Sentence examples for proper encounter from inspiring English sources

My first proper encounter with his unmistakable soundworld was Akhnaten, a critical disaster in New York but a triumph at English National Opera – which last week announced a new staging of the opera next season.

A proper encounter was best, though, if only to see him fumble his dying soliloquy by way of a slow-motion shot of false teeth flying toward the screen just before his body detonates in an explosion of leaves.

The game's second "proper" boss encounter pitches the trio against a couple of cactus-like Pokeys, one a tower of spiked spheres and the other a rather thinner, but no less pointy, version.

Heading into the modern central business district and towards Taipei 101 – the world's tallest skyscraper until it was usurped by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai – we encounter proper protected cycle ways.

Berlin gave up philosophy proper when an encounter with Ludwig Wittgenstein persuaded him that he would never be first rate at it, turning instead to a subject that hardly existed in England at the time: the history of ideas.The biographies of these two men are at different ends of the spectrum when it comes to quality.

Before entering the fair proper, visitors will encounter a DO WE DREAM UNDER THE SAME SKY, a project by Rirkrit Tiravanija in collaboration with German architects Nikolaus Hirsch/Michel Müller and Finnish chef Antto Melasniemi.

Furthermore, this will be the first time Buonarroti has encountered proper soft ground all season and he appeared to revel in it when trained at Ballydoyle.

They wandered along 'the main drag' from the pyramid stage to the stone circle and almost immediately encountered proper festival-goers (as opposed to rent-a-hippies or pop stars).

Her family, who have viewed the video, believe that police failed to defuse the situation using the kind of crisis management techniques that are now taught as standard in many police departments across the country, including in San Antonio, which has made the proper handling of encounters that have the potential to turn violent a priority in recent years.

The 23-year-old demonstrated the proper etiquette for encountering an athlete with more than 20 Olympic gold medals: bowing.

"So nice," she thinks, "to encounter a proper gentleman these days".