Sentence examples for great torch from inspiring English sources

Its outer movements have a lively folkloric character, and its central movement, "Aboio," is built around a cello melody that has the makings of a great torch song.

Applause also offered one of the few major film performances by the great torch singer Helen Morgan, who played a burlesque star beset by love, alcohol, and family problems.

In his work and in his person, he expressed both post-first world war liberation from superannuated moral values and a profound sense of melancholy, best and most famously expressed in the great torch song "Twentieth Century Blues" from Cavalcade (1931).

Everybody in India had a Nokia, one particular handset sold millions, not because of access to the internet or a fantastic camera, but because it had a great torch and having a torch in crepuscular India is a very useful asset.

"The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress," Mr. Webb's great modern torch song from a male perspective, throbbed with sorrow.

Most of the second act of "Follies" is staged as a revue, in which the younger versions of the two couples (featuring Kirsten Scott as an outstanding Young Phyllis) sing Sondheim's sendup of Jerome Kern and Harold Arlen — "You're Gonna Love Tomorrow" — and the present-day Sally sings one of the great modern torch songs, "Losing My Mind".

Ms. Lenox's rendition was more angular and slightly less restrained but entirely true to the spirit of the great Harold Arlen-Ted Koehler torch song and to Waters's version, in which bad weather is a fact of life to be endured with minimal self-pity.

Matey and approachable in circumstances to which most stars react with bristling petulance, Plant seems to have mellowed well with age – as too has his music, which, over the years, has developed a burnished grain and texture comparable to that of the folk and blues heroes who originally inspired him to pick up what he calls "the great flaming torch of rock'n'roll" and run with it.

"I looked out the window and there was this great big white torch flashing at the house and I was half blinded," said Cheryl.

So the great 8,000-mile 8,000-milerch relay arOlympicitorchhas begun – and to accompany the flame frelayow until July 27 when it rearoundthe Olympic Stadium, the Guardian is creating a unique Olympic travelogue.

The late, great David Bowie's torch is almost too big for any single performer to carry.