Sentence examples for something of a stage from inspiring English sources

Vast viewing terraces and concrete bleachers already make Astoria Pool into something of a stage.

Winthrop, too, once a mining hub, is something of a stage set.

The shop, which Ms. Cohen opened 50 years ago on a commercial stretch of West 72nd Street, is itself something of a stage, its shelves and racks home to everything from metallic shoulder bags and hats shaped like Frank Gehry buildings to raw silk jackets and gold chain necklaces so heavy they could anchor a ship.

(That's to say, he himself is something of a stage nance).

But his widow is also something of a stage-door Twankey who drops in references to Trevor Nunn and Fiona Shaw and ends up doing a sub-Dietrich solo turn.

"It will be something of a staged drawdown," Maj.

The combative tone was typical of Putin, but the subject of the fight represented something of a new stage.

Michael Urie, who has become something of a New York stage regular ("Angels in America," "The Cherry Orchard") since the conclusion of the TV series "Ugly Betty" (not to mention the quick cancellation of his recent "Partners"), will be back this spring in a new play by Jonathan Tolins ("The Twilight of the Golds," "Secrets of the Trade").

It could be that, 20 years from now, when today's kids are grown up and running the show on the internet, and digital communication has progressed through what is still something of a teething stage, we'll all be able to enjoy a happier, friendlier social media landscape.

In that respect it was something of a shame this game was staged in the hospitable but somewhat basic Esher club ground, because in every respect it was worthy of a grander stage.

That gives the novel, for all its length and sense of scope, an unexpected intimacy, as it traces the lives of just a couple of characters, with history as something of a backdrop, a stage set against which the central action plays.