Sentence examples for colossal stage from inspiring English sources

In Murnau's fantastic visions, the clash of town and country is also that of the enduring medieval and the shockingly modern, and the glass palaces of his city, especially the Coney-Island-like pleasure dome as seen through the eyes of the amazed couple, are even now astonishingly spectacular — the sort of sumptuous, colossal stage mechanism that was the glory of the early cinema.

On Friday she steps into Jack O'Brien's colossal staging at the Met.

Racing back and forth across the truly colossal Colosseum stage (it is 120 feet wide) Ms. Midler showers the audience in tart patter — she laments that she's got an adjustable rate mortgage on the place — and introduces her latest trio of backup singers, the Harlettes (2.0? 3.0? 12.0?), and the 20 leggy chorines who back them up.

This colossal event, staged in the specially built Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, was full of new-gothic, neo-Renaissance, neo-everything nightmares of bad design and ponderous art.

The capital-spending boom has now entered the colossal-bust stage.

"This is a live recording of an Amnesia Scanner performance done a few weeks ago, capturing the slow and violent progression of a colossal music festival stage taking on the role of the performer.

The project, which will see five "living sculptures", a 30-strong band and an army of a hundred drummers sharing the Barbican stage, is colossal in scale, and when I meet Shechter at Gormley's north London studio, he tells me that the piece's themes are those which have long preoccupied him.

As the Commonwealth Games in Delhi unfold, it is worth asking whether the aggravation and scrutiny that come with staging such colossal events is worth the time, money and effort.

+ An empty 112-meter-high gas tank became the cylindrical stage for a colossal light installation.

But once you get the connection, you've set the stage for one colossal reserve of mental energy this side of the Grand Canyon. 1. Things are not always what they seem in relationships.

But The Impressionist, at this stage, is still a colossal gamble.