Sentence examples for gala affair from inspiring English sources
The simplest meal seems a gala affair when everyone is radiant and cheerful, whereas a long and elaborate meal served indoors is usually depressing".
But if the dance has become a more gala affair, its steps remain the same, in a ballet unlike any other.
Social figures, fashion magnates, models and actors, and rafts of the largely unsung fanned out their finery as they filed into the vaulted auditorium, transforming what might have been a melancholy hour into a certified social event — the kind of gala affair, in short, that Mr. Cunningham might have relished himself.
TMZ says the gala affair in France will come in about a month.
The formal opening in July 1895 was a gala affair with leading figures from all the neighbouring territories present, including Loch's successor Sir Hercules Robinson.
FORT WORTH — As a glance in almost any direction at the moment will show, musical institutions tend to open their seasons with formal, gala affairs.
Some of the funkier pieces, like "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" and every cut on "On the Corner," evoke the atmosphere of "player's balls," those underground gala affairs where the pimps and their entourage strut their stuff.
These dinners grew into the annual Power of Love Gala, an affair that stands out as over the top even in a city that holds Siegfried and Roy as royalty.
Here he conducts Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in four concerts -- the first a gala tribute affair, the other three with Brahms's "Schicksalslied" added -- to finish his last season.
Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra was as gala an affair as could ever be imagined in those golden years of classical music in America.
