Sentence examples for hog the stage from inspiring English sources

The party will want to hog the stage at Stormont, apparently setting the agenda.

To the embarrassment and astonishment of Democrats gathered in this resort, this was the second consecutive year that Mr. Christie had managed to hog the stage in absentia.

Cooper clearly loves talking to people, doesn't try to hog the stage and is no dummy, three qualities which lift him heads above many other talkshow hosts.

Ms. Tirador's flamenco at the Joyce SoHo included the fellow dancer El Keko de C ba, who appeared to hog the stage a bit, and was accompanied by the music of Roberto Castell?Ms.

When theatre-maker Rob Drummond did the brilliant Bullet Catch in 2012, a piece that relied strongly on the volunteer, it was clear that he was making all sorts of calculations about who should be chosen and who shouldn't: someone keen but not too keen, someone unintimidated but unlikely to want to hog the stage, smart but willing to comply.

During that period she became more famous for her off-page antics: hogging the stage at readings, declaring herself her favorite author, ambushing the writer of a profile in the British newspaper The Observer at that writer's home.

Although different locations are denoted by backstage projections, the feel is predominantly Carry On Camping, the scenes being almost entirely confined to a cross-section of James's "Merry Traveller" trailer, which hogs the stage throughout with a precarious lumpenness.

Well, Kitten is one candidate; Gilder, perfectly cast in the role, gives the best kind of supporting performance, not hogging the stage but winning our attention on the sly.

Today we audition a sax, a tuba, and a banjo, but sax and banjo keep hogging the stage and tuba covers her ears as soon as we start to play.

The historian recommends dealing with a break-up by having a few dozen drinks and hogging the stage all night at a karaoke bar, not by stabbing your brother or joining the Jesuits.

In this sense, the annual British fashion awards night is the creme de la creme of award ceremonies, being wall-to-wall glamour and frocks, without any danger of some film animator hogging the stage for a speech about creativity.