Sentence examples for water ballet from inspiring English sources

Then a water ballet was to follow.

They appeared to be taking part in a water ballet rather than an orgy.

Others stretched out all eight arms and just floated around, doing what the researchers described as "water ballet".

They even have nightly water ballet displays, where synchronised aquatic flappers Charleston their way into the pool.

Whereas some of the other finalists went down the path that gave synchronised swimming its original moniker of "water ballet", the British pair were nothing if not edgy.

The final act was a precise water ballet involving the shuttle, two barges, three tugboats, a huge floating crane and an aircraft carrier.

It came out almost to the centreline of the orchestra, which was commonly used for additional seating and occasionally used for everything from small-scale gladiatorial combats to water ballets.

Synchronised swimming has its roots in ornamental water ballets of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which evolved into the Busby Berkeley Hollywood water spectaculars popularised by Esther Williams in the 1940s and 50s.

Williams played a swimming instructor at a women's college and the picture ended with a spectacular water-ballet set to the Blue Danube waltz, with alternate jets of water and flame bursting from the pool.

The shimmery froth of a Busby Berkeley like water-ballet musical stars a hardboiled and tough-talking hedonist (played by Scarlett Johansson with a chewy New York accent that's a step from Jean Hagen's Lina Lamont in "Singin' in the Rain") whose pregnancy Eddie needs to finesse.

The second act takes place on the ocean floor and is filled with imaginatively costumed dancing fish -- including sea urchins and jellyfish -- who move in and out of tableaus that recall quaint water-ballets of the 19th century.