circus
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That’s not to mention the gorgeous puppetry work done by another set of performers as the play reveals a series of detailed circus animals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Co-choreographer Jesse Robb comes from a concert and theater background while his co-choreographer/circus designer Shana Carroll emerged from the circus world, having directed and choreographed for Cirque du Soleil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
But the circus around the Birkin hurts Hermès’s watchmaking ambitions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Taylor has never hidden her disdain for the circus of fight-week theatre, preferring the sanctuary of the gym.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
“We’d like that fine but I’m afraid we don’t have the time. We’re in a terrible hurry. Our circus is leaving Tulsa for Arkansas tomorrow and we have to be there.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
More than 50 countries around the world have now banned or restricted the use of wild animals in circuses, over concerns it causes them distress, external.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Although American families had been visiting small local circuses throughout the 19th century, the circuses of the 1880s and 1890s were bigger than ever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
It will be bread and circuses, only with no bread.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2024
My second takeaway is that bread and circuses — the Roman phrase for distracting the populace with spectacle — was in full force.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
“No. It’s really too late to change the choreography. But never fear. The circuses will be marvelous! Ah...not the modern sort of circus, mind you. That would require clowns, and I hate clowns.”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing circus
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