But she did not advance much beyond the simplest steps, for the time at her disposal was short, and the art of the ballerina is not to be acquired without years of unceasing study.
How he had discharged that important trust previous to his liaison with the notorious ballerina we are unable to say.
At first, the ballerina refused, on the score of her age and the decline of her physical powers.
As the ballerina had already demanded this favour, it is probable that the announcement of her approaching resignation was merely a ruse on her part to force the Minister's hand.
Custom has settled the question of propriety, and it may be confidently asserted that it never occurs to the mind of the prima ballerina that any human being could regard her costume as indelicate.
To the prima ballerina the dancing is more important than the dance, to the actors the playing than the play, to many painters the facture than the picture, and so on.
The whole fight in Paris raged round the question whether, regardless of period or nation or style of music, the prima ballerina is entitled to wear the scanty parasol skirt and petticoats in which she delights.
My disappointment with the ballerina was as nothing, however, to my disappointment with the woman.
The great ballerinawas a living spore culture medium.
Think of the ballerina he'd been talking about--she hadn't died as the history tapes indicated.
It might have been the cell where years ago a Ballerina was immured for a wrong step.
When the tempo di minuetto had quickened to the pas seul of a Ballerina and the stage was still, Jenny stood far down in the corner nearest to the audience.
Where was that Prima Ballerina with double-fronted house at Ealing or Wimbledon, and meek, adoring husband?
Where was that Prima Ballerina Assoluta who with pitter-pat of silver shoes had danced like a will-o'-the-wisp before her imagination long ago?
You have not the fat forearm or dreadful wrist of those idiots who take their strength from them, and, thanks to me, you might even become a Prima Ballerina Assoluta.
The words of an old comic song about a girl called Di who hailed from Utah and became a Prima Ballerina Assoluta returned, with its jingling tune, to Jenny's head, while Madame was talking.
It's only theballerina who must have looks and figure.
Salle, the fame of the elder ballerina was still sufficient to have satisfied a less exacting artiste.
Moncrif, however, fearing the consequences to himself should the duchess ever discover the trick which had been played her, revealed the plot to the old lady, and so the ballerina never got the money.
The Neues Palais at Potsdam contains another portrait by Lancret, entitled La Camargo avec son danseur, which shows the ballerina in the act of executing a pas de deux with a male dancer.
The ballerina hadn't really died, as he had been told.
Primo ballerino good; prima ballerina good, and people say pretty, but I have not seen her near.
There was a ballerina who danced far from badly, and, what is a capo d'opera, she is anything but plain, either on the stage or off it.
You know, my daughter is ballerina and so even I have pictures somewhere with her.
Yes; my daughter, she was here, and she is a ballerina and she was visiting Dallas a few times and she knew some people here.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ballerina" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
