Sentence examples for gritty stage from inspiring English sources

Then Ms. Lewis's gritty stage persona disintegrated as she tenderly serenaded her new grandchildren with "My Funny Valentine".

Earlier, Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly said that as the Haass talks move to the "nitty gritty" stage, the key issue to be dealt with was the "huge issue" of the past.

10 p.m. 4) MUSICAL MILE The music snobs may have moved on, but it's still impossible to talk about the Mile End district without name-dropping bands like Arcade Fire and the gritty stages that gave them their start.

The gritty staging by the director Christopher Alden, introduced at the Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, N.Y., last year, is coming to the New York City Opera this spring; currently, the Opera Festival of New Jersey is offering an involving production at the McCarter Theater here at Princeton University.

Or you can see City Opera's gritty staging by James Robinson, updated to the opening months of World War I. Yet if the Met was the more traditional company in the past, Peter Gelb, its current general manager, is trying to change all that by hiring theatrical and film directors to spice up the productions.

Parallel tracks So long, pal Partners and rivals ReprintsMany other Asian regional agreements are mooted but none has reached the TPP's nitty-gritty stage, where hundreds of officials plough through 29 dense chapters while anti-globalisation protesters harangue them for plotting a "secret corporate coup".

The gritty black stage, designed by Joanna Seitz, is studded with objects: two orange industrial-strength fans, a leafy tree in a bright blue pot and a triangular stack of cinderblocks.

Granted, this is much easier to do when they're in the Eastern Conference finals, so even when the Celtics stage a gritty, for-the-ages victory in Game 5, it was, of course, more about what the Heat did not do.

The show – conceived by Sylvester Stallone, who wrote and starred in the original "Rocky" – had its world premiere opening in Hamburg in November and received positive reviews from German theater critics for its gritty realism and inventively staged boxing sequences.

(Rooney)20110624 'Measure for Measure' (in previews; opens on Thursday) David Esbjornson stages this gritty tragicomedy about sleazy politicians and sex scandals — 17th-century dramatic gifts that keep on giving.

Sam Allardyce saw his depleted Bolton team secure a point from the first game in the group stage of the Uefa Cup last night, after a gritty display in Istanbul.