Sentence examples for common spectacle from inspiring English sources

"Executions in public spaces have become a common spectacle on Fridays in [Isis power-base] Raqqa and in Isis-controlled areas of Aleppo governorate.

Public executions are "a common spectacle" on Fridays in El Naim Square or at the Al Sa'a roundabout, a United Nations human-rights commission reported last month.

That is precisely what makes the police violence that has become such a common spectacle so troubling: protest is an essential American democratic tradition, and you don't have to support the protesters (or oppose the dismantling of their camps) to condemn its forcible stifling.

But viewers were also treated to another, less common spectacle: the veiled ties and tensions between news media stars and political figures that sometimes make voters bitter, leading them to cling to political satire by the likes of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert as a way to explain their frustration.

In a report, investigators say public executions are a "common spectacle" in areas run by IS, one of the groups fighting against Syria's government.

Their report said public killings were a "common spectacle" in areas run by the jihadist group and that local people were forced to watch.

Without that clarity and tautness, the performance relaxed into an all-too-common spectacle: a black singer performing spirituals alongside a white conductor and an overwhelmingly white orchestra in front of an overwhelmingly white audience.

While Ms. Paulus's brand of theatrical engagement has become more mainstream as theaters from Seattle to New York have struggled to entice and excite new audiences, it remains controversial among purists who believe it sacrifices serious art to lowest-common-denominator spectacle.

Reality shows, like the fast-food franchising of movie characters and television shows, are just another symptom of Hollywood's current deficit of ideas: its ham-handed efforts to fill an ever deepening vacuum of ideas with cheap, lowest-common-denominator spectacles and low-risk, easy-to-merchandise sequels.

— With its cast of 700, 1,300 costumes, 10-level stage and thrill-a-minute special effects of earthquakes, floods, fireballs, airborne deities and burnings at the stake, the annual Hill Cumorah Pageant, one could argue, has more in common with the spectacle of "Spider-Man" than with the merry snark of "The Book of Mormon".

Presented as written, this 10-act "World-Historical Play" (as it is subtitled), a study of pagan-Christian conflict in the fourth-century Roman Empire, would require about nine hours and the sort of cast and spectacle common to Cecil B. DeMille biblical movies.