Sentence examples for splendid stage from inspiring English sources

Élite sports supply, as Epstein puts it, a "splendid stage for the fantastic menagerie that is human biological diversity".

With its majestic diversity of habitats – scrub and scrape, wood and reed, heath and beach – Minsmere is a splendid stage for celebrating the arrival of spring.

His beautiful voice, strong, warm and supple, allied to good looks and a splendid stage presence, brought him a popularity that lasted throughout his long career.

It was splendid stage for the premier players in baseball to strut in a game that is supposed to be fun and about the fans.

As it happened, I was also at Lincoln Center on Saturday, with my brother and daughters, for New York City Ballet's seasonal (and splendid) staging of Balanchine's "The Nutcracker".

In an otherwise splendid staging, it is the director's miscalculation to accentuate the positive, as Brian Corrigan does in a desperately upbeat fadeout that diminishes the play's ruefulness.

It was an immediate and immense success, its splendid staging and effects exceeding even those of Fromental Halévy's La Juive, which had premiered the previous year.

Following a splendid staging of that harrowing final scene, I left the park and headed into the Harlem air pondering love, yes, but also other crucial themes that Shakespeare wrote about so preternaturally: masculinity and its linkage with intra-group violence and the ways in which youth and parents nearly always misunderstand each other.

How splendid this staging's painted scenery still looks on the Met stage; I had forgotten.

This contradiction is solved in Caroline Byrne's splendid revival, which stages The Taming of the Shrew as thumping good fun while also taming the play's ideological toxicity.

Preceding the horse race, a splendid parade is staged by representatives of the 17 ward organizations of the city, called contrade, which now function as social clubs but which in the Middle Ages were rival military companies.