Sentence examples for serge in from inspiring English sources

(Chabrol returned there to make Le Beau Serge, in which he depicted it as grey and unattractive).

Serge in the 1950s studied history at the Sorbonne, received a licence in law from the University of Paris, and was studying at the Institute of Political Studies of Paris when he met Beate.

Certainly, TV in the past decade has encouraged us to – if not root for – then sympathise to a degree with troubling characters, but I'm still deeply uneasy about this softening of Serge in recent weeks.

Serge in his plane over enemy lines, flying above and below, marking the sky around him with these wonderful vapour trails while shooting up heroin and quoting Hölderlin, and so on.

Still, with the exception of a New York appearance in 1998 as Serge in "Art," his career for the last two decades has been entirely here, and one wonders how this summons to take on Broadway's choicest musical role happened.

So I mean they covered my eyes, the top of my eyes, with ice cubes and then the makeup person said, 'We can't make you up because you're all sort of shiny' -- the way you are when you've been crying all night -- "so I did it totally un-made-up and I'm so pleased because at that time, thank goodness for the night with Serge in that case, because otherwise we're all tarted up to the eyeballs.

Presti has built the Thunder through the draft, selecting Kevin Durant in 2007, Russell Westbrook and Serge Ibaka in 2008, and James Harden in 2009.

Stokowski in Philadelphia and Serge Koussevitzky in Boston both pursued a consuming dual mission: the quest for vital new repertory, and the considered education of young musicians and young audiences.

He was born in 1937 as Serge Tchurukdichian in Marseille, where his Armenian grandparents had settled after fleeing the violence against Armenians in their native Turkey after World War I.

Mr. Eifman takes considerable liberties with the life story of Olga Spessivtseva, the Russian ballerina who became a legend during her years with the Maryinsky, which she left in 1918 to dance for Serge Diaghilev in the West.

SERGE: It started in furniture.