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  • When the matador realises the bull is weak and unable to charge much longer he will reach for his killing sword and seek to manoeuvre it directly in front of him with its head down, so that he can administer the death stroke.
  • Then the first of three banderilleros (usually older bullfighters who form part of the matador's team) individually run towards the bull making him charge.
  • The run is a 825-metre stampede from the corral where the bulls are kept to the outdoor bullfighting arena where they will be invariably killed by matadors later in the day.
  • Our own Hemingway wrote so much grandiose nonsense about this so-called sport that the reader feels a certain dread as the climactic spectacle approaches — a dread heightened by the awareness that Montherlant was a matador in his teenage years. Monster of Marriage
  • If they kill a matador they will still be killed themselves. The Sun
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  • What comes next is the matador and he approaches with his tight-assed, pouter-pigeon walk, flaunting his coleto, the pigtail that is the professional mark of a torero who has taken his alternativa and is no longer a novillero. There is no such thing as a bullfight
  • Today bullfighting is big business in Spain with the top matadors earning comparable salaries to the nation's top soccer stars and rock idols.
  • Having weakened the bull, the matador in this Madrid fight at the last moment refused to deliver the fatal thrust.
  • 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.
  • Apparently sensitive to criticism, the bull forgot all about the matador and charged at the drunk.
  • The hapless matador eventually managed to leave the arena under heavy police protection; the fate of the bull was not documented.
  • The run is a 825-metre stampede from the corral where the bulls are kept to the outdoor bullfighting arena where they will be invariably killed by matadors later in the day.
  • Finito has spared many bulls throughout his career in bullrings such as Córdoba, where the admiring fans have made him feel the true pride of a true matador.
  • Through the wide variety of historical photographs, paintings and statuary included, we see correspondences of silhouette, construction, color and embellishment that teach us how to "read" a design—the way, for instance, the ornate embroidery of a matador's bolero brings drama to an evening gown, or how voluminous gathers of fabric, thrillingly elegant in a sleeve or skirt, are actually a translation from the festive dress of Spanish laborers. Fashion's Eternal Flame
  • These detail the type of fight, the names of the matadors, the ranch from where the bulls are reared, and the date and time.
  • The bull was busy with the matador at the time,but it suddenly caught sight of the drunk who was shouting rude remarks and waving a red cap.
  • 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.
  • Without a doubt, the characteristic trait of this matador from Seville is bullfighting using the cape.
  • “A novillero,” I tell Hannah, “is an amateur who hopes one day to be confirmed as a matador.” The Making of Toro
  • And on the very last hole he signed off with one of about 18 feet for a birdie that brought to mind the matador's killing thrust. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is a very powerful maestro and one of the best matadors placing banderillas today.
  • The bull was killed by another matador. Times, Sunday Times
  • Another exercise in sublimely spooky, Gothy electro from the recent Matador signees. Singles file: Nicki Minaj, Crystal Castles, U.S. Royalty
  • Like the matador in a bullring, the more the crowd cheers, the more he will entertain.
  • The puntillero, 'tacker' had scuttled out with his short, sharp razor-sharp knife to cut the bull's spinal chord, the coup de grace, but as he begins his surgical insertion, the cut awakens the bull, and he rises howling and scrambling to his feet, the matador falls back, and the peones again appear. There is no such thing as a bullfight
  • Even if those horns manage a gouge here or a nick there, a matador can always depend on antibiotics to stave off serious complications.
  • Victor is a very powerful maestro and one of the best matadors placing banderillas today.
  • His only chance is to play his brutish opponent like a skilled matador plays a fearsome bull.
  • We disagree about the number of matador deaths. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Peter says, "The resemblance between Brody and the matador is really amazing! Filmstalker: Brody and Cruz in tragic Matador tale
  • The macho spectacle of bullfighting has long been an integral part of Spanish life, with the image of a colourfully dressed matador baiting a bleeding bull being one the whole world associates with the Mediterranean country.
  • From Philadelphia, Fulton was working as a novillero, hoping someday to become a full-fledged matador. Bullfighting in Mexico: The conquest of fear, Latino style
  • In their mother's room hung a replica of the matador's last suit of lights, slim-waisted and elegant, while in another room known as the chapel because of the silver retable, at which Leal had worshipped before his fights, hung suspended the head of the great Palafox bull that had killed their father. Mexico
  • The hapless matador eventually managed to leave the arena under heavy police protection; the fate of the bull was not documented.
  • In the final section the torero (star matador) engages the bull with his elegance and control, then exchanges the purple and yellow capote (large cape) for the red muleta (smaller cape) and curved sword.
  • Someone heard that matadors call their bullfight costume a suit of lights and took the concept literally. Links and linkage
  • We disagree about the number of matador deaths. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The matador observes the bull 's behaviour and character while attempting to form an emotional bond with it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Surely you've got more sense than a raging bull, charging each time you see the matador's red rag!
  • I refer of course to the fabulous matador hat she wore on holiday with her (alleged) new beau. Times, Sunday Times
  • But this time the bull isn't playing, and he charges, sending the surprised matador scurrying behind the barrera to the catcalls of the crowd, as a horn thunks into the thick wood and the bull snorts and paws around the barrera, seeking the missing man. There is no such thing as a bullfight
  • /Craig McDean/Art + Commerce A traje de luces, or 'suit of lights,' from the 1950s-60s by Fermín that was once worn by the matador Antonio Ordóñez. Between Heaven and Earth
  • This season is crucial for her, since she needs to succeed as a matador in first-class bullrings, as she has as a novillero.
  • Then the first of three banderilleros (usually older bullfighters who form part of the matador's team) individually run towards the bull making him charge.
  • From that time, it began to follow a particular sequence of events: the entrance of the bull, the picador, the banderilleros, and finally the matador (bullfighter).
  • 'Matador, "I said (always until the day he dies, a bullfighter is addressed that way)," Is it true that all bullfighters live in continual fear? Bullfighting in Mexico: The conquest of fear, Latino style
  • The basic muleta passes are the ‘trincherazo’, generally done with one knee on the ground and at the beginning of the faena; the ‘pase de la firma’, simply moving the cloth in front of the bulls nose while the matador remains motionless; the ‘manoletina’, where the muleta is held behind the body; and the ‘natural’, where the estoque is removed from the muleta, making it a smaller target. Life And Death Ritual - La Corrida
  • Add drama with flounces, lace and fringe in steamy matador looks.
  • Warm-hearted drama-doc about the matador of the links. Times, Sunday Times
  • At bullfights, the matador is given the ear of the bull as an award and then gives it to the lady of his choice.
  • The resemblance between Brody and the matador is really amazing! Filmstalker: Brody and Cruz in tragic Matador tale
  • The "hora de verdad" refers to the moment when the matador entices the bull with the "muleta" (the red cape draped over a stick) and, with the precision of the anaesthetist hitting the epidural space in an obese patient, plunges the sword into the bull's neck for the kill. Latest headlines from BMJ
  • They then escort the matadors to the enclosure, followed by the picadors - matadors on horseback.
  • The hapless matador eventually managed to leave the arena under heavy police protection; the fate of the bull was not documented.
  • The matador profiled, his thin silver blade raised.
  • The common characteristic of the matadors in this group is that they interpret bullfighting in an unorthodox manner.
  • The common characteristic of the matadors in this group is that they interpret bullfighting in an unorthodox manner.
  • Inevitably, the Front, which had proved itself a great matador, chased a foolish illusion and became the bull.
  • The lead roles are played by the bull and the matador in the arena.
  • The fight itself will last some two hours, during which time the three matadors will dispatch two bulls each.
  • Brosnan was nominated for best actor in a movie, musical or comedy, for his role as a burned-out hitman in The Matador, while Corkman Cillian Murphy won his nod for his part as a cross-dressing Irishman in Breakfast on Pluto.
  • The course ends in a bullring where the toros were to face matadors in the afternoon.
  • Almost as soon as our starter plates were whisked away, out came the next offering as fast as a matador fleeing an irate bull.
  • The fresh bull is put through its paces by the banderillos and the matadors, who will make some passes to study its movement and pace.
  • If you were to read the matadors' rankings and the corrida calendars in past issues of taurine magazines of the decade of the 80's, you would find very few names there of the matadors who have played a stellar role in the 1996 season.
  • They then escort the matadors to the enclosure, followed by the picadors - matadors on horseback.
  • Nine months later he appeared as a novillero, a novice who is not yet allowed to call himself a matador. Times, Sunday Times
  • We disagree about the number of matador deaths. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Spanish matador Daniel Luque is seen after killing a bull during a bullfight in The Maestranza bullring in Seville .
  • A Prescott speech resembles a bull charging an imaginary matador.
  • Spanish matador Oliva Soto stares at a bull during a bullfight during the San Fermin festival at Pamplona's bullring in northern Spain on July 9, 2010.
  • The target for the matador is a small soft spot at the base of the bull's hump, where the sword can penetrate directly to the heart of the bull, dropping him like a rock. There is no such thing as a bullfight
  • The matador profiled, his thin silver blade raised.
  • Then we went to sombreros and then, like, matadors - a kind of big mix of everything.
  • Even when dedicating the animal to some influen - tial person or to Lucha, a gesture always applauded by the fans who liked the idea of a matador's being in love with a singer, he seemed to be watching not the honouree but the all-important bull. Mexico
  • Shouts from her cuadrilla ricochet around the lady matador. The Lady Matador’s Hotel
  • By contrast, Masson's representations of the corrida and the dead matador preclude such personal readings.
  • Though I liked his ‘matador’ scene, he was really miscast, particularly in such a heavyweight lineup.
  • If you look at it closely there are blood stains on the embroidered jacket and this is the costume that a matador was wearing in a 1922 bull fight in which he was gored to death.
  • Each bullfight comprises six bulls and three matadors, each of whom fights two bulls.
  • One is struck by the correspondence between the ornate gold bullion that ornaments Spanish statues of the Virgin Mary and the same bullion that adorns the matador's traje de luces "suit of lights". Between Heaven and Earth
  • The performance of a matador is usually judged by the gracefulness of his movements, his tranquillity in the face of danger, and the extent to which he puts himself in danger. Life And Death Ritual - La Corrida
  • He is still only 18 and has already fought more than 200 bulls as a full matador.
  • The final figure glared at him like a bull at its matador.
  • For death - with which they all flirted, the matadors, the duelling machos, the fortune tellers - is now getting down to business.
  • The whole thing is that you don't want the matador to be killed. Times, Sunday Times
  • The lead or senior matador is Pedro de Parilla, nicknamed El Tapatio because his home town is Guadalajara. There is no such thing as a bullfight
  • The toreros perform in order of seniority with the senior matador going first and fourth, the second-ranked matador second and fifth and the least experienced fighting third and sixth.
  • In an afternoon of bullfighting, six bulls are usually killed by three different matadors.
  • The matador enters the ring alone, having swapped his pink and gold cape for the red muleta.
  • Juan Francisco Esplá is another veteran and also an outstanding banderillero; he is the most complete matador of the group.
  • The bull tossed the matador.
  • In the final section the torero (star matador) engages the bull with his elegance and control, then exchanges the purple and yellow capote (large cape) for the red muleta (smaller cape) and curved sword.
  • Embajador stands as if planted in the sand, alone, exhausted by his charges and confrontations with the picadores, visibly panting, his flanks heaving, abandoned by the matador who disappears behind a barrera. There is no such thing as a bullfight
  • However, the three toreros who participate in the Saturday f ight - matadors Calesero and Pepe Luis Visquez, and the rejoneadora Conchita Cintr6n - are real persons in the history of Mexican bullfighting; I wanted to pay my respects to three friends who helped teach me about their profession. Mexico
  • Peter Matheson, as macho and prideful as a matador, had been steeped in konjo, a Japanese word Wolf had learned many years later from his aikido sensei, which meant a distinctly masochistic obsession for physical acts that involve an enormous degree of hardship and pain. Black Blade
  • Matadors are revered as rock stars, mobbed at every turn, followed around by groupies and comfortable showing off their homes in the glossy pages of Hola!
  • Had he seen in his dreams an infernal bull bearing a matador empaled upon his horns of red-hot steel? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
  • Historically, the natural competition between two matadors that has existed in bullfighting, has always included toreros of contrasting styles and appeals, such as the classic matador against the unorthodox or charismatic one.
  • Instead you yield to him, just like the matador yields to the bull, and you use his strength and the principle of balance to bring about his downfall.
  • The hapless matador eventually managed to leave the arena under heavy police protection; the fate of the bull was not documented.
  • Apparently sensitive to criticism, the bull forgot all about the matador and charged at the drunk.
  • In the final section the torero (star matador) engages the bull with his elegance and control, then exchanges the purple and yellow capote (large cape) for the red muleta (smaller cape) and curved sword.
  • Apparently sensitive to criticism, the bull forgot all about the matador and charged at the drunk.
  • The bull looked on sympathetically until the drunk was out of the way before once more turning its attention to the matador.
  • It is as challenging as being a matador who evades a herd of raging bulls.
  • The chief matador arms himself with two banderillas and proceeds to taunt the bull by himself assuming a taurine pose, banderillas poised above the head like horns.
  • Isi katalognya memang tidak memuat lagu-lagu dari label besar, tapi semua indie label ternama seperti Matador, Barsuk dan SubPop sudah tergabung dalam AmieStreet. Planet Terasi
  • From that time, it began to follow a particular sequence of events: the entrance of the bull, the picador, the banderilleros, and finally the matador (bullfighter).
  • One of the basic passes of a matador is called the Life And Death Ritual - La Corrida
  • Meanwhile another cutthroat was charging towards him like a bull after a matador.
  • I refer of course to the fabulous matador hat she wore on holiday with her (alleged) new beau. Times, Sunday Times
  • Jakarta, (ANTARA News) - Pengamat tinju nasional Samsul Anwar Harahap berharap para petinju amatir Indonesia yang bertarung ibarat "banteng" bisa berubah menjadi "matador" saat berada di dalam ring menghadapi lawannya. ANTARA - Berita Terkini
  • A bull put to death by a matador will, in future, be considered in the same way as any animal killed outside a slaughterhouse.
  • In front of the matador is a half-ton of wild, killing animal, unlikely to stay still while the hated man, stripped now of the concealing muleta or capote, is open to a direct, or even an indirect attack. There is no such thing as a bullfight
  • In an afternoon of bullfighting, six bulls are usually killed by three different matadors.
  • Yeah, it can even be the same red that matadors use to tease the bull to charge.
  • Then the first of three banderilleros (usually older bullfighters who form part of the matador's team) individually run towards the bull making him charge.
  • Apparently sensitive to criticism, the bull forgot all about the matador and charged at the drunk.
  • The trumpets continue to sound as the matadors shadow-practice with lurid pink and yellow capes.
  • During the three-hour spectacle, we watched three matadors kill six bulls.
  • Apparently sensitive to criticism, the bull forgot all about the matador and charged at the drunk.
  • His own personal shoe wardrobe is full of matador slippers like the turquoise ones he's wearing on this day, more formal Beau Brummel-inspired lace-ups and, yes, saddle shoes. Manolo Blahnik: 'I'm Suspicious Of Platforms'
  • That exhibition demonstrated the ways in which Spain's sartorial inheritance—the matador's embroidered bolero, the flounces of Flamenco, the lace veils of Catholicism, the stark outerwear of shepherds—had been absorbed and abstracted into Cristóbal Balenciaga's masterly and vastly influential Paris couture. Between Heaven and Earth
  • The highest accolade a matador can receive is to be carried out, shoulder-high, from the ring's main gate by an excited crowd.
  • It's kind of like the bull going for a matador who has teased but hasn't put in the telling hits.
  • Eileen Smith, known quirkily around the Matador community as bearshapedsphere, is a native Brooklynite who now calls Santiago de Chile home. Matador Network

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