Sentence examples for Mere spectacle from inspiring English sources
So far, the trial has provided more than mere spectacle.
Halperin recognizes that it is corrosive for the press to treat a campaign as mere spectacle.
Meanwhile, there's Mr. Blagojevich: jobless, no longer master of his fate and relegated to mere spectacle.
He had been asked, at a news conference, to comment on a view that his designs are mere "spectacle".
But I suspect that some who dismiss this musical as mere spectacle have never actually seen or heard it.
JOHANNESBURG — By the extravagant standards of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, his birthday bash on Saturday was a modest affair, a mere $250,000 spectacle with but 3,000 people attending and a cake said to weigh approximately 187 pounds.
The effort is no mere record-setting spectacle.
The event was too important, he believed, to become a mere show-business spectacle.
Science fiction writer Chris Claremont ("X-Men") views Jackson's as a rare "intimate epic," in which the spectacle is mere "eye candy," however awesome an army of 100,000 on a 70mm screen.
Live animals and blazing guns made the show more of a spectacle than a mere stage play.
