Sentence examples for without a spotlight from inspiring English sources
It was a deliberate choice to start without a spotlight.
Ferry sang maybe six songs at the mic; he often sat upstage at a keyboard and sang, without a spotlight to help us find him.
It is especially notable because she is working here virtually without a spotlight: Ms. Lavin is the ostensible star; Ms. Niemietz and Ms. Champlin are ostensibly the subjects.
As usual Mr. Keenan stood on a platform near the back of the stage without a spotlight on him, although he could be seen striking poses or pulling off his cowboy hat to show the tall Mohawk haircut underneath.
"They said, 'If the studio is to be taken down, it doesn't matter if it's sooner or later.' " Mr. Ai said that the officials might have moved ahead with their plans so that the destruction would take place without a spotlight.
In live performances with Tool, Keenan has often been known to be situated on a platform towards the rear of the stage, without a spotlight, facing the backdrop rather than the audience.
CHICAGO — This city found itself engulfed on Monday by a sudden public school strike that left 350,000 children without classes, turned a spotlight on rising tensions nationally over teachers' circumstances, and placed both the powerful teachers' union and Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a risky, politically fraught standoff with no clear end in sight.
"We haven't come anywhere close to that point yet," said Mr. Lieberman, never one to surrender a spotlight without a struggle.
Then, without so much as a spotlight or a snappy song like "One" from "A Chorus Line," Mr. Eustis introduced what he called the mayor's "audition for his new job, which I promise I will take very seriously".
A British woman who was allegedly kidnapped and gang raped by three men in Dubai has been prosecuted for drinking without a licence, throwing a spotlight on the United Arab Emirates' archaic legal system, which rights groups say does not do enough to protect victims of sexual assault.
An approach like this allows the currency to slowly build itself in the background without the need for a spotlight and the barrage of speculators that come with it.
