Sentence examples for devil of a dance from inspiring English sources
In 1932, the year before Noël Coward's "Design for Living" — his then scandalous tale of an insouciant ménage à trois — was first mounted in New York, Coward wrote the song "Let's Live Dangerously," which captured in two lines the spirit that took him two windy acts to incarnate: "Let's live boisterously, boisterously, roisterously / Let's lead moralists the devil of a dance".
By John Lahr In 1932, the year before Noël Coward's "Design for Living" — his then scandalous tale of an insouciant ménage à trois — was first mounted in New York, Coward wrote the song "Let's Live Dangerously," which captured in two lines the spirit that took him two windy acts to incarnate: "Let's live boisterously, boisterously, roisterously / Let's lead moralists the devil of a dance".
He was desperate, and decided to try a local remedy - performance of a devil dance.
Today the most prominent dances of Venezuela are the many versions of the morisca on Christian holidays and a dance of medieval devils on Corpus Christi.
Former Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold (D) termed Obama's embrace of the super PAC system a "dance with the devil".
Although I managed to be relatively productive and cheerful in this environment, I started to contemplate a dance with the devil--corporate science--around the end of my postdoc in 1999.
A 15th-century chronicle describes the Bal des Ardents as una corea procurance demone ("a dance to ward off the devil").
Snyder's regular invocation of "politics" is meant to illuminate this devil's dance of impossibilities.
