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Staircase in sentence

256 examples of Staircase in a sentence

The ominous shadow on the staircase signals trouble of a most horrific nature, Kane reacts, and the scene plays out to its grim conclusion.
I saw this movie on TV a LOOONG time ago, and the other day I just kept thinking of this Chuck Norris flick where there was a fight scene where it was nothing but silhouettes in a neon light background on a staircase.
And it also leads directly to the best conclusion (I feel) in movies in terms of proper cinematography: the clouding of the focus as Norma Desmond descends the staircase into her madness.
It is sumptuous on every level, and when a first-time viewer sees that staircase, a "WOW!" is to be be expected.
There's a famous photograph of Arbuckle in evening dress, gaping in horror as he drops Mabel Normand down a staircase.
But the film is surprising because Hitchcock manages to have absolutely no staircase, no flights of steps, with or without mezzanines, and yet don't believe me that easy because it is not flat country indeed.
just absolute piece of utter drivel..although I admit I only lasted about half an hour somewhere in the middle You can't even call this rubbish... for instance, I caught the scene where they are supposedly digging in the wrong place, find the right place (72 steps, but no ones counting) and about 20 metres away the heroine brushes away a few CMOS of sand BY HAND and uncovers the tomb....a few rubbishy sentences later we see someone put a dynamite YES DYNAMITE stick in the very same sand, it blows up, and you have this beautiful SQUARE HOLE with nice clean staircase going down to the tomb.
But I was unable to dismiss the stature of the actors amid much of the non-dwarfed surroundings: There is a point when a saloon singer is obscured by a bannister as she descends a staircase.
The Georgetown house and infamous staircase couldn't save this.
Also, Kevin Costner's acting was terrible, as always; Ness' 'team' was extremely lame, and the scene with the baby on the staircase was just asinine.
It was his contention that Kathleen slipped and fell on a staircase in their home after an evening of wine and relaxation, while the prosecution maintained that Mr. Peterson had bludgeoned his wife, and positioned the body to appear as an accident.
The film is good, but plays more as a parody of Flynn's former films such as Robin Hood, Sea Hawk, etc., with little emphasis on action until the final reel, which gives us one of filmdom's best sword fights with Flynn vs. Douglas and his men on the staircase.
Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.
My enduring memory is awakening to a shrieking ruckus in the corridor, where an enormous GI was beating a half-naked local girl with a broom handle down the staircase.
Governments can help to persuade companies to let go of their cash by removing regulatory barriers such as zoning regulations in retail and a plethora of requirements in the construction sector concerning everything from the height of ceilings to the size of staircase areas.
This hotel had already reached this stage: everything – the soldier in a dirty uniform smoking a cigarette at the front door, acting as a hall-porter, the dismal and unpleasant ornamental cast-iron staircase; the free and easy waiter in a dirty dress coat, the general room with a dusty bouquet of wax flowers decorating the table, the dust and slovenliness everywhere, mingled with a kind of modern, self-satisfied railway-induced state of bustle.
The facts of the matter were that in the new wing that was being built the carpenter had spoilt the staircase, having made it without calculating the elevation, so that when it was put in position all the steps sloped.
Now he wanted to use that staircase, adding three steps to it.
You see it will start from the bottom and go up and up and just reach.'Levin pulled out his ramrod and drew the staircase in the dust.
Ascending the broad cast-iron staircase to the landing, they entered the first large room.
A heavy step had tramped up the staircase; then there was a kind of soft fall, followed by a sigh of satisfaction.
Zacharie and Jeanlin were already going down; he followed them, and the wooden staircase creaked beneath their heavy feet, clad in wool.
Near the staircase door another door led to the cellar.
But a voice came from the staircase, of which they had left the door open.
After having mounted a dark and half-destroyed staircase, he found himself on a shaky footbridge; then he crossed the screening shed, which was plunged in such profound darkness that he walked with his hands before him for protection.
Then, like their sister, they disappeared up the staircase naked.
"What are you doing up there?" cried Maheude, up the staircase.
"Can I come down yet?" asked Catherine, from the top of the staircase.
But from the other side of the staircase alarmed voices were whispering; and when he came out he saw his daughters' door open, and they both appeared in white dressing-gowns, slipped on in haste.
There was some hesitation when Deneulin showed himself at the top of the staircase which led to the receiving-room.
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