How to Use impresario in a Sentence

impresario

noun
  • The contest’s impresario, vividly brought to life in these pages, was Brig.
    Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The show, held in the Soho boutique of the nightlife impresario Susanne Bartsch, was paid for by his parents.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • One was Alan Freed, the impresario who helped make the song a hit by spinning it ad infinitum on the radio.
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The record label impresario was frequently caught on camera with his fists in the air.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Feb. 2023
  • These were our impresarios of style, and honored as such.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The entrepreneur and club impresario is known as one of the party purveyors of the city’s nightlife scene.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Edens leased his former home to St. Anselm, the restaurant opened by dining impresario Stephen Starr.
    Washington Post, 18 June 2021
  • One of those tracks was produced by pop impresario Jack Antonoff, with whom Morris is working on a new record.
    Dan Heching, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Its impresario, Mack Sennett, hired him for three dollars a day.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Along the way, the shaggy bearded, Zen-like impresario has picked up nine Grammy awards, most recently for his work with the Strokes.
    Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The track appears on the hip-hop impresario’s new album Khaled Khaled, which arrived today, April 30th.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Her passions are reignited by Tedros (the Weeknd), a nightclub impresario with a sordid past.
    Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Her passions are reignited by Tedros (The Weeknd), a nightclub impresario with a sordid past.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The problem with that, however, was that he had been paired with arch silliness impresario Richard Ayoade.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Tristan Tzara, the impresario of Dada, conked off on Christmas Day 1963.
    Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 7 Oct. 2021
  • So the day the music producer and impresario turned 48 years old was devoted not to his own life but to one cut short at 25, that of Donovan Lynch.
    Alex Bhattacharji, Town & Country, 2 June 2021
  • To the street-art impresario Steve Lazarides, Invader is a purist in a milieu awash in easy money and obvious gags.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • When Martin arrived to inspect the damage a few weeks later, Danny Sweeney recounts, the impresario opened the piano to look at the keys.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Then its wonderful impresario, Joan Bayen, died in April after 81 years working the bar.
    Ted Weesner, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
  • Wong fell in with a Hong Kong fashion designer and impresario, Kevin Poon, who took him partying late into the night.
    Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
  • In 1983, Atlanta cinema impresario George Lefont swooped in to save the place from likely death and transformed it into more of an art house.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 14 Mar. 2022
  • What comes through in this sometimes sobering portrait is that the impresario was overextended.
    Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2020
  • After being hustled by a bad impresario, she and her dancers were stranded in Vienna without the funds to come home.
    Ariel Shapiro, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2021
  • As the countdown to the May 15 telecast begins, the impresario has already started raising the curtain a bit about what’s been happening behind the scenes.
    Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 12 May 2022
  • Music impresario Clive Davis who helped to guide the singer's career is also producing.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Gates has long been linked in public consciousness with Apple impresario Steve Jobs.
    NBC News, 17 May 2021
  • Manuel Marin, the grocery chain impresario, was accused of hiring a former boxing promoter and two mixed martial artists to carry out the deed.
    Mario Ariza, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Needless to say, there is no longer any single television impresario with that kind of omnipotence.
    Lisa Birnbach, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
  • Beyoncé: At the moment, music impresario Quincy Jones has 28 statues and holds the record as the living person with the most Grammys.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Moshe Ludlow is a wannabe impresario from Romania married to Chona, a polio survivor with a pronounced limp.
    Ron Charles, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023

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