Sentence examples for comic spectacle from inspiring English sources

Overlooking the moral squalor, what a splendid comic spectacle.

WHAT is sure is that Mr. Sergeant was no novice in making a comic spectacle of himself.

As recreations go, it is no Hollywood disaster epic, yet there is a certain horror in this comic spectacle.

Still, Mr. Poppleton, a longtime booking agent for national tours of Broadway and Off Broadway productions, managed to assemble ads highlighting quotes like "flamboyant comic spectacle" (Associated Press) and "instant gold" (Logo TV).

He specialized in satiric tableaus and sharp social commentary directed at big business, political corruption, militarism and racism, with something left over for the comic spectacle of the human race on parade.

I remember feeling sorry for the victims, and at the same time sorry for everybody who wasn't there to enjoy the free comic spectacle of all those helpless bumper cars and spectacular Buster Keaton pratfalls.

The "comic spectacles" described above might not have been so comic at all had I nearly crashed a rental car into a decoy bus or scored an interview with Ms. Palin only to learn that she was in fact the impersonator.

This resulted in some comic spectacles that included Ms. Palin's using her bus as a decoy at the back entrance of a hotel in Pennsylvania so she could slip out a side entrance; or encountering a Sarah Palin impersonator in Boston and instructing her to "go talk to all these reporters" on her behalf.

If it had not been so dangerous it would have been comic: the spectacle of a handful of old men popping up one after the other to – to do what?

In that respect, it's another comic-horror spectacle.

The bomb-a-minute postmodern comic-book spectacle from the Batman franchise or the madcap story of a mother-daughter search for lost loves and lost fathers set to Abba songs on a Greek island.