Sentence examples for ugly stage from inspiring English sources

And so kicked off the ugly stage we're in.

With the exception of a brief, not-quite-neutral get-out-the-vote speech ("Make sure this year's election isn't a disappointment to you," he said), Usher stuck to the script, tripping nimbly across his barebones (and rather ugly) stage set.

Everyone knows that swans are beautiful majestic birds, they're cute little metaphors in children's stories that teach us about getting beautiful after our ugly stage, or scenery in poems by Wordsworth about lakes and people being "gay" together.

His bracing, willfully ugly staging is a good reminder that while Wagner is enjoying a major revival in popularity (there were no fewer than 20 full-scale Ring cycles performed last year), the context for his reception has changed completely.

The hotel pays 50 cents a piece for them getting them at the age of a week or so and replacing them after a month, when they get into the ugly duckling stage, with a new bunch of youngsters.

But few candidates capture the party nomination, or the presidency, without "winning ugly" at some stage.

It is more a dog show than flea market, and you don't keep the ugly dogs on stage after the first round of judging.

The season, marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, will also include a new play by Marius von Mayenburg, whose well-received social satire The Ugly One was staged first upstairs and then downstairs at the Royal Court.

(Mr Ivanishvili and most of his ministers refused to be interviewed by The Economist).Most worrying, Mr Ivanishvili has stirred up some dark forces in Georgian society, including far-right nationalists and semi-criminal groups, who have recently staged ugly anti-gay riots, defending "traditional Orthodox values" against corrupting Western influences.

So glorious, this home to sublime cacti and ugly javelina, an outdoor stage for the high histrionics of geologic time, but so very, very crazy.

In the midst of a tumultuous meeting in May 1979, Kouchner and his pals walked out rather than stage an ugly fight for control.