She was nearing middle age, with no significant professional, artistic, or romantic prospects.
According to scholar Colin G. Crisp, "Anxiety about resuscitating the flow of silent films was frequently expressed in the [French] industrial press, and a large section of the industry still saw the silent as a viable artistic and commercial prospect till about 1935".
Until 2014-era cynicisetsets in: funding is cut and all prospects of artistic grandeur are dashed on the altar of public policy.
Serge had been lured by the prospect of artistic freedom; Lina, an aspiring soprano and socialite, by Soviet promises of a singing career and a life of glamour.
International curators, museum and gallery directors, auction-house specialists and eager investors descended on Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, thrilled by the prospect of exploring uncharted artistic waters.
The programme was casually discussed over dinner with Alistair Spalding, artistic director of Sadler's Wells, but the prospect was daunting.
In flowing days and evenings of lunches and parties with friends and neighbors, Marie and Faye talk through and play out shudderingly big questions — the prospect of marriage and children, the artistic calling, the weight of family history.
The announcement that John E McGrath - currently director and chief executive of Contact in Manchester - will become the first artistic director of National Theatre Wales from January 2009, brings the prospect of a Welsh National Theatre closer to reality.
This was not a fringe film that rose to the top, but a viable and popular commercial prospect that was embraced by the artistic community as well as the audience.
At the same time, and without making a deconstructionist meal of it, the production suggests that very prospect encroaching upon the three surpassingly clever artistic temperaments whose best running gag is themselves.
