Sentence examples for engaging spectacle from inspiring English sources

Or the perversely engaging spectacle of tail-enders coping with, and occasionally confounding, master bowlers.

This has already produced the engaging spectacle of old-stager radical Germaine Greer falling foul of this new radical chic.

Although, at twenty-five mitutes, it may have gone on a bit long, it offers the engaging spectacle of one major composer thrashing around in the sound world of another.

Michael Barker-Caven has directed Helen Edmundson's acclaimed adaptation before; he now takes full advantage of the Gate's financial and physical resources to create a lavish and engaging spectacle that is, most importantly, beautifully cast in its central roles.

Honourably, the director Mat Whitecross tries to shake up the biopic routines by intercutting animation with concert performance (Serkis does a very convincing impersonation of Dury's voice and manner), and even conjures the engaging spectacle of The Blockheads doing "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" underwater.

Along with being an engaging spectacle, the fishery brings over a million dollars to Sitka's economy -- damaged significantly when the pulp mill closed in 1992 -- "taking the town out of the darkness of winter," as Brandon Ihde, a crew-member on the Star Shadow, and native of Sitka, poetically summed it up to me the other day.

"But if we're being criticized because we've engaged spectacle or we engage popular culture in interesting ways," then it does not worry him deeply.

3. We'll ask again: Why? Has anyone on your team mentioned how much of a mockery you're making of Martin's death by engaging in this spectacle?

Joel and Ethan Coen have updated it to Texas and Britain with Colin Firth (in hornrim Caine-type spectacles) engaging Texas rodeo star Cameron Diaz to help shake down rich British bully and art collector Alan Rickman with a bogus Monet.

Pagels may also underestimate the audience appeal of pure action: it's possible for a popular narrative to be susceptible to an allegorical reading and still be engaging mostly for its spectacle.

The morning was spent gleefully bashing the entertainment industry for polluting America's culture, harming its children and generally engaging in despicable practices.The spectacle might have been even more riveting if the media moguls who were slated to appear had not suddenly found pressing engagements elsewhere.