Sentence examples for dreadful spectacle from inspiring English sources
Those goals transcended a night of seething, spiteful, dreadful spectacle.
With his characteristic largeness of scope, Banks speaks not only to the dreadful spectacle of human violence and brutality, but also to the vexed relationship between humans and the other animals inhabiting the planet.
For these reasons, fans also complained that the unnatural grass made for a dreadful footballing spectacle.Yesterday, club chairmen of lower league sides voted on whether to maintain the grassy status quo (those in charge of clubs in the top two leagues were not balloted on a change).
"The field of Battle exhibits this morning a most shocking spectacle too dreadful to describe … Those officers who were in the Peninsula describe the battles there as mere combats in comparison with that of yesterday".
When all was over and the dust cloud had lifted, the spectacle was too dreadful to describe.
The defending might have been dreadful at times but that probably made it even better as a spectacle and an occasion.
Louise frowned at Walter from behind her tortoiseshell spectacles, in case he was about to say something dreadful.
This film is fascinating when it concentrates on apes or machines ... and dreadful when it deals with the in-betweens: humans ...2001, for all its lively visual and mechanical spectacle, is a kind of space-Spartacus and, more pretentious still, a shaggy God story".
Henry the Eighth, dying, is "a swollen, hideous spectacle, with a great hole in his leg, and so odious to every sense that it was dreadful to approach him".
