Sentence examples for grand scenes from inspiring English sources

Elroy and Clare's relationship contains remarkable moments of kindness -- not in showy grand scenes but in small gestures, in bitten tongues, in the silent lowering of expectations.

Similarly, instead of embracing folk-music-inspired soulfulness, Taneyev caromed from grand scenes thickly redolent of Wagner, Verdi, Meyerbeer and Gounod to striking passages inspired by Handelian oratorios and Mozart's "Don Giovanni," punctuated with fleeting, arresting inventions all his own.

The usual line on Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1943 film "DAY OF WRATH" is that it's a masterpiece, distinguished by its grand scenes (love, death, religion, the supernatural) and auteurist signatures (chiaroscuro lighting, gliding camera movements, deliberate pacing).

Once it might have made a grand scene in a funny novel, but not now.

But it cannot be shown by some grand scene or speech.

It is singularly effective, however, and, after an impressive scene for Aida alone, is followed by the grand scene of consecration.

There were also good reviews, with Peter Prescott of Newsweek praising Mr. Epstein's "storytelling prowess" and "extraordinary ability to roll from one grand scene to another".

Ermione's grand scene in Act II is a probing portrait of a single heart riven by the conflicting drives toward love and vengeance.

And so, fairly early in Neil Marshall's new film, "Centurion," we approach the one grand scene: the slaughter of the legion, ambushed on the floor of a wooded valley.

The affected paragraph, alluding to remarks at a news conference by a lawyer opposed to giving custody of Elian Gonzalez to his father, should have read: "Once it might have made a grand scene in a funny novel, but not now.

Like many Matejko works, the picture presents a grand scene populated with numerous historic figures, including Poland's last King, Stanisław August Poniatowski; Marshals of the Great Sejm Stanisław Małachowski and Kazimierz Nestor Sapieha; co-authors of the Constitution such as Hugo Kołłątaj and Ignacy Potocki; and other major contemporary figures such as Tadeusz Kościuszko.