Sentence examples for face of stage from inspiring English sources

Michon writes that Banville resembled the stock character of Pierrot, the sad clown with a frilled shirt and painted face of stage comedies, and the image returns in "Masters and Servants," in a story narrated by an old curate whom Michon imagines modeled for Antoine Watteau's famous painting of Pierrot, which now hangs in the Louvre.

Those of us who love dance are sometimes haunted by the memory of a particular face on stage.

On the face of it stage 16 held all the drama and beauty that its admirers expect from this great institution.

Presented with a cake by the rest of the band to mark his 26th birthday, he rams it into the willing face of a stage-diver.

Kenan Evren, 94, the former head of the army, and Tahsin Sahinkaya, 86, the former air force commander, who were absent because of poor health, face charges of staging a coup to overthrow the civilian government, punishable by life imprisonment.

She wore a full face of makeup on stage, and she was fastidious about removing it after a performance.

Having never seen Profligate, I didn't know what to expect, but assumed I was in for some harsh noise by the seething face of Anthony on stage.

We have all been in the belly of the beast, which is where I find myself now in the face of my husband's stage 4 cancer diagnosis.

Ms. Linke and the powerful dancers, each with a face and stage presence of his own in this putatively faceless chorus, take the audience through an arduous journey.

On the face of it, the new staging of "Wonderful Town" that is about to open on Broadway does not look like much of a risk.

Bosch's great theme was human fallibility in the face of temptation the tenuous intermediary stages at which ordinary people make decisions, assailed by nefarious forces that might lead them astray.