There's even audience participation when their prima donna, Madam Rodrigue, comes onstage. |
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Barbara Boothroyd is certainly up to the challenging role of a prima donna who is used to everybody bowing before her. |
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I have always been a bit of a prima donna sleeper, noise and light bother me and I have a tough time getting comfortable. |
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She was the star of the show, and she behaved like an absolute prima donna. |
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Thus Sandor quickly finds himself forced to save the skin of his prima donna, the heart of his composer and soul of his operetta. |
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But the fourth member of the original quartet, ever the prima donna, refuses to co-operate. |
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The trappings of the prima donna can never be a substitute for genuine musicianship. |
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By all accounts he is also a real team player and not the prima donna that his record might have made him. |
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Massey, who was raised in the old school of thespian behavior, thought that Dean's mood swings and prima donna behavior were unprofessional. |
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The prima donna and primo uomo each had at least one large-scale display aria in every act, followed by an exit. |
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If he is athletic and handsome and popular with girls, it's quite likely that other boys see him as some kind of hotshot or prima donna or threat. |
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Nijinsky's modern physicality created a renaissance of male dancing, a revolution that rivaled the supremacy of the diva, the prima donna, the ballerina. |
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That's changing a little, but for most guys who were star players, you're a prima donna, you should be in community relations, signing autographs at the mall. |
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But the powerful prima donna of the theatre company, a woman with a bad character and a whole network of relations, is standing in her way. |
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Conversely the fioritura-an instrumental vision of a vocal practice-is introduced as a vocal prima donna technique into the piano passage. |
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It is impossible to perform the opera without la Girò because it is impossible to find another prima donna of her calibre. |
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Powered by an acid and mineral energy an old galena radio exudes the elegies of a spectral prima donna on Baïa Ritm. |
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Also Dorothy Draper who in her day was the prima donna of the decorating business. |
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Do not try playing the prima donna, feel like the last, for the last shall be first, and you must be first. |
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Its writers are clearly anti-establishment and spare no one, whether they are powerful political figures, prima donna actresses or influential actors. |
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Though none of the artists on the roster at his own J records has shown signs of unrest, Davis knows better than most record executives the perils of the prima donna. |
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He has been accused by fellow players of being a selfish prima donna on the basketball court and has had more than a few run-ins with his coach and NBA league officials. |
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Contemporary reports from Mustique's white sands had her down as a royal prima donna insisting on protocol even while sipping cocktails in a two-piece. |
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How do you think that shyness played out during the 2008 season when he was accused of being a prima donna? |
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The enraged Boston fan base accused him of becoming a prima donna, and he left the team midseason in a wake of bad blood. |
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This family is fragile enough without you pulling a prima donna on us. |
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Giving his views on Evans's performance as a witness, the judge was scathing about his personality, describing him as intolerant with the temperament of a prima donna. |
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She looked deeply embarrassed at the prima donna antics of her charge. |
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In similar fashion, and mostly informally, the ballerina would be the prima donna of the dance world. |
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However, she received a shock on opening night when the director informed her that she was being replaced at the demand of the prima donna soprano Luisa Tetrazzini, who feared Gauthier's voice would overpower her own. |
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In opera, the informal equivalent is diva, which means a distinguished singer, but may also denote a prima donna. |
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Butterfly weeds are edging out delphiniums, clethra is hobnobbing with flowering dogwood, and sunflower is strutting like a prima donna. |
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The British journalist and historian Alistair Cooke summed up current trends in sports very neatly when he said that this was the age of the prima donna. |
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They do not, on the other hand, tolerate in themselves such traits as grouchiness, impatience, temperamental outbursts, prima donna attitudes, arrogance, favouritism, or inconsistency. |
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Five years before the story's events, Adler had a brief liaison with Crown Prince of Bohemia Wilhelm von Ormstein while she was prima donna of the Imperial Opera of Warsaw. |
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