Sentence examples for occasion display from inspiring English sources

The Mariinsky, which can on occasion display some scrappiness, has a sound full of flavor, terrific string playing and the expected innate sense of phrasing for this patriarch of Russian music.

There are solid St.-Estèphes from the northern reaches of that appellation that, on occasion, display the silkiness of a great Margaux or roundness of a good St.-Julien, and there are St.-Juliens that in some years can pass for Pauillacs or even Pomerols, from far to the east.

However, regardless of mounting scientific evidence that nonhumans are predominantly cooperative, peaceful, and fair and on occasion display social justice, media hype continues to portray other animals as being far more violent and war-like than they really are.

He does though occasionally drop his guard, on one occasion displaying his apparent depression at being nothing more than "an overgrown boy-scout".

Schwarzman, who has, on occasion, displayed a tendency to blame the financial crisis on poor people, now seems to agree with President Obama that the pain, notably through tax increases and entitlement reform, needs to be balanced across classes.

She used the televised occasion to "display the full repertoire she possesses".

Yet he did not use the occasion to display bravura skill or technical novelty.

As in the title pages or main divisions of later printed books, incipits provide an occasion for display letters and a fanfare of calligraphic ornament.

Director and star use the play — part Mary Astor weeper, part Frances FitzGerald war exegesis — as an occasion to display the importance of their joint consciousness.

On the other hand, it was (and still is) regarded in some quarters as stylish and rather aristocratic to suffer from boredom, so the English ought really to thank their bores for providing them with the occasion to display wit and appear grand.

The three-act comedy Les Plaideurs (first performed 1668, published 1669; The Litigants) offered Racine the challenge of a new genre and the opportunity to demonstrate his skill in Molière's privileged domain, as well as the occasion to display his expertise in Greek, of which he had better command than almost any nonprofessional classicist in France.