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premiere
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  • It was the premiere school for those who aspired to high command, and though Ramius had not attended it as a student, his prowess as an operational commander won him an appointment as an instructor.†   (source)
  • That weekend was the official premiere of the Lakeview Models in the annual Back to School Fall Preview Fashion Show.†   (source)
  • And now, put your hands together for the world premiere of my new band, the Holy Rollers.†   (source)
  • We'll go to some tiny little restaurant, and at first it'll be all quiet and discreet, but then the press will find out and we'll become one of those really famous couples who go to premieres all the time.†   (source)
  • Two of the pictures were of Dr. Forbes alone; one of them had been taken at the première of a play and showed Forbes with his wife.†   (source)
  • Abigail was part of the full house the night of its premiere, April 25, when Fox was called back to sing it three more times and cheers from the audience, according to Abigail, might have been heard a mile away.†   (source)
  • Or will you dream of something a little more cosmic—zum Beispiel, playing Pierre or Andrey in a Technicolor production of War and Peace, with stunning battlefield scenes, and all the nuances of characterization left out (on the ground that they're novel-istic and unphotogenic), and Anna Magnani daringly cast as Natasha (just to keep the production classy and Honest), and gorgeous incidental music by Dmitri Popkin, and all the male leads intermittently rippling their jaw muscles to show they're under great emotional stress, and a World Premiere at the Winter Garden, under floodlights, with Molotov and Milton Berle and Governor Dewey introducing the celebrities as they come into the theatre.†   (source)
  • His words were flatly uttered and edged with the faintest frost of hostility as he said to me, without looking up, "Why don't you sit down next to the premiere putain of Flatbush Avenue."†   (source)
  • I heard the voice of Stephen Spender reciting "Vienna," and I saw Mother Courage cross the stage on the night of a Brecht premiere.†   (source)
  • He wore his general's uniform from the premiere and sat, with a fixed scowl, inside a small roped area.†   (source)
  • Jacques Saunière was considered the premiere goddess iconographer on earth.†   (source)
  • "Well," my dad said, "Hollywood premieres aren't really all they're pegged up to be.†   (source)
  • Sure enough, at the Moscow premiere of Rosotsky's fourth film with Anna as leading lady (in which, playing the part of a princess mistaken for an orphan, she falls in love with an orphan mistaken for a prince), it was noted by the savvy in the orchestra section that General Secretary Stalin, who was known so endearingly in his youth as Soso, was not smiling as wholeheartedly at the screen as he had in the past.†   (source)
  • I told Doreen I would not go to the show or the luncheon or the film première, but that I would not go to Coney Island either, I would stay in bed.†   (source)
  • The drive that made him a premiere combat soldier would come to serve the State even better behind the lines.†   (source)
  • Some of these times he only snarled at the visitors but sometimes he told about the premiere ? md the beautiful girls.†   (source)
  • He was the hit of the show," Sally Poker would say, but she didn't much like to remember the premiere on account of what had happened to her feet at it.†   (source)
  • There was only one event in the past that had any significance for him and that he cared to talk about: that was twelve years ago when he had received the general's uniform and had been in the premiere.†   (source)
  • ... I made the mistake of wearing a very elaborate gown to the premiere, a gown with a train that had to be gathered up as I rose from my seat and began the interminable retreat from the city of flames, up, up, up the unbearably long theatre aisle, gasping for breath and still clutching up the regal white train of my gown, all the way up the forever ... length of the aisle, and behind me some small unknown man grabbing at me, saying, stay, stay!†   (source)
  • When he entered, she saw him looking at the mob of guests as if he did not realize that such a mob was appropriate to a Grand Opera premiere or a royal rummage sale, not to the solemn climax of his life.†   (source)
  • At nine o'clock Madame la Premiere Presidente arrived.†   (source)
  • It was said that in the little studio in the Rue Campagne Premiere, which served him for workroom and bed-room, he had wonderful pictures which would make his reputation if only he could be induced to exhibit them.†   (source)
  • La premiere fois qu'en mon joyeux bouge Je pris un baiser a ton levre en feu, Quand tu t'en allais decoiffee et rouge, Je restai tout pale et je crus en Dieu!†   (source)
  • 'Energy is essential,' he used to say then, 'l'energie est la premiere qualite d'un homme d'etat;' and for all that, he was usually taken in, and any moderately experienced official could turn him round his finger.†   (source)
  • I have, in my day, heard /proteege/ for /protégé/, /habichoo/ for /habitué/, /connisoor/ for /connisseur/, /shirtso/ for /scherzo/, /premeer/ for /première/, /eetood/ for /étude/ and /prelood/ for /prelude/.†   (source)
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