Sentences with corrida
cor·ri·da
C c - [ … ] El Juli, a young and already much-admired torero, takes risk after risk until he is gored, drops to the sand and is helped up by Enrique Ponce Martinez - Spain 's leading matador and his partner for the afternoon's corrida.
- Soon after, someone asked him to write a nonfiction account of the corrida de toros, or traditional Spanish bullfight.
- At the beginning of the bullfight, or corrida, the torero sizes up the bull while performing certain ritualized motions with his cape.
- In the field of bullfighting this verb is the quintessential factor in a well-fought corrida, and it has a lot to do with the rhythm of the bull's charge.
- Undeniably the most gruesome part of the corrida, this suerte de picaris is intensely disliked by aficionados.
- It is a ceremony that is carried out in carefully pre-arranged steps, as called for by the tradition of the corrida, each stage with its own name, and which the aficionados in the crowd will know by heart.
- Would that make you feel any better, climbing into the corrida with just a cape and a sticker?
- A corrida starts with a parade of all the contestants and bailiffs dressed in 17th century costume, who salute the president of the fight.
- He opened the door for many a young man to test their skills and offer their blood on the corrida s of Spain.
- By contrast, Masson's representations of the corrida and the dead matador preclude such personal readings.
- On one occasion, traveling to a corrida in Andujar, he turned to his banderillero and announced he was going to do something that afternoon no one had ever seen before.
- As a bullfighter he had little natural grace, and limited ability, but he brought such pluck and valor to the corrida and became a favourite matador of Andalusia, of which Sevilla is the capital.
- During the '95 season in Spain, the record of the number of corridas held was broken.
- There are many variables that should be considered in predicting the chances that a matador has for succeeding in the immediate future, besides the ranking of matadors by the number of corridas fought and trophies obtained.