the footlights
Example Sentences
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“Can an actor cross the footlights? I thought, I bet he can.”
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2022
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 skill of a news reader does not automatically translate to the transaction that occurs across the footlights.
From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2020
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
Ignatius tossed money at the cashier and literally lunged into the Orpheum, waddling down the aisle toward the footlights.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
