Sentence examples for prize display from inspiring English sources
Its prize display is the coral "eye," discovered in 1978, that ended centuries of speculation about whether the moai once had eyes.
In a televised interview of the auction, Mr. Ames said there was no question what he would do with his prize: display it just as he bought it, preserving even the layers of accumulated dust, in his collection of low-mileage cars.
"Some look only about rarity and some are systematic and collect only one kind of mineral," he added, pointing to the prize display in his booth, a grotesque group of naturally occurring "threads" of Saxon silver, found in an old German collection and dauntingly priced at about $58,000 each.
As it happens, the blushy tone does wonders for tallowy New York winter complexions, and, more important, it sets off to advantage the booth's prize display: a 1901 portrait miniature of the future Kings George VI and Edward VIII, at ages 6 and 7 respectively.
Since its inception, the Mercury prize has displayed an uncanny ability to undo the careers of those who win it.
Production costs were met by private sponsors who, when their choruses won the prize tripod, displayed it in an elaborate memorial in the Street of Tripods to the east of the theatre.
Tiny margins, huge ramifications: the upshot is that Wasps have become the fourth English club to claim Europe's ultimate prize, having displayed the same grit under screeching pressure which enabled them to squeeze past Munster in the semi-final.
Speech Debelle, real name Corynne Elliot, appeared overwhelmed by the occasion and looked close to tears as she accepted the prize, despite displaying a cocksure attitude in the run-up to the event telling interviewers she fully expected to win.
The Swiss-Italian chef, René Mettler, has been here 14 years, and has won an array of glittering prizes on display in an alcove at the back, including one for ice carving in Ottawa.
When photorealist artist Panayiotis Lamprou photographed his wife, naked from the waist down with her legs open, her pubeless vagina pointed at camera, he wasn't chastised or branded a perv – the picture was nominated for a prestigious prize and displayed in the National Portrait Gallery.
UPDATED 16 June, 1 40 p.m.: On the eve of Tuesday's debate, the government of Equatorial Guinea issued a statement (in Spanish) that accused critics of the prize of displaying "a hidden racist, arrogant, and neocolonial attitude" that seeks "to relegate an African country to an inferior status".
