Sentence examples for like ashton from inspiring English sources

And famous names like Ashton, Darwin, Kennedy and Usher were lower in the ranks.

Cory Jane is a wonderful player, but, like Ashton on Savea, Yarde failed to bring his man down too often.

"No one has really come along like Ashton in a really long time," said Hardee, who finished a comfortable second behind Eaton in the trials.

Like Balanchine (like Ashton, too, actually), he is superlatively musical, and works in easy intimacy with his scores, tucking steps between the beats, against the beat, and then, when he needs to, coming down, smack, on the beat.

Story ballets, fairytale ballets, plotless ballets… Growing up with the work of people like Ashton, John Cranko and Kenneth MacMillan, I thought doing everything was what a choreographer did.

His historical sense is, like Ashton's, uncanny: at times he seems attuned to Romantic-style ballets by Bournonville that he was unlikely to have seen.

We are watching the dress rehearsal for a play called "Nothing On," whose doomed tour through English towns like Ashton-under-Lyne and Stockton-on-Tees is the subject of "Noises Off," Michael Frayn's ingenious 1982 farce within a farce.

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In nearby Urmston, 28 per cent of the township's population was in 1851 engaged in textile work, but the area did not experience the level of industrialisation seen in towns like Ashton-under-Lyne, east of Manchester, where 16 mills were built between 1815 and 1829, doubling the population.

"I don't know why but no one really likes us," Ashton says.

Board members reminisced one last time about names they had liked (the Ashton, one of the new ones) and names some of the neighbors hated (the Sutton Grand).