He advanced to the tin trough of the flickering gas footlights and smiled out over it at us.
I did not feel safe there; I knew I should never be safe again except in that little square of the world upon which the footlights shone, from which the tightening of the reins of the audience in my hands, should justify my life to me.
It was the only way which his purblind male instinct pointed him, to find an outlet for what goes from me over the footlights night by night.
I finally consented, and the next moment I found myself standing behind the footlights and in front of an audience for the first time in my life.
She knew the ways of it from both sides of the footlights uncommonly well, and loved them indifferently much.
If she had been left to me she would be behind the footlights by now.
Miss Nell Martel is one of the daintiest bits of femininity that have flitted behind the footlightsin many moons.
Think of all the grey, sunless, woeful existence I showed you behind the footlights not many nights since, and censure me if you can.
In the tableau of the marriage ceremony she had taken her position with reference to the locality of the box, and as near it as possible, and in the glare of the footlights the ring was clearly revealed.
Beyond the footlights a handful of sophisticated and sceptical habitues of the theatre forgot for the moment their ingrained incredulity and thrilled in sympathy with the wonderful rapture of that voice of eternal Youth.
Beyond the dismal gutter of the footlights the auditorium yawned cavernous and shadowy, peopled only by low rows of chairs ghostly in their dust-cloths.
From there, behind the scenes, the comedian in full dress could step before the footlights into salvoes of savage applause.
I wish some guy would slip me a beef-steak over the footlights some time instead of flowers.
He stood near the footlights with his eyes on the conductor, as we usually do when running over a familiar role with an unfamiliar conductor.
You simply straddled down to the footlights and took that house up in the hollow of your hand and tickled it.
He was sorely tempted, but his courage became as water at the thought of footlights and assembled listeners.
It is very sparsely furnished, but near the footlights is a large gilt couch, on which Isabelle is lying fast asleep.
Each lady showered smiles over the footlights at her avowed admirers, whilst contemptuously ignoring those who sported her rival's colours.
Buxom Scheuerlein was a very good sort, and I used to feel immensely elated at receiving in my stall a friendly nod over the footlights from Isolde, Aida, Marguerite, or Lucia, as the case might be.
The stage remained empty, and Edward Henry had time to perceive that the footlights were unlit and that rays came only from the flies and from the wings.
A man in a dirty white apron drew back the heavy mass of the curtain about eighteen inches, and Carlo Trent stepping forward, the glare of the footlights suddenly lit his white face.
Sometimes it pleased the Bibliotaph to maintain that his friend of the footlights would be in the future state a mere homeless wanderer, having neither positive satisfaction nor positive discomfort.
In the rather confined space between the footlights and the back cloth there came on a knight in armour.
The footlights were in the usual place in front of the curtain, and during the performance boys got up from their seats in the front row and lighted their cigarettes at them.
Footlights should, in this case, either be dispensed with altogether, or at any rate used very sparingly, the stronger light coming from one or the other side.
Another very important feature of the "Asphaleia" stage is the system of lighting; gas battens and footlights are dispensed with.
The floor of the stage runs from the footlights to the rear wall of the building, but usually the last few feet of the stage are not utilized by the performers, as the scenery is usually painted there in what is called the "paint room.
Then the "White Mahatma" advances to the footlights and commands his wife to speak.
The regular footlights are turned out, and a special set are used, that consist of a row of open gas jets placed on a line with the boxes, and carried up the outside of the black room, as shown in the large engraving.
By no means should the footlights be abandoned, for they would still be invaluable in obtaining diffused light even when the dominant light is directed from above the horizontal.
One of the severest criticisms of stage-lighting from an artistic point of view may be directed against the use of footlights for obtaining the dominant light.
In the present stage-lighting, in which the footlights generally predominate, the expressiveness of light is not satisfactory.
While waiting for the introduction to be played, don't count the footlights or the stars, but look out beyond the audience, rather in with your eyes and nose.
It is better to stand too near the footlights than too far back.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "footlights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
