Sentence examples for expected coward from inspiring English sources

The self-absorbed and often distracted hostess and her many friends expected Coward and the other performers to sing for their supper.

Don't expect Noël Coward bite from Ernst Lubitsch's trifle DESIGN FOR LIVING (1933).

"THE week with Lynn and Alfred was, as expected, perfect," Noël Coward wrote in his diary in December 1966.

"Why", asked Coward, "am I always expected to wear a dressing-gown, smoke cigarettes in a long holder and say 'Darling, how wonderful'?" The answer lay in Coward's assiduous cultivation of a carefully crafted image.

Impressed by his acting skills and his ability to improvise popular tunes on the piano, most expected him to become a new Noël Coward.

This is why the fool is a stock character of comedy along with the coward, who is especially funny if he expected to be as courageous as a lion or a captain:.

This is why the fool is a stock character of comedy along with the coward, who is especially funny if he expected to be as courageous as a lion or a captain: Show me the funny!

In many ways, this is the Coward we expect to see at the end, but Jenkins' telling of it, reminiscent of Christopher Isherwood's superb A Single Man, saves it from any hint of predictability.

Putting heart aside, Coward constructed a highly efficient laugh machine, sheathed in the satiny sophistication his audiences expected of him.

What could a jury be expected to think upon hearing a lady who had slain her husband assert that when the coward struck her she saw mauve, or that everything went beige?

"But what else can you expect when you have prostitutes and cowards as politicians".