Sentence examples for theatrical fall from inspiring English sources

Rather than go for goal, Guerrero tried, and failed, to hoodwink the Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir with a theatrical fall.

And, finally, here's a United supporters' site showing, lower down the page, in stages, Young's "theatrical" fall against QPR.

Here, in a moment that killed the game after 37 minutes, it was the space between Pepe's ears that he was concerned with, inducing via an over-the-top theatrical fall a mild but still idiotic butt of the head by the Portuguese that rightly saw him sent off.

A theatrical fall in the area by Matteo Darmian, in at right back because Antonio Valencia needed an operation on a broken arm, did not succeed in fooling Clattenburg, though Mourinho was sent to the stands for complaining too vehemently to the official at the break.

"My initial reaction was that the referee had booked the striker for a theatrical fall," added O'Neill.

Leverkusen's frustrations only grew after the break when Lucas's theatrical fall saw them reduced to 10 men as Spahic received his second yellow card of the evening for an innocuous push.

"I'm sorry you don't know any of these songs, but you're still going to love them," he giggled, as the combination of his Bowie-meets-Britpop swaggering tunes, perfectly timed jacket removal and theatrical falls to his knees brought widespread swooning.

The Ivorian, who scored the only goal at Stamford Bridge, was criticised for some theatrical falls during last week's match but Pique said: "I believe in Drogba that, every time he fell down, it was because he was in pain, or he felt a kick on him.

To the Monty Python veteran John Cleese, who has called Izzard "the funniest man in England," the prospect of performing this kind of theatrical free fall "is more or less like being taken away by the Gestapo into a dark room".

The new "talkies," mostly poor imitations of theatrical plays, fell short of the artistic levels of the best silent films.

Theatrical revenues fell by 6.7% to 2,568 crore (£257m) from 2014's total of 2,754 crore, according to figures published by the Indian title Business Standard.