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How To Use footlights In A Sentence

• Olson has a magnetism that leaps across the footlights.
• The Oedipus stage manager paces anxiously by the footlights.
• The choreographer's problem is how to make subtle or vigorous gesture visible to those on the other side of the footlights.
• The palm trees are unhomely, the tropical plants seem to stand behind footlights. The French Immortals Series — Complete
• The choreographer's problem is how to make subtle or vigorous gesture visible to those on the other side of the footlights.
• While novelty ignites temporary enthusiasm on both sides of the footlights, the Washington Ballet's most urgent need would seem to be productions of proven old works.
• People who find themselves in dire economic straits throughout America tomorrow may also be expected to turn to the red-curtained drama of mass violence in order to “send a message” across the footlights. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
• There would he lay till they would him descry, spancelled down upon a blossomy bed, at one foule stretch, amongst the daffydowndillies, the flowers of narcosis fourfettering his footlights, a halohedge of wild spuds hovering over him, epicures waltzing with gardenfillers, puritan shoots advancing to Aran chiefs. Finnegans Wake
• Clever staging meant that we were backstage - the curtain and footlights downstage - watching the dancers warm up and interact before a show.
• Its rewards are abundant in friendships as well as in cash, and the happiness radiated to you from behind the footlights is the direct result of the happiness that permeates the very being of the smiling favorite of the gods whose efforts to please you have met with your approbation. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession