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Sentence Examples Olivier was shackled with 25 pounds of chains and forced to sleep on a hard concrete prison floor for over eight years. Laurence Olivier plays Lord Nelson, and Vivien Leigh is Emma, Lady Hamilton, who becomes his lover. Rochemback outruns Olivier Bernard as they both chase a through ball into the Newcastle box. At first, Olivier refuses to take him, and then inexplicably changes his mind. In his role as professor Olivier lectured on descriptive geometry and mechanics. Olivier received an Academy award nomination for Best Actor, but lost to Burt Lancaster for his work in Elmer Gantry. Richard Hughes picks up the mount after jockey Olivier Peslier was injured this week. Olivier Messiaen was born in Avignon, France in 1908 into a highly scholarly family and showed precocious musical talent. Olivier explained that village carvers had made the sculptures in response to orders from Belgians. Fast, intelligent and a great tackler, he will be no walkover, even for players as good as Olivier Magne, Budge Pountney and Neil Back. I was driven to The Docks by my once and future boyfriend, Olivier, who works out at the gym roughly 17 times a week. What he lacks is the charisma of an Olivier, whose epochal Coriolanus is dazzlingly evoked in two pages of Kenneth Tynan's Curtains. Olivier has agreed to help him improve his French in exchange for help in English. Among the show's joys are his playful imitations of the acting techniques of the likes of theatre gods Olivier and Branagh. Peter Hall was the director and Laurence Olivier and Charles Laughton were still on the payroll. However, Walton is most remembered for his splendid scores for films starring Laurence Olivier. But when a new student, Francis arrives at the school, Olivier is obviously disquieted. Olivier Tebily and Stephane Mahe have hardly played since then and with Chris Sutton already on board, the spine of the team was taking shape. Olivier used painted backdrops of French fields and castles that were intended to suggest medieval artistic renderings. Tony Curtis plays his poor, young slave, who runs away to join up with Spartacus after Olivier puts the make on him. Show More Sentences I don't want to revisit the time when a perpetual war, as between Guelphs and Ghibellines, raged between supporters of Gielgud and Olivier. With no prompting, Olivier reminded me that people are miserable in eastern Congo. If anyone were predestined to write an opera on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi, it was surely Olivier Messiaen. A taciturn man, Olivier still grieves for his son, who was murdered during an attempted car robbery some years before. Marilyn Monroe had bought the film rights with a view to inviting Olivier to be her co-star and director. Four-time French champion jockey Olivier Peslier will ride regularly for Alain and Gerard Wertheimer beginning next year. The excellent Ned Beatty starred as Big Daddy, reprising his London role, which earned him a nomination for an Olivier Award. For a twelfth generation wine producer Olivier had a refreshing amount of enthusiasm for his subject. John Gielgud, along with his two contemporaries and friends, Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson, dominated the thespian scene for much of the 20th century. Olivier is based loosely on Alexis de Tocqueville and Parrot has affinities with Audubon. In the film, he was cuckolded by his father, played by Laurence Olivier. Indeed, Olivier had a peculiar prose style, both camp and grandiose. Olivier is scared yet intrigued, and goes forth to learn more about the ghost. The film won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Olivier. Done up in blackface, Olivier gives a very intelligent reading of the part, providing real conviction to lines that could easily have elicited laughter. The production was popular, despite poor reviews, but the expensive production did little to help the finances of Laurence Olivier Productions. Olivier dismissed the suggestion, regarding it as an insult to his integrity as an actor. Over the next four years Olivier spent much of his time working as a producer, presenting plays rather than directing or acting in them. For the Coronation season of 1953, Olivier and Leigh starred in the West End in Terence Rattigan's Ruritanian comedy, The Sleeping Prince. In 1955 Olivier and Leigh were invited to play leading roles in three plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford. Show More Sentences They began with Twelfth Night, directed by Gielgud, with Olivier as Malvolio and Leigh as Viola. Rehearsals were difficult, with Olivier determined to play his conception of the role despite the director's view that it was vulgar. Olivier was set on playing Malvolio in his own particular rather extravagant way. In their third production of the 1955 Stratford season, Olivier played the title role in Titus Andronicus, with Leigh as Lavinia. The same year Olivier decided to direct and produce a film version of The Sleeping Prince, retitled The Prince and the Showgirl. Although the filming was challenging between Olivier and Monroe, the film was appreciated by the critics. Olivier had seen the play earlier in the run and disliked it, but Miller was convinced that Osborne had talent, and Olivier reconsidered. The second of them was Joan Plowright, with whom Olivier began a relationship that endured for the rest of his life. Olivier received another BAFTA nomination for his supporting role in 1959's The Devil's Disciple. For his performance, Olivier was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 1961 Olivier accepted the directorship of a new theatrical venture, the Chichester Festival. The opening production of the National Theatre was Hamlet in October 1963, starring Peter O'Toole and directed by Olivier. It was widely remarked that Olivier seemed reluctant to recruit his peers to perform with his company. In his decade in charge of the National, Olivier acted in thirteen plays and directed eight. For the first time Olivier began to suffer from stage fright, which plagued him for several years. In the same year Olivier portrayed the Mahdi, opposite Heston as General Gordon, in the film Khartoum. At about this time Olivier began a long struggle against a succession of illnesses. Olivier was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and won the Golden Globe of the same category. In 1991 Gielgud unveiled a memorial stone commemorating Olivier in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey. Peter Hall, though acknowledging Olivier as the head of the theatrical profession, thought Richardson the greater actor. Show More Sentences Leigh and Olivier starred together in many stage productions, with Olivier often directing, and in three films. Laurence Olivier saw Leigh in The Mask of Virtue, and a friendship developed after he congratulated her on her performance. Olivier later recalled an incident when her mood rapidly changed as she was preparing to go onstage. Leigh travelled to Los Angeles, however, to be with Olivier and to try to convince David Selznick that she was the person for the part. Myron Selznick also represented Olivier and when he met Leigh, he felt that she possessed the qualities that his brother was searching for. Selznick observed that she had shown no enthusiasm for the part until Olivier had been confirmed as the lead actor, so he cast Joan Fontaine. In 1947 Olivier was knighted and Leigh accompanied him to Buckingham Palace for the investiture. After their divorce, according to the style granted to the divorced wife of a knight, she became known socially as Vivien, Lady Olivier. Olivier played the lead in Richard III and also performed with Leigh in The School for Scandal and The Skin of Our Teeth. In 1960 she and Olivier divorced and Olivier soon married actress Joan Plowright. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trio of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century. Unwilling to take sole charge, Richardson proposed a managing triumvirate of Gielgud, Olivier and himself. Olivier had a great success in John Osborne's The Entertainer in 1957, but Gielgud was not in tune with the new wave of writers. I have seen Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Alec Guinness and Peggy Ashcroft but John Gielgud is something else. In the 2007 remake of Sleuth, Caine took over the role Laurence Olivier played in the 1972 version and Jude Law played Caine's original role. Stone opposite Olivier Martinez, and Anne Bancroft, based on the 1950 novel of the same title by Tennessee Williams. Olivier Panis would take victory at the sixth round in Monaco after both Williams cars retired. Olivier later used some of these same ideas in his 1948 film version of the play. In 1937 Tyrone Guthrie directed the play at Elsinore, Denmark with Laurence Olivier as Hamlet and Vivien Leigh as Ophelia. The first film adaptation was the 1940 MGM production of Pride and Prejudice starring Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson. Show More Sentences Opening to strong reviews, the show won four Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical. In the 1969 film Battle of Britain, Dowding was played by Laurence Olivier. The Royal Ballet company is a multiple Laurence Olivier Award winning company. In 1912, when Olivier was five, his father secured a permanent appointment as assistant priest at St Saviour's, Pimlico. Olivier was devoted to his mother, but not to his father, whom he found a cold and remote parent. As a young man Gerard Olivier had considered a stage career and was a dramatic and effective preacher. His elder brother was already a pupil, and Olivier gradually settled in, though he felt himself to be something of an outsider. Olivier later speculated that it was on the strength of this that Fogerty agreed to award him the bursary. In 1926, on Thorndike's recommendation, Olivier joined the Birmingham Repertory Company. Billington ascribes this failure rate to poor choices by Olivier rather than mere bad luck. In 1930, with his impending marriage in mind, Olivier earned some extra money with small roles in two films. Olivier and Esmond married on 25 July 1930 at All Saints, Margaret Street, although within weeks both realised they had erred. Olivier returned to RKO to complete his contract with the 1932 drama Westward Passage, which was a commercial failure. Mr Olivier was about twenty times as much in love with Peggy Ashcroft as Mr Gielgud is. Gielgud had seen Olivier in Queen of Scots, spotted his potential, and now gave him a major step up in his career. For the first weeks of the run Gielgud played Mercutio and Olivier played Romeo, after which they exchanged roles. Later in the same year Olivier accepted an invitation to join the Old Vic company. Among the actors whom Olivier joined in late 1936 were Edith Evans, Ruth Gordon, Alec Guinness and Michael Redgrave. The following year Olivier appeared alongside Vivien Leigh in the historical drama Fire Over England. Olivier secured the casting of Leigh to replace Cherry Cottrell as Ophelia. Show More Sentences Back in London, the company staged Macbeth, with Olivier in the title role. After that comparative failure, the company had a success with Coriolanus starring Olivier in the title role. In 1938 Olivier joined Richardson to film the spy thriller Q Planes, released the following year. Olivier did not enjoy making Wuthering Heights, and his approach to film acting, combined with a dislike for Oberon, led to tensions on set. Olivier was tiring of Leigh's suffocating adulation, and she was drinking to excess. Richardson had gained a reputation for crashing aircraft, which Olivier rapidly eclipsed. Olivier played the warrior Hotspur in the first and the doddering Justice Shallow in the second. In the second double bill it was Olivier who dominated, in the title roles of Oedipus Rex and The Critic. Olivier played King Lear, and Richardson took the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac. Olivier would have preferred the roles to be reversed, but Richardson did not wish to attempt Lear. The production company set up by Olivier took a lease on the St James's Theatre. She left her fiance Olivier Delaloye and married Faldo in July 2001 in a lavish ceremony at his Windsor home. Meanwhile, Wanger's wish list for the film's coleads included Sir Laurence Olivier as Julius Caesar and Richard Burton as Mark Antony. Olivier Basselin wrote of the Vaux de Vire, the origin of literary vaudeville. By chance Reece met the actor Laurence Olivier, who arranged lessons with the National Theatre's voice coach. In 1996, he received a Laurence Olivier Special Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre. Olivier defended Burton by retaliating that he too received the same kind of review by the same critic for the same role. Olivier pointed out this salary was good and that he should accept the offer. Burton was to reprise the role of Colonel Faulkner, while Laurence Olivier was cast as Rudolf Hess. In 1965, after several years in repertory, he was spotted by Laurence Olivier, who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre in London. Show More Sentences He duplicated the voice of his late mentor, Laurence Olivier, for additional scenes in Spartacus in its 1991 restoration. In 2003, he was nominated for a third Olivier Award for his performance in Caligula at the Donmar Warehouse. The 2017 Olivier award winning play, Rotterdam, written by Jon Brittain, is set in the city. In 1600 Dutch corsairs under Olivier van Noort were preying on shipping entering Manila harbor. In 1907, Picasso was courting his first great love, Fernande Olivier. Pop princess Kylie Minogue has vowed the show must go on following her split from boyfriend Olivier Martinez. Olivier Bauchau as the first Igor Sikorsky Distinguished Professor in Rotorcraft. But Olivier Giroud's bicycle kick and a late header from Laurent Koscielny rescued a draw. The parcel had been addressed to Olivier Brane who was near his secretary and suffered serious injuries when the bomb exploded yesterday. A secretary in the Gouet-Jenselme law practice died and lawyer Olivier Brane was rushed to hospital with serious injuries, officials said. Artist-Makers this year included photographer Benjamin Fredrickson, ceramicist Zack Davis and pastry chef Olivier Dessyn of Mille-Feuille Bakery. Bruins coach Kathy Olivier thinks Greco needs to have a solid injury-free season overseas to show WNBA teams she is not snakebitten. Olivier and his actors are able to evoke the classic Chekhovian mood from the opening and carry it through smoothly and warmly until the end. Olivier Zahm is coeditor of Purple Prose and a frequent contributor to Artforum. On the completion of filming, Olivier and Leigh returned to Britain. It transferred to the West End in London in 2015 and won 3 Olivier Awards. Cumberbatch has received numerous awards and nominations for acting including three Laurence Olivier Award nominations, winning Best Actor in a Play for Frankenstein. In 1976, she appeared with Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates and Malcolm McDowell in a production of Harold Pinter's The Collection as part of the Laurence Olivier Presents series. In April she was named best actress at the Olivier Awards for her role. Known as The Laurence Olivier Archive, the collection includes many of Vivien Leigh's personal papers, including numerous letters she wrote to Olivier. Show More Sentences On stage, Olivier and Leigh starred in Romeo and Juliet on Broadway. Merivale first contacted her family and the next day was able to reach Olivier, who was receiving treatment for prostate cancer in a nearby hospital. In January 1940 Olivier and Esmond were granted their divorce. Selznick thought that not only was she more suitable for the role, but that it was best to keep Olivier and Leigh apart until their divorces came through. She joined Olivier for a European tour of Titus Andronicus, but the tour was marred by Leigh's frequent outbursts against Olivier and other members of the company. Olivier missed him greatly and asked his father how soon he could follow. Olivier returned her to their home in Britain, where, between periods of incoherence, Leigh told him she was in love with Finch and had been having an affair with him. An exhausted and exasperated Olivier screamed an obscenity at her and slapped her face, and a devastated Leigh slapped him in return, dismayed that he would hit her publicly. Members of the company later recalled several quarrels between the couple as Olivier was increasingly resentful of the demands placed on him during the tour. The theatricality of the services appealed to Olivier, and the vicar encouraged the students to develop a taste for secular as well as religious drama. Gerard Olivier had begun a career as a schoolmaster, but in his thirties he discovered a strong religious vocation and was ordained as a priest of the Church of England. The National Theatre's largest auditorium is named in his honour, and he is commemorated in the Laurence Olivier Awards, given annually by the Society of London Theatre. Olivier are handsome young people, they hardly act their parts at all. The 46-year-old actress, who has a daughter from a previous marriage, is expecting a baby boy with Olivier Martinez and doesn't want to take a career break after he is born. Esmond was granted custody of Tarquin, her son with Olivier. One film adaptation of Shakespeare's play Richard III is the 1955 version directed and produced by Laurence Olivier, who also played the lead role. It was the first time Olivier witnessed such behaviour from her. If Romeo were just a lovesick gumph, occasionally falling into a deeper trance in which he speaks unaccountable poetry, then Olivier is your Romeo. Nonetheless, some colleagues, particularly film actors such as Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, came to regard Olivier as the finest of his peers. A typical set will include the energy of tracks from the likes of Toolroom and the Swedish House Mafia, but also the underground tech sounds of Olivier Giacomotto and Popof. Show More Sentences Ironically enough, Laurence Olivier is less gifted than Marlon Brando. In 1977 Olivier was awarded a British Film Institute Fellowship. The play eventually won four Olivier Awards including Best Revival. He earned his third Laurence Olivier Awards nomination for the role. Directed by Olivier Megaton, this is a functional, bynumbers, kill 'em one by one thriller which offers no insights into Colombian culture other than merciless death. At Monaco, where his father had won five times in the 1960s, he led until his engine failed, curtailing his race and allowing Olivier Panis to take his only Formula One win. In 1969 Olivier appeared in two war films, portraying military leaders. Tynan considered resigning over this interference with the management's artistic freedom, but Olivier himself stayed firmly in place, and Tynan also remained. The National Theatre's largest auditorium is named after Olivier, and he is commemorated in the Laurence Olivier Awards, given annually by the Society of London Theatre. In 1967 Olivier was caught in the middle of a confrontation between Chandos and Tynan over the latter's proposal to stage Rolf Hochhuth's Soldiers. The National Theatre production of Othello was released as a film in 1965, which earned four Academy Award nominations, including another for Best Actor for Olivier. In 1944 nine Shaw plays were staged in London, including Arms and the Man with Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike and Margaret Leighton in the leading roles. The burden of playing this demanding part at the same time as managing the new company and planning for the move to the new theatre took its toll on Olivier. Lord Chandos was appointed chairman of the National Theatre Board in 1962, and in August Olivier accepted its invitation to be the company's first director. In 1963 Olivier received another BAFTA nomination for his leading role as a schoolteacher accused of sexually molesting a student in the film Term of Trial. Olivier again ignored his director and undermined his authority. Hopkins became Olivier's understudy, and filled in when Olivier was struck with appendicitis during a 1967 production of August Strindberg's The Dance of Death. Olivier later noted in his memoir, Confessions of an Actor, that. Leigh's Lady Macbeth received mixed but generally polite notices, although to the end of his life Olivier believed it to have been the best Lady Macbeth he ever saw. His performances in Amadeus at the Old Vic and Look Back in Anger at the National Theatre were nominated for Olivier Awards in 1998 and 1999, respectively. Show More Sentences He was encouraged by Guthrie, who, having instigated the appointment of Richardson and Olivier, had come to resent their knighthoods and international fame. Sheen won an Evening Standard Award for Best Actor and a Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor, and was again nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. A winner of both Tony and Olivier awards, the show has been revived innumerate times over the past 87 years and has continued to wow new generations. Olivier Messiaen built his Turangalila Symphony around the story. The city has had a huge influence on other Belgian fashion designers such as Raf Simons, Veronique Branquinho, Olivier Theyskens and Kris Van Assche. Examples from Classical Literature He is a wraithlike double of Olivier, already able to reckon up all values. He found the former commissary of police at table, in the company of Olivier and Suzanne. Olivier thought this a capital opportunity for introducing his little joke. The Thursday following, the marriage was announced to grivet, as well as to Olivier and his wife. Had Olivier and his father the least suspicion, it would have been dispelled at once by this testimony. As he spoke, Olivier looked at him fixedly, and with so straight a glance that he terrified him. Olivier and alienor are served by two barons as squires of state. Sedgwick thanked the Olivier voters with whinnies, and no one who'd seen the show had any trouble understanding him. And Olivier is serving a Christmas cracker of an afternoon tea available throughout December. Chocolate ganache and honey macaroons are just some of the sweet delights Olivier is creating along with Earl Grey or gin cocktails. Sir Lawrence Olivier struggled with debilitating stage fright for five years unbeknownst to his audience. Olivier Decamps in turn said EBRD is ready to expand and to deepen cooperation with Kyrgyzstan. Rumour has it Olivier, also 46, didn't have the gift of the Gab and a brawl broke out. Meme Mia, produced and directed by Sandy Rudd, marks her 30th year in theatre, with choreography by Haymich Olivier and musical direction by Jacus Krige. It knows that after splendid yet careful campaigns both in India and Africa he was in command against Brazil when the great Brazilian patriot Olivier issued his ultimatum. But Scarborough, who had Keith Scott sent off six minutes after the re-start, grabbed a point with a 71st minute equaliser from Frenchman Olivier Brassart. 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