Sentence examples for or coliseum from inspiring English sources

Like Italian opera houses - but unlike London's Covent Garden or Coliseum - the Met makes a huge deal of its opening night performance.

A few blocks north, the charred ruins of the World Trade Center looked like the ribs of some cathedral or coliseum of fallen greatness against the evening sky.

Now the U.S. Postal Service is trying to get in on the act and omits Dodger Stadium or the Coliseum, or any park west of St . Louisin its new "Baseball's Greatest Parks" postage stamp series?

After several plans in the past decade failed to rebuild or refurbish the Coliseum or construct a new arena on Long Island, the team announced in October that it would relocate to Barclays Center in Brooklyn for the 2015-16 season.

Since then, the Huskies had played their Big East home games at Hartford Civic Center or New Haven Coliseum.

Protesters have not barracked Covent Garden or the Coliseum for "objectifying" women by depicting orgies on stage.

And at the same price for a ticket in the amphitheatre at the back of Covent Garden or the Coliseum, you can feel like you're in the best seat in the house – better, in fact, since no stalls seat at the Metropolitan Opera in New York allows you to analyse Bryn Terfel's makeup or voicebox in such close detail.

Not all football stadiums can be Carnegie Hall or the Coliseum.

But Staples is groomed and efficient in ways Dodger Stadium or the Coliseum can only wish for.

Whether it's in Montreal or Oakland-Alameda Coliseum when the Athletics were bad or Cleveland's old cavernous Municipal Stadium when the Indians were bad, teams find it depressing to play in parks with sparse crowds.

The concept was very little different in philosophy (though it was in practice) to that of a museum on the one hand, or to the long history of animal exploitation in circuses, the use of animals in fights in the Roman Coliseum, or the horrors of bear baiting and cock fighting or dog fighting.