Sentence examples for staging shy from inspiring English sources

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The Da Ponte libretto certainly has a cruel undertone that most productions, including the Met's current staging, shy away from exploring.

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But whilst glad rags are positively encouraged, the stage shy can stick to designer wellies and hotpants if they wish.

In 2007, the soft-spoken (and stage shy) Mr. Wong sent Mr. Chorpash, the professor and friend, to the podium at a design conference to give an entire presentation pretending to be him — never mind that Mr. Chorpash is tall and Caucasian — while Mr. Wong sat amid baffled audience members, wearing a devilish smile.

During the pairing stage, shy focal fish swam much closer to the adjacent compartment than bold focal fish (t23.74 = 4.05, P = 0.003; Fig. 1b).

He did what others on the stage shied away from doing, criticizing Trump's divisiveness.

The stage-shy northern lights had taken to the upper air and were performing their magic act.

They split up when record label Food was swallowed up by EMI, since when formerly stage-shy Blackwood has obviously lived a bit.

At the last minute the stage-shy Walter, pressured to perform, discovers his special talent as an operatic whistler and wins his place in the Muppet clan, and the movie lays on the inspirational shtick.

They get a woman in a green tutu performing "a loving tribute to Kate Bush", lilting through 'Babooshka' and 'Them Heavy People' in a pretty uncanny impression of the stage-shy legend.

Carmen Ghia, the waspish assistant of the swishy director Roger DeBris, imitates the hard-boiled producer Julian Marsh in "42nd Street" by slapping a stage-shy DeBris and commanding, "You're going out there a silly, hysterical screaming queen, and you're coming back a great, big passing-for-straight Broadway star!" Take that, Peggy Sawyer!

3. Avoid the stage-shy duet partner.

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