Sentences with phrase «offstage for»

I'm not sure I could have risked what I did with Fenno's character — making him the center of the novel yet keeping him largely offstage for most of the beginning and much of the end — without that example.

We meet a rising young combo, the Dramatics, waiting offstage for their moment to win the crowd.

But with Woods offstage for a second straight major and Phil Mickelson and his quest to complete the Lefty Slam headlining a star - studded cast, McIlroy enters this week's U.S. Open out of the spotlight.

Not exact matches

But for the throngs of friends and colleagues in attendance, he simply appeared almost at random throughout the day: at the front of the stage, fist - pumping to whatever band was playing; onstage, peacocking like Mick Jagger; or jumping offstage and crowd - surfing.

Facebook was more valuable to him as a «low - key, offstage networking tool,» a «replacement for end - of - year family newsletters» that allowed him to «passively keep up with people,» he said.

The first two drum - beats are offstage, while the stage directions for the third leave it unclear whether Mr. Zuss actually strikes the drum or whether the sound comes from offstage as the light fades.

For the first half of the play, Dmitry Shcherbina's young, handsome Malvolio melts on and offstage like Jeeves in a morning suit.

For most of us women and men who have grown up in a world where men are the image makers and decision maker and where even God is male, it comes as a surprise to discover that, offstage, the figure of a woman looms large.

Once he recorded the offstage voice for the game sequence in the Broadway production of Damn Yankees, and in a movie called The Babe Ruth Story Allen's voice described Ruth's then remarkable 60th home run.

Puma is only one of the weird but unique names chosen for the children of Erykah Badu or Erica Abi Wright, her offstage name.

Noisy offstage plotting against Iain Duncan Smith in Blackpool made 2003 a memorably bad year for the Tories.

This sequel offers more of the same peppy, upbeat blend of onstage thrust - and - grind and offstage emotional upheaval, as Mike and the team set out for the beach to take part in a stripping convention.

For an actress embarrassed that she got her big break in Grease 2, it must have seemed like an opportunity to demonstrate that she could pull off Sandy and Rizzo at the same time; she's pure lusciousness behind the microphone, sarcastic and world - weary offstage.

Guillermo del Toro scolded the orchestra for trying to play him offstage.

Don't Think Twice is not a perfect movie, or even a movie for everyone, which justifies its exclusion from the top 20, but it revels in these formative moments (your time as a group offstage is just as important, if not more so, than your time onstage).

Keaton leads the way, and he is matched by Zach Galifianakis, in an atypically serious role as the actor's producer and long - suffering best friend; Edward Norton, as an actor who joins the troupe at the last minute and proves to be a loose cannon, on and offstage; Naomi Watts, as his loyal leading lady; and, in the juiciest part of her career to date, Emma Stone, as Keaton's daughter, who's just out of rehab and working for her father.

For me, the conclusion missed in both directions at once — offering a revelation with serious implications, but then uncomfortably ushering it offstage as quickly as possible.

Friedberg and Seltzer give no indication they've actually watched most of the movies they're parodying: the gags, so to speak, invariably involve some character (like, say, No Country For Old Men's Anton Chigurh) abruptly showing up, quoting a few lines from the trailer, and then scurrying offstage before anyone might have to write them something original.

«He has pointed out that the traditional book has had a 500 - year run; he clearly thinks its time for these relics to sort of shuffle offstage.

Interesting uses of Apple and Orange for kills (particularly offstage), and lol at Hydrant hitbox launch angle leading to stage spikes.

Being able to attend the recordings for the first Monster Hunter at Victor Studio and later Press Start in 2006 was very meaningful to me, but because I had to perform at that concert I was required to be offstage much of the time.

His reputation did come up for review last month, in an offstage incident that briefly threatened to plunge his upcoming biennial into the kind of furor that dogged the 1993 show.

Dunham advances that in the mid-70s, Murray «rehabilitated discarded structures from earlier modern painting: The biomorphic silhouettes of Arp, the pulsating Platonism of the later Kandinsky, and the spatial fractures of Stuart Davis colonial Cubism were all hovering just offstage, present if not fully accounted for.»

Facebook was more valuable to him as a «low - key, offstage networking tool,» a «replacement for end - of - year family newsletters» that allowed him to «passively keep up with people,» he said.