Sentence examples for banquet without from inspiring English sources

"We were thinking of a Chinese banquet, without the wedding part," Mr. Li said, adding, however, that they both were very hopeful that same-sex marriage would be legal in New York by then.

Freud spoke of "His Majesty the Child", a brat whose every screeching whim is catered to by sycophantic parents; here the scene is less neurotic, and the young absolutists, with grown-ups stationed behind their chairs like courtiers, gaze at the banquet without gobbling it up.

Referring to this demand for his attention, he once wrote that he was "a florist in verse, and what would people say / If I came to a banquet without my bouquet?" As critic Hyatt Waggoner noted, however, "very little ... survives the occasions that produced it".

Attending banquets without giving is not an option, she says.

They were not subject to the regulation of the guilds; therefore, they could cater weddings and banquets without restriction.

It's a credit to his agility as a performer that he can execute all the empty gestures of Turner's production — donning a silly drum-major uniform, taking cover inside a toy fort, delivering soliloquies while standing on a giant banquet table — without ever losing the interior thread of a scene.

Years ago, every hotel featured green-turtle soup; no banquet was complete without terrapin.

For many Chinese-Americans, no wedding banquet is complete without a serving of squab, a young pigeon that is slaughtered before it can fly.

In 1959 she created a performance piece for a group of close friends in Bern Spring Feastt ("Frühlingsfest"), an elaborate banquet that Oppenheim served (without silverware) on the body of a nude woman laid out on a long table.

The composition engages the senses and turns a still life into a dynamic one, a banquet in progress, even without humans.

Meanwhile, he entertained them with stories, anecdotes from their New Delhi social world — hungry kites swooping over an open-air banquet, new, palatial apartment buildings without electricity or water, the Ayurvedic doctor poking his tented patients through their burkas, the dire results of a homeopath mixing up his aphrodisiacs with his laxatives.