Sentence examples for valise in from inspiring English sources

"Aunt Julia" is a silly, first-rate book, capacious enough to make room even for some touches of magical realism: Camacho's suitcase could no more hold all the acting costumes that are said to be in it than the single valise in García Márquez's "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" could contain nearly two thousand unopened love letters.

As it begins, we are presented not with the eerie atmosphere of metaphysical uncertainty raised by the sentinels calling out into the chill, impenetrable night but with the certainty of Hamlet (Michael Stuhlbarg) arriving home, in cinematic fashion, with a rose and a valise in hand, to mourn at the tomb of his murdered father.

The case, which locks up like a valise in the unlikely event that you'd want to take it on a trip, opens to reveal a blotter, a place for an inkwell, and a series of drawers marked Paid, Unpaid, Answered, and Unanswered, "but we can stamp them, in gold or silver, with anything you want".

Belgian-born entrepreneur Yves Naman opened the three-suite La Valise in a 1920s building in the hip Roma neighborhood several years ago.

A young man, James Kendrick, hat in one hand and valise in the other, had just disembarked from the great ship HMS Mainstream Tech Media and begun writing on a website called JKOnTheRun.

I fixated on the afore-mentioned muffin top, what I perceived to be neck flesh you could pack the contents of an overnight valise in and the concern that my nose was getting longer.

It's worth refamiliarizing yourself with the painting's antic, mechanized anatomy through Duchamp's reproductions of it (hand-colored collotypes that came with his "Box in a Valise") and in studious appropriations by Mike Bidlo and Sherrie Levine, artists whose debts to Duchamp (though not specifically to "Nude") cannot be overstated.

Mrs. Huffy panicked and brought the valise back in the morning.

Blanche's eyes flutter, and the valise shifts in her hand, almost too heavy for her taut, bony frame to carry.

There is also a strong temptation to touch many of the displays in "Case Studies: Art in a Valise," a companion exhibition in an adjacent gallery.

The first ripple of disharmony comes when Hadley decides to bring all Ernest's manuscripts – three years of work, copies included – with her in a valise to a rendezvous in Switzerland.