Sample Sentences for
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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    His range was astonishing and I had constantly to remind myself that I was talking to a scientist, a biologist (I kept thinking of a prodigy like Julian Huxley, whose essays I had read in college)—this man who possessed so many literary references and allusions, both classical and modern, and who within the space of an hour could, with no gratuitous strain, weave together Lytton Strachey, Alice in Wonderland, Martin Luther's early celibacy, A Midsummer Night's Dream and the mating habits of the Sumatran orangutan into a little jewel box of a beguiling lecture which facetiously but with a serious overtone explored the intertwined nature of sexual voyeurism and exhibitionism.  (source)
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    They introduced most of the children of our generation to the theatre, dressing us up in costumes for The Mikado, A Midsummer Night's Dream—all of which Dolly made herself.  (source)
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    He said it was like A Midsummer Night's Dream, like magic.  (source)
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    Woody Allen reworked A Midsummer Night's Dream as his film A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy.  (source)
    A Midsummer Night's Dream = popular Shakespeare comedy about lovers, actors, and fairies
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    Now, so far as the English-speaking countries go, this is not true; Several of the plays which are most valued by lovers of Shakespeare (for instance, TIMON OF ATHENS) are seldom or never acted, while some of the most actable, such as A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, are the least admired.  (source)
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    A tall man of about thirty and with thinning hair was sitting at a small brown piano, and he played the "Wedding March" from A Midsummer Night's Dream—three times in a row; and when a few of the ladies begged him, he first gazed deeply and silently into the eyes of each, one after the other, and started playing the melody yet a fourth time.  (source)
    A Midsummer Night's Dream = incidental music composed by Felix Mendelssohn specifically to accompany performances of the Shakespeare comedy about lovers, actors, and fairies
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    My boyfriend's gotten a grant from the city and he's putting on a black production of A Midsummer Night's Dream this weekend.  (source)
    A Midsummer Night's Dream = popular Shakespeare comedy about lovers, actors, and fairies
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    Carter envisions a film production of A Midsummer Night's Dream more disastrously hilarious than anything the "rude mechanicals" of the original could conceive of, the results recalling the real-life all-male film version from the 1930s.  (source)
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    ...the tall gentleman with the thinning hair who could play selections from A Midsummer Night's Dream  (source)
    A Midsummer Night's Dream = incidental music composed by Felix Mendelssohn specifically to accompany performances of the Shakespeare comedy about lovers, actors, and fairies
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    Even his titles tell us seasons matter with him: A Winter's Tale, Twelfth Night (that is, the last of the twelve days of Christmas), A Midsummer Night's Dream.  (source)
    A Midsummer Night's Dream = popular Shakespeare comedy about lovers, actors, and fairies
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    ...the same fellow who occasionally played the piano at their evening social gatherings, usually the "Wedding March" from A Midsummer Night's Dream.  (source)
    A Midsummer Night's Dream = incidental music composed by Felix Mendelssohn specifically to accompany performances of the Shakespeare comedy about lovers, actors, and fairies
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