Sentence examples for display of gifts from inspiring English sources

The red silk skirt was not a gift from the palace, although itwas included in the fine royal display of gifts.

At Osborne House, Queen Victoria's country home on the Isle of Wight (about 75 miles south of London, including an hour's ferry ride from Southampton), there will be a display of gifts that the queen, who was made Empress of India in 1876, received from the Indian people.

Kobe asked there be no public display of gifts at his last game.

Normally this combined display of gifts for children and old ladies mixed with deadly weapons, sex toys, and pornography would be a little creepy.

The New Yorker, July 14 , 1962P. 22 Mercantile Intelligence: A display of wedding gifts at Tiffany's contains two packages wrapped in Cartier paper.

By Caroline Halpern and Burton Bernstein The New Yorker, July 14 , 1962P. 22 Mercantile Intelligence: A display of wedding gifts at Tiffany's contains two packages wrapped in Cartier paper.

Soon, she was on to a display of diplomatic-gift pins.

Especially when her subjects are performers, she is likely to treat them as sculptural opportunities to incite them to extravagant displays of their gifts.

Shostakovich, who was 20 when he began the opera in 1927, responded with a peacock display of his prodigious gifts, a richly inventive score that in retrospect seems to have accurately predicted many of the directions of his work to come.

" When Hathaway sings the line, moving it down to the sweet spot of his baritone, he turns the song's funkified "Nutcracker" vibe toward sensual R. & B. The song, like an intricate snow globe, suspends several musical elements in a dreamy display of Hathaway's gifts — at its center is a barrelhouse acoustic piano solo christened by elegant strings.

"She Got to You" starts with what sounds like a rock drum fill, before morphing into a samba in which Spalding dresses down a lover who spurned her, singing, "Damn — that's cold!" Some critics thought the record was an almost too exuberant display of Spalding's gifts.