Steal limelight from

Usage examples of upstage.

Reverend Juniper Jackman, who had come to Abominadad to upstage and liberate Cooder, only to end up his cellmate.

It upstaged Ragnarok, dwarfed Armageddon, mocked Apocalypse, overshadowed the Qiyamah, outdid the Kali Yuga, ruined the prophecy of Maitreya Buddha.

I N S I L E N C E 139 Not to be upstaged, Ben insisted on taking us out for a walk.

Yet even they were upstaged by the main attractions of the gathering, a dozen or more sachems and warriors of the Caughnawaga Indians in full regalia who had been invited to dine, together with their wives and children.

BAGBY faces THOMAS, upstaging him, to darkness and silence which, after a moment, is broken by the distant sound of cannon.

One beefy man well over six feet tall, in an elegant cowboy hat, polished cowboy boots, a pin-striped suit and a western string tie, capsulizes the matter so: "I'm an unholy son of a bitch if those amazing fucking Jews haven't gone and fucking upstaged the Bicentennial!

White columns rise on the veranda, running from downstage left to upstage left center.

The parlour carries through the stark elegance of the house, with plain chairs flanking a sideboard upstage right center, a fireplace with long straight mantel at right, and the corner of a spinet showing at downstage right.

At downstage left center a rather ponderous desk littered with mail and newspapers, two chairs, and the effect of being partitioned off in a large glassed enclosure from the rest of the office beyond, reached by a glass-paneled door upstage right.

Neatly but unostentatiously dressed, THOMAS is standing at a window left staring out, as MR BAGBY advances from upstage right toward downstage center desk.

He's doing the downstage lights, his assistant will take care of upstage.

It has been suggested that this may be the result of being upstaged by Conrad, Maugham and others whose more extensive and perhaps more profound explorations of similar exotic territory have become better known.

A lavish, fabulous occasion, attended by lavish and fabulous people-politicians, diplomats, ambassadors, even the odd scion of some royal family tree here and there, very odd-and all of them upstaged by their surroundings.

Now that every knight in Poland was flying kites, Count Lambert had to upstage them all with a hot air balloon.

A canopy partially covers the stage, supported by the primary structure upstage and two narrow columns about halfway downstage.