkness or closed doors.

But he knew that those measures had failed to relieve the dancer's pain.