Sentence examples for stage flat from inspiring English sources

"Besides having the three all-weather courses in the country we also stage Flat turf racing and jumping.

The even, prestorm light creates the feeling of a stage set, with each band of color functioning like a separate painted stage flat.

But to have another, Mark Cavendish, as the favourite for the green points jersey and the bunch sprints means that for three weeks, no stage – flat or mountainous – will be lacking in red, white and blue-tinged interest.

Ophuls characters fall for the wrong people, at the worst possible hour, but the fall itself is no crime; if anything, it is against a backdrop of lovelessness — a graying marriage, say, like a painted stage flat — that the real thing is most likely to emerge.

The admiration is most obvious in "Crepuscular Dawn," whose image -- rendered in white, black and violet smoothed on in big swipes -- suggests a deep, dark tunnel through an iceberg, but whose presence is that of an unusually tactile stage flat or the backdrop of a diorama.

With the Vuelta's final stage flat and largely ceremonial, akin to the Champs-Élysées stage in the Tour de France, this stood as the final result, with Contador winning the Vuelta to complete his career triple; he also won the combination classification and its white jersey.

All the elements are layered like stage flats or curtains, so that an illusionistic sense of depth keeps shifting, flattening then deepening.

And in "The Four Seasons" (1949-1960) winter, spring, summer and fall recede sequentially into the distance like a succession of brilliantly colored stage flats.

Drunken yobs disrupt the performance and when one of them comes up on stage he's lured by Valentina through the Imaginarium's ribboned mirror into a set of stage flats.

The composition proceeds like a succession of stage flats, different yet connected, beginning with the parallel bands of sun-baked furrows running across the bottom of the picture, where young vines are cradled in freshly dug, impossibly consistent holes.

Then there are the backgrounds, with their clouded, plastery grays and freckles of dust; for every image that blinds you with Arctic whiteout, there are two that resemble stage flats, or a building under construction.