Sentence examples for stand alone in front of from inspiring English sources

It is astonishing that here, in a small mountain town, you can stand alone in front of Homer's "Playing a Fish" or Sargent's "Resting".

The assignment was to walk out onstage, stand alone in front of hundreds of advertising executives (who knew him, if at all, as a misogynist "Man Show" neanderthal), and, in comedy terms, kill.

So Mr. Franks stood alone in front of the diner and took a poke at his rival.

Keith Materi, 41, of Nashville, an antitax protester who was recently laid off from AT&T, stood alone in front of the Capitol with a bullhorn, long past dark, shouting "No means no!" into the impassive faces of state troopers guarding the building.

In his pre-launch video, Paul stands alone in front of the camera, an Ayn Randian figure taking on the crushing Washington "machine".

Jack Nicklaus was quoted as saying he stood alone in front of his television cheering Secretariat on, and had tears coming down his cheeks as the great horse crossed the finish line.

"I used to stand alone … in front of my easel in the wretched light of a paraffin lamp ….

A child stands alone in tears in front of piles of corpses in Zaire, a team of huskies races across the Canadian Arctic.

"Russia stood alone, naked in front of the world," he said.

At the end Sir Alex Ferguson stood alone in the penalty box in front of the Smethwick End, raised both arms to the Manchester United supporters and took a bow.

I went to Tate Britain a few months ago, and walked around the permanent collection rooms – and stood, quite alone, in front of Francis Bacon's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion.