Sentence examples for opening choice from inspiring English sources

An upcoming work session about human trafficking in Connecticut open to the public seemed an odd opening choice given what I know about the history of New Canaan, but clearly the center is being programmed to combat some of the town's previous reputation for exclusivity.

That film will open in America soon, and so will the festival's opening choice, "La Vie en Rose," Olivier Dahan's warmly received biography of Édith Piaf.

And his opening choice bears a close likeness to one that Spassky used off and on for many years.

Shabalov's opening choice, the Dutch Defense, ceded Ippolito control over the central black squares, the main drawback of the defense.

Most of the selections have a more personal feel, beginning with Whoopi Goldberg's opening choice, Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast," at 8 p.m. Thursday.

An aura of nostalgia, created by illuminated vintage radios decorating the stage, was certainly enhanced with her opening choice – the springy groove of We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye, recorded by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and Bix Beiderbecke in 1932, burnished with guitarist Anthony Wilson's and violinist Stuart Duncan's debonair Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grappelli exchange in the middle of it.

"Life of Pi," which will be shown in 3-D, is an unusual opening-night choice both for its crowd-pleasing sincerity and for its sheer visual grandeur.

Although I haven't seen this documentary about the making of the Elton John-Leon Russell album "The Union," with the producer T Bone Burnett, the fact that Mr. John's song "Tiny Dancer" was a spiritual grounding wire of "Almost Famous" gives me high hopes that it will be one of the stronger opening-night choices for a festival that has sometimes led off with a thud.

(Sinagra) KEVIN DEVINE (Tonight) This singer-songwriter has been the opening act of choice for brainy acts from Liz Phair to Bright Eyes.

With BBC3 also moving online, there is a clear gap opening: the more choice and offered to under-sixteens by likes of Netflix, the less being offered by traditional linear formats.

For a Cuban dancer it means the opening of more choice and possibility, and that is of infinite value.