Sentence examples for curious spectacle from inspiring English sources

It was a curious spectacle, though.

AT THE TRANG TIEN PLAZA shopping mall in Hanoi, Vietnam's capital, on some evenings a curious spectacle unfolds.

Those who did get in saw a curious spectacle: an ersatz America sprawling across erstwhile Bronx swamp.

EVEN by Brooklyn standards, it was a curious spectacle: a dozen mechanical contraptions sat on a white tablecloth, emitting occasional clacks and dings.

If so, this may raise the curious spectacle of a French president fighting austerity across the euro zone, but implementing a version of it at home.

He said Australia was seen as a "curious spectacle" now as a consequence of the successive changes in leadership over the past five years.

Among the curious spectacles of our moment, the strangeness of the Obama presidency hasn't gotten its full due.

But when people like [former Clinton spokesman, now a TV political journalist] George Stephanopoulos ask Dennis Rodman about foreign policy and people are surprised he doesn't understand all the subtlety, I mean who is shocked by that?" Is it journalism in any sense, though, or just a curious, contrived spectacle?

They were respectful but surely curious at the spectacle.

It was without exception the most curious and interesting spectacle I had ever beheld".

Men and women in suits breeze by, but some passersby are curious about the spectacle.