Gilbert and Sullivan

Examples

• All

• He lent them books and made them listen to Gilbert and Sullivan.

  Fiction book (1999)

• As I stated at the outset, I fell in love with Gilbert and Sullivan at a tender age and imbibed all the words and music before I could possibly understand their full context and meaning.

  Academic text (2000)

• We tried this last year when our choir prepared a touring performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury.

  Academic text (1994)

• Faisal was our lifesaver, our miracle worker, and our biggest local authority on the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, though back then we were all too busy to listen to music and much more likely to listen to that 15-minute wonder, Polka.

  Fiction book (2001)

• I remember, for example, a friend of my aunt's who wore extraordinary, brilliant spots of orange rouge, round as dollars, on her cheeks, applied over a base of powder white as a geisha's face in a Gilbert and Sullivan opera.

  Fiction book (1996)

• So "perhaps it would be wise not to carp or criticize," as the Sergeant of Police once remarked in a different context (in Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance).

  Academic text (2000)

• "The Pirates of Penzance" is considered one of the most popular works of Gilbert and Sullivan.

• Our theater group is staging a production of Gilbert and Sullivan operas this summer.

• Many people enjoy the comedic style and clever lyrics found in Gilbert and Sullivan musicals.

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology