Centrepiece

I hear the centrepiece is a Texan writer who will descend and will be recognised instantly as the messiah in baby form, with a little cherub’s wings and pink lipstick. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The centrepiece is a rally on Saturday against the building of a large, domed mosque, with two 55m (177ft) minarets, in the city’s heavily immigrant Ehrenfeld district. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The centrepiece was the world premiere of Stunt Doubles, a three-movement work by Gordon McPherson b 1965. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The centrepiece is a scale model referencing the English physicist Michael Faraday, baroque music and local butterflies; it consists of a mechanical flower cutter, triggered by a recording of Bach to cut a maze in a bed of genetically modified pansies. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I have to admit, that the baby pear plonked on top in a garish imitation of a centrepiece was my kitschy idea and it made me burst into hysterical laughter. ❋ Niki (2005)

The centrepiece is a domed structure with 300 feet high columns crowned with carved elephants, watching over the statues of all three Dalit icons. ❋ Dean Nelson (2011)

There are 16 new gallery spaces in the restored Victorian building, but the centrepiece is the Grand Gallery, a four-storey, 18-metre high display of over 800 objects. ❋ Unknown (2011)

My centrepiece is a slow-roasted goose, its richness cut with brandy and tomatoes. ❋ Stevie Parle (2011)

The centrepiece is a captivating installation called Ttéia "Web", nine semi-transparent rectangular prisms. ❋ Alastair Sooke (2012)

The centrepiece will be a collection of models made by the great British modernist sculptor Barbara Hepworth, who was born in Wakefield in 1903. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Many of the measures had been widely trailed but the centrepiece is another cut in the corporation tax paid by businesses - down 2% instead of the 1% previously announced. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The centrepiece will be a large canvas of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the former supermodel and singer who married the French president in 2008. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The centrepiece is the Major Oak, a huge tree - propped up by girders - which stands virtually alone in a clearing. ❋ Stephen Moss (2010)

I'd love to learn more about the knowledge mapping techniques they used, but the centrepiece was a knowledge cafe, used to develop the key focus areas for the strategy moving forward (They have only a year to complete this). ❋ Unknown (2010)

The centrepiece will be the new Main Street District, which is right now a swath of Square One Shopping Mall's parking lot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The centrepiece is a pilgrimage sequence of Tallis and Byrd Tudor music, but either side of that The Sixteen are performing a range of early sacred music which sets the extraordinary flowering of English polyphony in the 16th century in a much wider European and historical context. ❋ John Robinson (2010)