Is it better to put your culinary talents (and your dirty pots, alas) on display for all to see, or is it better to direct your guests to a separate dining room where -- ta-da!
Similarly, Michael Owen tried to underplay the High Brahmin, but, alas, public displays of overwhelming lust and jealousy are no occasion for restraint, subtlety or good taste.
The 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans is, alas, a virtuoso display of linguistic contortionism to remove from the nation's official nutrition policy document the actionable clarity of the DGAC at every opportunity.
Mr. Riley painted portraits — or, depending on your perspective, mug shots — of all 50, which detailed their efforts (Pierre completed his mission; Minnie, alas, was lost at sea) to display and sell at the gallery.
A committee of the great and the good seems to loom.Then, alas, there was a second David Cameron on display today.
MUNDO ALAS A group of artists, musicians and dancers display their talents on a tour of Argentina, led by the locally famous singer-songwriter Léon Gieco, in a documentary directed by Mr. Gieco, Fernando Molnar and Sebastián Schindel.
In the play's brightest sequence — also, alas, its first — Paul displays his skills as an eliminator of unnecessary words by ruthlessly paring away the fat in correspondence from the head of the private school where his troublesome daughter, Harper (Colby Minifie), has been parked.
As a king, Lear is given to display, to making large, grandiloquent pronouncements and also, alas, to soliciting them.
At any rate, it wasn't any of the crazy new bistable displays we've been seeing at trade shows (alas).
