Sentence examples for rackety from inspiring English sources

Jonathan Kent's production this evocation of the rackety world of American vaudeville – with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents – boasted a breathtaking performance from Imelda Staunton, who played Mama Rose not as some implacable monster but as a jaunty, defiant woman seeking surrogate stardom through the showbiz success of her two daughters.

I start my ban just after transfer deadline day, the most rackety motor of news production.

Hunter's company, Told By An Idiot, is more closely associated with genre-defying devised work than rackety repertory scripts.

Saltzman was, by all accounts, the ultimate caricature of the movie producer: warm, loud, crass, a consummate gambler with the requisite rackety past, a keen eye for the main chance and a tight fist around the purse strings.

The new banks started by local entrepreneurs in the early 1990s were often as rackety as the new private companies to which they lent.

It was immortalised by Xu Zhimo, a 20th-century poet with all the attributes required for lasting celebrity: talent, a rackety love life and a dramatic early death (plane crash at 34).

It is also a tribute to the power of the horse to calm, contain and inspire.In this section No go The Pak pack Lord of the lies A calming influence Collateral damage Brothers in arms ReprintsRaised in a rackety household with a sick mother and alcoholic father, the young Ms Harris sought comfort in animals; snakes, bugs, stray dogs, cats.

A seven-day operation could attract advertisers hoping to target readers unrelentingly, adds Douglas McCabe of Enders Analysis, a London outfit.Still, building a new paper on the grave of a revered, if rackety, tabloid is tough.

In addition to his own reckless spending, mainly on Abbotsford, came some unlucky some would say foolish investment, mostly on rackety schemes that, with a banking collapse and the pricking of a speculative share bubble, were to leave Scott actually, if not legally, bust.

So here is a brief attempt to set the record straight.Not every country in central Europe is a poor, small place with bad roads, corrupt officials, a rackety Russian-built nuclear-power plant and a squabbling coalition government.

The numbers may rise as more Ukrainians and others get multiple-entry visas for Poland, but the border is making its presence felt.Poland wants Ukraine as a prosperous, stable and accessible neighbour, not as a poor and rackety one with a dodgy democracy and even dodgier nuclear power stations.