the footlights

Example Sentences

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With heels stomping and her hair waving, she owns the stage to such a degree that you half expect bank lenders to materialize by the footlights to sign over the deed.

From Washington Times • Mar. 24, 2021

The love flowing over the footlights might be addictive, but it comes at an unfathomable cost, twin realities that Zellweger expresses with subtlety and skill.

From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2019

And what we see, in their faces and bodies, and feel — in the less easily described energy that reaches across the footlights — is a harsh and beautiful muddle.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2019

From the audience side of the footlights, it's immediately clear that this rooming arrangement will end badly.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2017

At the time no one even knew for certain that the footlights ought to be up; all there was then was Manchuria, the shock that in a way was no shock.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen