(n.) A reception, or a musical or dramatic entertainment, held in the daytime. See SoirEe.
Example Sentences:
(1) But that one picture in 1954, George Cukor's musical remake of A Song Is Born , in which she played a rising young actress married to a sinking matinee idol (James Mason), proved to be the peak of her career.
(2) Imagine a huge, invisible mass of carrier waves, at the leading edge of which, and already past several thousand stars by now, is the smooth, matinee idol voice of BBC Television's first announcer, Leslie Mitchell, saying: "Hello Radiolympia.
(3) Hudler wasn't wrong: in the two nights leading up to the matinee squeaker, KC exploded for 22 runs, annihilating two pitchers you may be familiar with – Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer.
(4) He plays the best friend of a matinee idol in 1920s Hollywood.
(5) I too had time off at this point and, one matinee, I was alone in my dressing room, which was three floors up from the stage.
(6) Gene Hackman and George C Scott weren't matinee idols but they became movie stars.
(7) Five hours earlier he had fought for the first time on American soil at the 5,500-seat theatre adjacent to Madison Square Garden, stopping Philadelphia’s Steve Cunningham in the seventh round with a thudding right hook, a matinee shown on free-to-air NBC for a prime-time broadcast in the UK.
(8) "I remember him first as quite a smooth matinee actor.
(9) Stars with style Brad Pitt Born Shawnee, Oklahoma, US Age 41 Career highlights Johnny Suede, Fight Club, Ocean's 11 Career lowlights Seven Years in Tibet, Meet Joe Black Why he matters 'He combines the matinee idol looks of Gary Cooper with the sex symbol loveliness of Marilyn Monroe' Frank Gehry Born Toronto, Canada Age 76 Career highlights Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; Walt Disney concert hall, Los Angeles Career lowlights Experience Music Project, Seattle Why he matters 'One of the most prominent contemporary American architects with his open, curvilinear, diverse and sometimes playful west coast style'.
(10) If the World Cup were a movie … heroes and villains Matinee idol If anyone worried that being the best footballer on the planet and dating a supermodel might be taking its toll on Cristiano Ronaldo, then his torso-rippling display in the Champions League final put such notions to bed.
(11) With his solemn gaze and luxuriant black moustache, he has the air of a matinee idol.
(12) Certainly, with his five o'clock shadow, there is something of the fading matinee idol about Van Hove.
(13) Happily Nicola Sturgeon, the deputy first minister, was on hand to pierce the monotony with an electrifying Friday matinee performance.
(14) It is impractical for the Globe and Wanamaker ever to offer the same script on alternate evenings in its open-air and closed venues – educative as the comparison would be – or, except at occasional matinees, to perform at exactly the time – 2 to 5pm in the afternoon – that would have been used in Jacobean times.
(15) Brave and witty, he appeared to the LA community to be a throwback to an earlier age, an English gentleman cricketer perhaps, or to the more susceptible ladies, a matinee idol.
(16) Mixing elegant retro chic with wry humour, Swoon made an uncomfortable case for its two protagonists as gay antiheroes, cold-hearted killers with the looks of matinee idols.
(17) A flick through the photographs in her current retrospective exhibition in LA reveals her transformed into 20 kinds of matinee starlet, Hitchcock lead, pneumatic Monroe, terrified centrefold, crime-scene corpse, old master muse, cut-up sex doll, Republican wife, clown; both as determinedly absent and iconically present in her work as Andy Warhol once was in his.
(18) Scofield, more craggily noble in appearance than handsome, always looked more mature than he was (he once said that he had bags under his eyes by the age of 17) and even at this tender age his features had a timeless rather than matinee idol appearance that allowed him to play parts intended for actors much older.
Theatrical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a theater, or to the scenic representations; resembling the manner of dramatic performers; histrionic; hence, artificial; as, theatrical performances; theatrical gestures.
Example Sentences:
(1) At a theatrical device, it's a remarkable idea that a character will break the fourth wall.
(2) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
(3) "We are trying to create a theatrical version of The Arabian Nights which will do justice to the scale, depth and richness of the stories."
(4) Me and Taika would always do theatrical stuff, running around, miming, putting on voices.
(5) Dexter was a consummate theatrical craftsman and Lindsay was, in one form, a sort of poetic director.
(6) In 1997, the Globe was hardly the first space to challenge theatrical orthodoxy, but it was the first to return the event so wholeheartedly to the audience, and the first to do so in a way that felt so essentially English.
(7) Despite his Catholic upbringing, Clare lost his religious belief as a young man, saying he could not believe in a god that could cause famine, genocide and air crashes, although he admitted to missing the theatricality of the Catholic church.
(8) If someone’s able to keep such a stony-faced expression, it’s either high theatrics or they have no sympathy,” she added.
(9) Everyone was hooked to the drama and theatricality of it all.
(10) Young companies have woken up to the fact that puppetry isn't just a way of putting an extra actor on stage without paying food and accommodation costs, but a brilliant theatrical tool.
(11) Of all the senior clergy of the Church of England, she is arguably the least theatrical.
(12) Sharknado, a satirical disaster film featuring man-eating sharks let loose on Los Angeles by a freak cyclone, premiered on SyFy in 2013 and became a cult hit, gaining some traction later as a theatrical release.
(13) In fact, Guinness was an actor for a new theatrical style, subtle and undecorated.
(14) The costumes look remarkably grand for home theatricals, the jewellery is startlingly convincing, and the band evidently comprises moonlighting members of the Royal Horse Guards.
(15) His recognition of the theatrical value of its decay saved it from destruction.
(16) Theatrically backdropped by conical Great Sugarloaf mountain, the estate is landscaped with terraces, lakes and ponds, and also embraces the country's highest waterfall.
(17) And, although there are a few coups de théâtre (at one point the sky rains white balloons), audiences may be split over whether Van Hove has found a potent enough theatrical equivalent to Antonioni's visual poetry.
(18) When he finally deigned to sit down formally, it was in typically theatrical fashion: after midnight, on a big bed in a five-star suite, the Monte Carlo casino winking beneath our balcony, the ocean sighing behind us.
(19) The idea of the vampire as a silver-tongued aristocrat, like Count Dracula, is mirrored in Irving's thespian mannerisms, and his fascination with theatrical villains.
(20) She returned here and auditioned for Bernard Delfont , the huge theatrical group – it was a cattle market in those days.