Sentence examples for big curtain from inspiring English sources

"On the big curtain paint the troublemaking/ Dove of peace of my brother Picasso... " In 1950, the poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht decorated his theatre in East Berlin with Picasso's anti-war bird, the symbol of the international Peace Movement.

"Three Sisters" takes much from the music of Boulez, Lachenmann, Nono and Stockhausen, but there is a much older operatic tradition in the long legato lines of the singing parts and the use of ensembles, which occasionally resemble the big curtain numbers of Verdi.

It basically emits a radio wave—"a big curtain of noise"—that overpowers the normal mobile phone frequency.

Finally, take a big curtain or something similar, and put it on the side pole of the trampoline.

A simple but gorgeous stage set flanked the performers with big curtains of circular pendants that formed an illuminated screen.

"Everything else," he said, "has been resurfaced or redone to restore it to a more high-style version of the 60's". He grouped hanging lamps ("from schlock to George Nelson"), reconfigured the vinyl banquettes and had big curtains made out of a retro-style fabric.

Skipping down glamour's yellow brick road are straw editors and tin men, believing what they believe, while lurking behind the big curtains of Paris and Seventh Avenue, surrounded by vigilant monkey publicists, are gods waiting to be condemned as mere mortals.

The pop star's big curtain-raiser, arriving a few years after her return-to-spotlight album "Britney Jean," was, of course, a spectacle.

And so Xi's visit to Florida is about to give the Sunshine State its biggest curtain call yet.

At the border with Zimbabwe, the Zambezi River drops 108 metres, creating the world's biggest curtain of water at 1,708 metres wide.

It was the biggest curtain-call pratfall in baseball history.