Sentence examples for like a nativity from inspiring English sources

While there is no major Christmas-themed family film, like a Nativity, this year, three titles for grownups competed for the festive audience at the weekend.

This joint looks like a nativity scene shot at Sears.

Wilde also relates the scene when Pietersen launched his first autobiography in 2006, having brought along his parents, two brothers and a sister-in-law, to whom he incessantly looked over – "like a boy in a nativity play," as one writer described it at the time.

The Guardian's Philip French described it as "hypnotic, self-indulgent and lacking in context, rather like doting parents at a nativity play concentrating on their daughter's Mary or their son's Joseph to the exclusion of the other performers and the Gospel message".

With heavy-handed material by James Olm (music, lyrics and book) and J. C. Hanley (lyrics and book) and workmanlike direction by Richard Burk, the musical feels much more like a church Nativity play than heterodoxy (which makes it fitting that it is at St. Clement's Episcopal Church).

Haunting and beautiful, the sassi sprawl below the rim of a yawning ravine like a giant nativity scene.

Apart from occasional lapses, such as Ann Widdecombe's remark that a woman at the altar would be like a boy playing Mary in a nativity play, the debates in both houses, especially in the Commons, were pretty serious and intelligent.

People stopped in the drizzle on West Houston Street yesterday and stared at a Nativity scene that looked more like a bad art installation.

LIKE the Nativity story told at Christmas, or the 30,000th rerun of "It's a Wonderful Life," the story of mainstream cinema and Christian America has a familiar ring to it: a surprise hit comes along, revealing a huge, underserved religious audience ready to be relieved of its entertainment dollars.

According to this view of the establishment clause, "if you don't like the nativity display, then don't look at it.

Take a nativity scene, for instance.