W. S. Gilbert
W. S. Gilbert
Sir William Schwenck Gilbertwas an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operasproduced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado. These, as well as several of the other Savoy operas, continue to be frequently performed in the English-speaking world and beyond by opera companies, repertory companies,...
giving statistics narrative
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
flats
Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?
sports animal gun
Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
work peers wells
He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
milk masquerade cream
As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."
sorry world unjust
I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
men
When everyone is somebody then no one's anybody.
eight example game good half last left minutes second staying tonight
In the second half of the season, we'd get scored on and we'd get down. In these last eight or so games, we've been good at staying positive. Tonight was a good example of how we respond. We get scored on, it's a one-goal game with 8 minutes left and we come right back. We're relentless. We're never going to stop, all 60 minutes.
guy happening ourselves power prepared ready running teach work
That was our fault. We were running around. We had no idea what we were doing. It was frustrating because it was happening every power play we were out there. We didn't know what guy we had. It's something that we're going to have to go back and work on, and teach ourselves that we've got to get better prepared for any team's power play because we just weren't ready for it.
running errands treasure
The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.