English vocabulary examples in context: ballet
Vocabulary in context: ballet -- Example 1.
They were of the kind which pleases mostly middle-aged bachelors and old men who are accustomed to seek in the ballet and similar frivolities a further spur to their waning passions.
Vocabulary in context: ballet -- Example 2.
Next, his delight led him gracefully to execute a hop in ballet fashion, so that the wardrobe trembled and a bottle of eau-de-Cologne came crashing to the floor.
Vocabulary in context: ballet -- Example 3.
Such a swift recovery of his treasures delighted him beyond expression, and, gathering new hope, he began once more to dream of such allurements as theatre-going and the ballet girl after whom he had for some time past been dangling.
Vocabulary in context: ballet -- Example 4.
It was said that some foolish young prince, name unknown, had suddenly come into possession of a gigantic fortune, and had married a French ballet dancer.
Vocabulary in context: ballet -- Example 5.
This was contradicted, and the rumour circulated that it was a young merchant who had come into the enormous fortune and married the great ballet dancer, and that at the wedding the drunken young fool had burned seventy thousand roubles at a candle out of pure bravado.
Vocabulary in context: ballet -- Example 6.
Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this made a part of his bourgeois popularity.
Vocabulary in context: ballet -- Example 7.
Since the revolution, everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian.
Vocabulary in context: ballet -- Example 8.
He did not distinguish what sort of love his might be, big or little, passionate or passionless, lasting or passing (he kept a ballet girl himself, though he was the father of a family, so he was lenient in these matters), but he knew that this love affair was viewed with displeasure by those whom it was necessary to please, and therefore he did not approve of his brother's conduct.
Vocabulary in context: ballet -- Example 9.
Besides the gift of the necklace he wanted to arrange with her about meeting after the ballet.
Vocabulary in context: ballet -- Example 10.
After explaining that he could not come at the beginning of the ballet, he promised he would come for the last act and take her to supper.
Vocabulary in context: ballet -- Example 11.
Literature was in the service of the censorship; military drill was all that was taught at the universities; the troops were trained like a ballet, and the peasants paid the taxes and were mute under the lash of serfdo
