Sentence examples for rises on a from inspiring English sources

The curtain rises on a clutch of ballerinas posed stretching on the floor of a rehearsal room at the Opéra, as in a Degas painting.

In most countries, the effects of kleptocracy are easy to predict: economists have calculated that for every point that a nation's corruption rises on a scale of one to ten, its economic growth drops by one per cent.

The curtain rises on a poker table, where one of four players is glowering incredulously at another, who is dealing very slowly.

The curtain rises on a man, alone in one of those spotlights on the dark stage, in a solo in which easily reaching and straightening limbs form handsome geometric shapes.

But he agreed to allow The Times to spend about six hours with him the other day at his compound in the Honduran capital, a walled enclave of one-story buildings that rises on a hillside overlooking a busy city roadway.

It rises on a buttress west of the frontier ridge.

Here the curtain — a white paper scrim — rises on a snowy Elsinore.

And this week, the curtain rises on a political bribery trial in Manhattan.

BOTTOM RIGHT: A staff member arrives for work as the sun rises on a rainy morning.

The curtain rises on a smoky stage on which a man is standing.

The curtain rises on a white room, with stylised tables and chairs.