Sentence examples for curtain one from inspiring English sources

Speaking to my reflection in her dressing room mirror at the Eugene O'Neill Theater about an hour before curtain one evening, Ms. Krakowski begins to put on her face.

When he emerged from behind the courtroom's velvet curtain one morning in 1995 sporting four gold stripes on each sleeve of his robe — with some of his colleagues struggling to suppress smiles — many people saw pomposity, but I saw a wry or maybe even self-mocking comment on the boredom of basic black after 23 years on the court.

[C8.] Looking Behind Economy's Curtain One expanding field of research looks behind the assumptions on which the modern economy is based, studying how people arrange their affairs, how they create institutions to govern their relationships and how those institutions contribute to or hinder growth.

At the final curtain, one theatergoer simply said, "I felt cheated".

By the final curtain, one character even finds it possible to define love in one simple sentence.

In recent times, since the collapse of the iron curtain, one might have imagined separation walls would be less in vogue.

"Tomorrow's hearing will begin to pull back the curtain on one of the most shameful chapters of this Congress: a stolen vote on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, Housee Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said yesterday.

ALLAN LEIGHTON is to leave his post as chairman of Sir Philip Green's retail chain BHS, bringing down the curtain on one of the most high-profile business relationships of the last five years.

When he sold the label to MGM in 1960 for $2.5m it seemed to draw the curtain on one of the most memorable periods of American jazz and social history.

That's my next goal". Tuesday's performance did, however, bring down the curtain on one aspect of Dujardin's career.

Andrew Strauss's decision to retire from all forms of cricket brought down the curtain on one of the finest England careers.