Sentence examples for screen alight from inspiring English sources

But none of them – not even Redford – sets the screen alight.

Brooks cameos as the Gov William J Le Petomane, while Madeline Kahn sets the screen alight as Lili von Shtupp.

Vin Diesel might not be setting cinema screens alight with his acting, but Escape from Butcher Bay, the game based on his sci-fi outings in The Chronicles of Riddick films, was a hit.

Suggested by IvanTiger and Pagey Veering unashamedly into strut territory is John Travolta's Tony Manero, who set movie screens alight in 1977 disco classic Saturday Night Fever and its questionable 1983 follow-up Staying Alive.

Its screen was alight with news of a fire in Chelsea, and instantly he was checking in with the Fire Department's war room in Brooklyn.

Video screens spanned the stage, alight with computer-animated cityscapes and walls of flame; physical pyrotechnics erupted at peak moments.

Mr. Stevens was wearing wings — for songs about birds, he said when he donned them later for "The Owl and the Tanager" — and video screens and scrims were alight with moving stars.

Alighting on screens somewhere between "Back to the Future" and "Peggy Sue Got Married," "Blue Velvet" reflected -- or, rather, refracted -- the cloying, claustrophobic nostalgia for the 1950s that had overtaken the popular culture at the time, a nostalgia that would seem to stand for an impossible desire to go home again.

Medieval: Total War: Viking Invasion brought several enhancements that were also added to the original campaign: flaming ammunition giving the player an option to set alight enemy castles, and a pre-battle deployment screen, allowing the player to organise their forces and view the terrain and opposing forces before the battle begins.

They were largely royalty of the silver screen, of course, men and women who appeared to us at some remove, alighting from a mythical place called Hollywood.

Insect repellents, such as dimethyl phthalate, when applied to exposed skin, will keep sand flies away for a few hours, but the use of insecticide sprays on verandas, on screens, around doors and windows, and within habitations will readily kill all adult sand flies that alight on the sprayed surfaces.