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- noun As much as a
stage will hold.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The muffled non-sound emanating from a stageful of 16 corps de ballet beauties was a glorious occurrence.
Debra Levine: Cubans Cruise Into L.A. With Classic Don Quixote Debra Levine 2011
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The muffled non-sound emanating from a stageful of 16 corps de ballet beauties was a glorious occurrence.
Debra Levine: Cubans Cruise Into L.A. With Classic Don Quixote Debra Levine 2011
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The muffled non-sound emanating from a stageful of 16 corps de ballet beauties was a glorious occurrence.
Debra Levine: Cubans Cruise Into L.A. With Classic Don Quixote Debra Levine 2011
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Rubies, set to Stravinsky's Capriccio For Piano And Orchestra, fast forwards to 20th-century America and a stageful of jazzy dancers.
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Above all, a playwright gets to sit in the middle of a roomful of paying customers who are watching a stageful of actors perform his work.
The Playwright's Dilemma Terry Teachout 2011
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The muffled non-sound emanating from a stageful of 16 corps de ballet beauties was a glorious occurrence.
Debra Levine: Cubans Cruise Into L.A. With Classic Don Quixote Debra Levine 2011
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In that long-gone decade, the prospect of watching a stageful of black men perform a "comic" minstrel show about so hideous an event would have stung like a flogging.
A Perilous Page of History to Turn Terry Teachout 2010
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The handling of scale is masterly: a lovers 'chase can expand into a ferocious group bacchanale in a second; a stageful of violent emotion can be dissipated with a single dancer's shrug.
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At the Kennedy Center, during "Le Corsaire" 's opening marketplace scene, we saw a stageful of distinct characters, all telling their individual "stories" with wit, finesse and flair, but never play-acting hollowness.
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It is, I suppose, inevitable that Mr. Mendes's starry cast should feel less like an ensemble than an assemblage, a stageful of brilliantly gifted players who are all headed in the same general direction but at somewhat different speeds.
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