Sentence examples for the aging diva from inspiring English sources

As the aging diva Celimene, Susan Sarandon twits ingenues.

The aging diva trying for one more triumph?

The exceptions are all on the distaff side, including Leslie Denniston as the aging diva Desiree Armfeldt, who delivers beautifully on the show's signature ballad, "Send in the Clowns"; Lisa Brescia, who as the maid Petra performs a late number, "The Miller's Son," that makes you wish she had been heard from earlier; and Amanda Naughton, a brisk and clear-voiced wronged wife.

He plans to take advantage of Maria, with hopes of actually building a singing career, but is unable to find the aging diva again he does not know her address, and all the tenement buildings appear the same to him.

But the tricks are just frills compared to the subtle dramatic command she brings to numbers like a sultry, sexed-up "Tea for Two" (part of a Vincent Youmans medley) and a version of that aging diva warhorse "When the World Was Young," which conveys a confident, settled self-knowledge.

If Trump is the swanning, aging diva in the mansion, trapped in a musty miasma, Steve Bannon must be Max, the German director turned butler who massages Norma's ego.

The screwball aging diva genre isn't the only formula guiding this stubbornly old-fashioned movie.

Ms. Ross is the antithesis of an aging diva reflectively considering her life and loves.

The story of an aging diva shuffling around her grand, shabby Paris apartment as she plans her comeback, it is an attempt to make the sweeping lyricism of Gounod and Puccini sing to us in a fresh way.

The stand-ins for Chekhov's aging diva, Madame Irina Arkadina, and her symbolist playwright son, Constantine Treplev, are Josephine Nicholas Ark (played by Alfre Woodard), a former member of the Negro Ensemble Company, and C-Trip (Anthony Mackie), a conceptual performance artist whose play within a play resembles something you might hear at an arty poetry slam deep in the Lower East Side.

When we arrived at her compound, she was sitting on a bed in the courtyard fanning herself, looking like an aging diva.