Sentence examples for divine actors from inspiring English sources

In all three forms there is a relatively fixed form to the ritual: a procession that conveys the divine actors to the marriage celebration; an exchange of gifts; a purification of the pair; a wedding feast; a preparation of the wedding chamber and bed; and the secret, nocturnal act of intercourse.

The people fast and pray, so God's existence is implied, but there is no Divine actor on stage.

Like Benyamina and Amamra, nearly all of "Divines" 's actors grew up in the banlieue; many of them came up through 1000 Visages, an organization that Benyamina founded, in 2006, to present filmmaking workshops for young people.

From a Cabalist point of view, the Sefirot and the divine names are actors in dramas of theology, cosmology, anthropology and angelology whose major themes are exile, death, atonement and redemption, stories that Pico transposes onto the Christian Trinity, with Jesus Christ, the Messiah, as the saving hero.

The turning point is marked by a 1979 portrait of the transvestite actor Divine.

Every morning, Waters carefully shapes his moustache with Maybelline Velvet Black kohl; alongside Divine, the supporting actor in all his work is the eyeliner.

Unlike the 1988 film Hairspray, the original cinematic Cry-Baby was not enlivened by the presence of the marvellous and truly funny actor Divine, upon whom Waters' chief claims to film glory reside.

In "Hairspray," the spherical Mrs. Edna Turnblad (played by the male actor Divine) and her baby-blimp daughter, Tracy (Ricki Lake), come out of the Hefty Hideaway wearing mother-and-daughter dresses and walk down the street with their bosoms proudly preceding them.

By Pauline Kael In "Hairspray," the spherical Mrs. Edna Turnblad (played by the male actor Divine) and her baby-blimp daughter, Tracy (Ricki Lake), come out of the Hefty Hideaway wearing mother-and-daughter dresses and walk down the street with their bosoms proudly preceding them.

"Traditionally, the great musicals were based on plays, but the thing is we ran out of plays and we had to find something else to base them on," observed Margo Lion, the lead producer of "Hairspray," in which Harvey Fierstein and Marissa Jaret Winokur have been cast in the mother-daughter roles played on the screen by the transvestite actor Divine and Ricki Lake.

The piece juxtaposes two images shot from films on television, and contrasts a glamorous Divine (the cross-dressing actor who starred in Mr. Waters's early films) with a disheveled Elizabeth Taylor.