Sentence examples for ball scenes from inspiring English sources

The ball scenes beat Tchaikovsky but that is not the point.

More attack and focus could lift these numbers, but the Royal Ballet corps move dutifully through the Russian dances and ball scenes.

The story begins with choreographed street confrontations between the warring Montagues and Capulets and elegantly stylized dancing at the Capulets' ball, scenes that almost suggest the leisure of a lavish ballet.

But nowadays the CGI tricks can do an even better job of filling the screen to the horizon, and Bondarchuk's ball scenes, teeming with costumes donated by all the museums of Russia, can be matched even in the eyes of those of us who saw his movie back there, at the height of the cold war, and thought: hell, they might win.

"None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar, 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them," Tarantino said to huge laughs – and a few audible gasps – from the audience.

Inviting a gaggle of artists to design these may seem a superficial bit of outmoded British art boosting, but in reality it is a romantic restatement of the Olympic ideal, inviting artists to imagine the forces of human effort and natural capacity that have always made sport a theme for modern art (think of cubist portraits of cyclists and Picasso's beach ball scenes).

The ball scene becomes a full-theater party, with confetti cannons fired from the upper balconies.

Consider, for example, Romeo's costume for the big ball scene when he meets Juliet.

The scene has the terrifying power of the ball scene in Vincente Minnelli's adaptation of "Madame Bovary".

All I can think of now is Rob Smyth and Lawrence Booth doing the volley ball scene from Top Gun.

He almost overbalances the picture, especially with the daft way he claps along at the obligatory ball scene.