For him, this happened during a ball, where his dance card was refused by a southern white girl simply because he was black: "Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like [them perhaps] in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil".
His flair for the lurid can be exquisite, as in the nearly campy scene in which Addington, during a ball at Fort Edmonton, taunts Charles by kissing Lucy on the mouth, then retreats to his room to smear his body with mercury -- his syphilis regimen.
In the film's final showdown between Dom and Brian, on an isolated stretch of LA street not unlike the one where Paul Walker met his end IRL, Toretto's mantra of living his life "a quarter mile at a time" ends up biting him in the ass during a balls-out drag race.
Once, I switched the bar TV during a ball game to Turner Movie Classics.
Stańczyk (, English: Stańczyk during a ball at the court of Queen Bona in the face of the loss of Smolensk) is a painting by Jan Matejko finished in 1862.
The full title of the painting is Stańczyk w czasie balu na dworze królowej Bony wobec straconego Smoleńska (Stańczyk during a ball at the court of Queen Bona in the face of the loss of Smolensk).
In front of a suddenly uneasy audience at Court 1, Pete Sampras revealed questionable judgment and taste today during his interaction with a ball boy during his third-round victory.
He tore ligaments in his thumb diving for a ball during the World Baseball Classic.
Kowalski's niece Alexa, 13 at the time, was grazed in the arm by a ball during warm-ups.
With one out, Mike Lowell homered off Komiyama, whose request for a ball during the delay was refused, according to Valentine.
As an opening batsman, the Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes, who has died aged 25 after being struck by a ball during a Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground, was very much a product of the frantic modern era.
