Sentence examples for devoted to spectacle from inspiring English sources

Given that it's Super Bowl Sunday, a day devoted to spectacle, it might make some sense to talk about something incredible Vonta Leach has done — something like the block he made last year, in his very first regular-season play as the fullback for the Baltimore Ravens, when he set running back Ray Rice free to carry the ball thirty-six yardownfieldeldownfield

In its more fantastic images (such as the pearl hunt, or a massive air battle among armed baloons), the film suggests Melies, though it is a little less ingenious and a little more devoted to spectacle than to the appre ciation of how things work.

By Alex Koppelman February 3, 2013 Given that it's Super Bowl Sunday, a day devoted to spectacle, it might make some sense to talk about something incredible Vonta Leach has done — something like the block he made last year, in his very first regular-season play as the fullback for the Baltimore Ravens, when he set running back Ray Rice free to carry the ball thirty-six yardownfieldeldownfield

Web sites are devoted to the spectacle, often providing blow-by-blow descriptions, declaring winners and ranking the teenage fighters.

With a second act entirely devoted to the spectacle of a powerful man forcing himself sexually on a woman, Tosca should have a shocking relevance in the #MeToo era.

This is followed by a gallery devoted to "Business, Collaboration and Spectacle" in which works by Warhol, Mr. Koons and Takashi Murakami compete for space.

He may be a bumbling incompetent -- much of the movie's running time is devoted to the ostensibly hilarious spectacle of Mr. Kattan dropping things -- but he's very lucky, and his presence on the scene aids the bureau immeasurably in its investigation of a notorious drug dealer.

So deeply internalized is our obedience to this most capricious despot that artists create passionate odes to its cruelty, and audiences seem never to tire of the most deeply unoriginal mass spectacles devoted to rehearsing the litany of its torments, fixating their very beings on the narrowest glimmer of its fleeting satisfactions.

Women's Wear Daily called last month's event, with 14,000 shareholders and employees, "a high-octane, entertainment-filled spectacle with moments devoted to business".

Ziegfeld's stage spectacles were often devoted to glorifying feminine beauty.

Her Drowned World Tour, which started its sold-out five-night run on Wednesday night (through Tuesday) at Madison Square Garden, is a 105-minute pop spectacle as performance art, devoted to the idea that Madonna can do what she wants.