Sentence examples for of the slipper from inspiring English sources

Ms. Venk releases her new assistant and hobbles across the stage, her heel hanging two inches over the edge of the slipper.

Then the owner of the Slipper Room on Orchard Street ("Sweet" played there until moving to Ella last year) asked Mr. Herzog to host some of its burlesque nights just as he was considering starting his own show.

Camille Habacker, a co-owner of the Slipper Room, a restaurant and performance art space on Orchard Street, has been fined and shut down several times for having a disc jockey and permitting dancing, even on a stage.

Adam Lewis's new book, "Billy Baldwin: The Great American Decorator" (Rizzoli), surveys the life and career of the man whose pared-down versions of the slipper chair and brass bookshelves became famous, and whose work continues to influence designers long after his death in 1983.

There are some revealing moments along the way: the former naval officer Nixon doing his morning exercises to Richard Rodgers's theme music from the TV series Victory at Sea; Frost leaving his hardworking advisers at the Beverly Hills Hotel as he goes off to the black-tie premiere of The Slipper and the Rose, his latest film production.

Aside from her glamorous pumpkin carriage arrival at the ball, this poor Cinderella has no magical transformation from servant garb to ballgown; she is forced to stand haplessly on a chair in underwear when the clock strikes midnight; the all-important loss of the slipper never registers; and, most criminally, when the shoe-fitting moment comes, she is hidden from sight by the prince's entourage.

Desai has long rejected these despairing narratives as sharing traits of the "slipper-dragging" genre of tearful women's fiction.

The shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, said that Brough's resignation was not the end of the Slipper-Ashby affair.

Now, color photographs of the slippers are plastered on the box.

He looked on the bottom of the slippers and sure enough they were marked: "Made in U.S.S.R".

The line gave the film its English title and became a catchphrase among the clubbers of his generation, a click of the slippers in this particular Oz.