Sentence examples for arresting stage from inspiring English sources

They prove better at creating arresting stage images than at generating theatrical tension, sometimes veering toward kitsch in the process.

And while Ms. Burstyn and in particular Mr. Glover are naturally arresting stage presences, sprinkling some inviting glimmers of authentic stage glamour over the proceedings, for the most part the acting is flat, or obvious, or both.

The play's many arresting stage pictures are annotated, designated and diagrammed as if one were looking through a book -- an anatomy text, atlas or technical manual -- rather than watching live theater.

But there are many tones in the Mexican jukebox, and many of the best resound from Ms. Downs, a mezzo-soprano with a three-octave range, a hungry mind and an arresting stage presence.

Here the audience sat on three sides of his spare, visually arresting stage, which was ringed by pale green adhesive strips like a track and bisected by a utilitarian catwalk (the artist Franklin Evans collaborated on design).

Mr. Alden and his set designer, Giles Cadle, have indeed produced some arresting stage images.

In any case, these nomads were looked down on — the other often is — as an intermediate or an arrested stage in cultural evolution.

Most of the follicles progress to apoptosis after exiting from the arrested stage of the cell cycle.

In arrested stage VI Xenopus oocytes, progesterone signaling induces strong cyclin B and c-mos (serine-threonine kinase) mRNA translation.

The dauer is a developmentally arrested stage triggered by food deprivation, high population density, and other harsh environmental conditions [ 26].

As a result, we detected 71 (40%) C. elegans miRNAs that exhibited differences in expression in the developmentally arrested stage compared with mixed-stage samples.