Sentence examples for for theatrical effect from inspiring English sources

Indeed, the house lights were turned off for theatrical effect.

"Anthrax?" he said, and then paused as if for theatrical effect.

Light was also at the root of the technical innovation of the fashion and advertising photographs, for which he made unprecedented use of electric lamps for theatrical effect.

It's a show that is charming and funny by turns, and deceptively sophisticated in the way it uses silhouette and shadows for theatrical effect.

Its spirited rhythm occurs in the finale of Amilcare Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours and in many ballets, where the basic ballroom step is elaborated for theatrical effect.

For most of his operas Leoncavallo was his own librettist and showed a distinct literary ability and a flair for theatrical effect.

The effect is startlingly beautiful, a quick wash of theatrical effect that makes its previous absence all the more stark.

FOR sheer theatrical effect, it is hard to beat Arnaud Montebourg.

Mr. Powell has a sure eye for the theatrical effect of ranks of dancers who disperse and re-form continuously.

For a theatrical effect, a spotlight illuminates metallic thread and rhinestones on Titania and Oberon costumes from a children's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Pimlott and West never muted the character's fatal penchant for choosing theatrical effect over political expediency; whoever the director and the actor, Richard remains a king whose instinctive response to every crisis is to make a drama out of it.