Sentence examples for rickety stage from inspiring English sources

Every fortnight in a different part of Jahangirpuri, a rickety stage is erected, usually facing blocks of makeshift shacks.

Beneath the rickety stage that bears the 53-year-old film-star, idol of Andhra Pradesh's Telugu-language film industry, or "Tollywood", the crowd boils and threatens to burst.

Consider this passage from the nakedly Freudian story The Swords (1969), in which a travelling salesman, in a tent at a shabby fair, watches men paying to stab a woman on a rickety stage.

He was propping up the whole rickety stage.

Mr. Woyce, hidden behind his rickety traveling stage, put on a slapstick presentation that had the children laughing and applauding.

But then again, she would not be out of place on a rickety roadhouse stage or in Madison Square Garden or a Williamsburg loft or at a Dust Bowl-era county fair.

In a speech Monday morning, Mr. Kuti both incited and calmed the crowd listening at his feet amid clouds of marijuana smoke, expressing disgust with Nigeria's institutions from his rickety wooden stage as supporters murmured their approval.

Likewise, those dense passages of Shakespeare -- seemingly doomed to exist only as bright, fleeting verbal dazzlers delivered from a rickety, flammable stage -- have been lovingly disassembled and scrutinized, word by word, by critics like Kermode, and recently spun through computer concordances and databases into lines of analysis unthinkable to the master who produced them.

Nevertheless, I loved films as a child, and was well able to suspend disbelief in even the ricketiest of stage furniture.

Suddenly, that brief chronological gap in the procession of drag queens across the the rickety Ice Palace stage was vast and devastating.

So, while The Entertainer may continue to be revived, especially around anniversaries of the Suez crisis, the library shelf to which it belongs now feels as rickety as the stages Archie Rice played.