Sentence examples for gala occasion from inspiring English sources

Assoap operas go this was a gala occasion.

No expense had been spared to make this a gala occasion.

I imagine it may have clashed uneasily with the gala occasion: Fleming's Nobel acceptance speech for co-discovering penicillin.

Imagine fruitcake in liquid form, and lay in a bottle or two for the Christmas and New Year's festivities -- or for any gala occasion, for that matter.

There is one more Madrid derby to come but this was the last real gala occasion at the Calderón, a balmy, thunderous New Orleans-style street funeral after a fond 50 years.

Also attending the gala occasion were Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse, Lady Antonia Fraser, the Tate's director Sir Nicholas Serota and the former archbishop of Canterbury, Lord (Rowan) Williams.

Gala occasions epitomise everything that is strong about the Scottish game.

This was not the way the oligarch dreamed his team would play on such gala occasions, and Di Matteo would soon be paying the price for the nature of his success.

It was about this time, in the late 18th century, that painter Francisco de Goya (1746 1828), who had sketched scores of bullfighting scenes in his La tauromaquia series, designed a distinctive professional uniform for bullfighters (worn only on commemorative gala occasions in Goya-style corridas, or corridas goyescas).

The epochal symbolism on these gala occasions is often rich.

But a gala is no occasion for deficit spending.