the footlights
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With heels stomping and her hair waving, she owns the stage to such a degree that you half expect bank lenders to materialize by the footlights to sign over the deed.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 24, 2021
The skill of a news reader does not automatically translate to the transaction that occurs across the footlights.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2020
And what we see, in their faces and bodies, and feel — in the less easily described energy that reaches across the footlights — is a harsh and beautiful muddle.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2019
The theater requires intellectual and emotional commitment on both sides of the footlights, and nothing sparks participation quite like the recognition that comes from seeing oneself in a wider frame.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2017
Ignatius tossed money at the cashier and literally lunged into the Orpheum, waddling down the aisle toward the footlights.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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