Sentence examples for in the shape of table from inspiring English sources

The first sign that all was not well came in the shape of table toppers Arsenal, who crushed Villa 4-0 at Villa Park, with Martin Keown scoring an own goal against his former club, "looking every inch the sad teenager who knew he'd left Arsenal's adolescent piss-up at the soft drinks stage," to quote Jon Spurling in All Guns Blazing.

The Iron Curtain Trilogy is typical of Edgar's work in that each play is driven by an image encapsulated in the title: the etiquette of a negotiating room in The Shape of the Table; various meanings of "speaking in tongues" in Pentecost; and a classic case study from psychological game theory for The Prisoner's Dilemma.

In The Shape of the Table (1990), about the collapse of the eastern bloc, his dissident president ends not by ushering in a new era, but with a feeble call to ape western capitalism: "Let's just get back to the normal ordinary way of doing things," he announces in the final act, "the way they do them in the west".

His plays have remained infused with "the great transformational myths of our age", as he puts it, and have applied his sharp political analysis to some of the thorniest political issues: the rise of the National Front in Destiny (1980), the human consequences of the miners' strike in That Summer (1987), and the disintegration of eastern Europe in The Shape of the Table and Pentecost (1994).

Bend over so that your body appears to be in the shape of a table and you can wrap your arms around the middle of your thighs.

In his most recent play, If Only, performed at Chichester and broadcast on Radio 4, the entire coalition government occurs while theatregoers are having their pees and ice-creams; in both The Shape of the Table and The Prisoner's Dilemma, the entrance of a play-changing character happens just before the midway lights come up, and this is a calculated tactic.

Geometric morphometric analysis revealed age-related differences in the shape of the distal femur (Table 4).

"There's a piggy bank in the shape of an owl on the table, and you're supposed to donate whatever you can.

Competition for the 20-year-old's signature has emerged in the shape of Southampton, who have reportedly tabled a better offer of £10m.

In fact, they were just arguing about the shape of a table, as the South Vietnamese refused to negotiate with the Viet Cong.

The Downing Street solution: a table in the shape of a diamond.