How To Use Toreador In A Sentence
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In today's opening contest, I've narrowed the field down to Russian Spirit, Fathom Five, Le Toreador, Ishetoo and Fol Hollow but, in the hope that his lowish draw might prove a slight advantage, it's Fol Hollow (1.40) who might just come out on top.
Talking Horses
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I ran, in as dignified a manner as one does when late for a train, while the guard waved a red flag like an accomplished toreador on amphetamines.
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Set in a Brazilian factory town where familiar operatic characters such as the toreador and Don Jose appear as a rock musician and a lovesick cop, respectively, Carmen provides a dramatic challenge for Les Grands.
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I applaud his swift-footed move: Like the toreador who dodged the bull at the last milisecond, he escaped being gored.
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Possibly, if the thing became too pensive and soulful altogether, he might give it some title suggestive of the absent lover at the bull-fight -- "The Toreador's Bride" -- or something of that sort.
The Coming of Bill
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And what of the asphalt toreadors who use their own defenselessness as a kind of weapon?
Pedestrian Detection
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They can get through the eye of a needle.… They're also as brave as toreadors.
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The handsome toreador sat at the bar, his blue eyes and white hair both lightly glistening alike in the poor light the CPI could offer.
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He constructed a toreador mounted on a horse composed of drainpipes, with bicycle tyres to represent the horse's protruding entrails.
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His eyes glisten from a web of wrinkles, and I can imagine an event for each line drawn: flying in Vietnam, coaching the Port Arthur Toreadors for fifteen years, losing a wife named Marguerite to encephalitis, losing his only child to the state of California.
Between Here and the Yellow Sea
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His approach to the arts was akin to that of a toreador to a bull.
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The toreador's victorious march overlaps don Jose's killing of Carmen with the clamors of ‘Victoire!’
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Their torsos were generously oiled and sprinkled with pollen, and they stamped their feet like toreadors, kicking up the sand and whipping up a fever of excitement among themselves and the girls who were watching them.
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Once, Bert almost tripped over Sam, spinning around to admire a passing woman melted into tight turquoise toreador pants, a jeweled white sweater, and heavy make-up, including bee-stung lips covered with pale, nearly white lipstick.
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In skintight toreador pants, she manages to make the world's most famous come-on out of a simple walkaway , and Marilyn's face, by popular standards, is as spectacular as her figure.
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Villagers face forward into the square to see the toreadors who march behind them.
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The playful musicians, the nightclub style and habit, the interplay with the women, secondary but necessary foils for the cock of the walk antics of the musicians, are bested perhaps only by a toreador in his prime.
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Then came the bullfights, except that the toreadors, being slaves or convicts, had been given no chance to practice, so the bull usually gored them to death.
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Better to have had the brilliant young conductor Philippe Jordan on stage, seen at the start wielding his baton like a toreador with his sword.
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It is significant the bullfighter is mounted, he says: ‘In the real story of Carmen, her second lover is not a toreador but a famous picador.’
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The humor in ‘G,’ for instance, comes from the gap between a lithe and elegant woman's body and her evocation of a bull, perhaps also a toreador, in response to verses about cowboys lassoing cattle in Argentina.
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He's a toreador, after all, and you have so much experience at bull-flinging.
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Genesis Energy Chief Executive, Murray Jackson swops his ‘captain of industry hat ‘for a toreador's montera this week assisted by Carmen opera star, Jessie Raven.’
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Her lithe, almost tomboyish figure was tightly enclosed in purple toreador trousers and a lilac blouse.
BLACK EAGLES
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Brandishing his trophies, the triumphant toreador tours the arena to the applause of the public, who hand him flowers and wine.
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At his best, the 27-year-old plays his brand of power tennis with the sort of easy grace you would usually associate with a toreador twirling his cape, waiting for the exact moment to sink the estoque between the bull's shoulder blades.
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Ramon, a famous toreador - pigheaded and full of himself - also takes an immediate interest in the fiery female.
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But there are so many bulls and nary a toreador to be seen by the portal.
