Sentence examples for fine spectacles from inspiring English sources

Hit the road New England (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island) is justifiably popular for leaf peeping, but the Blue Ridge Parkway that passes through Virginia to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee has some equally fine spectacles – and fewer crowds.

This weekend fans of the Passion genre can rest assured that the age-old story will be unfolding for the second year running on Brighton's coastline – a fine spectacle to watch over a pasty and chips.

Why not just buy a bottle of wine or orangeade, ask for some plastic cups, and sit on the benches lining Michelangelo's Palazzo Farnese, watching the fine spectacle of tourists, locals and clerics that is Rome?

The vast majority were lapwings: looking rather tatty in their post-breeding plumage, but still providing a fine spectacle as they took to the air and wheeled around nervously whenever they were disturbed.

Then in an abrupt swerve out of control, with a bang she brings down the world she and Román inhabit (the collapse of Rocío Matosas's set is a fine spectacle), leaving you wondering whether you have not misunderstood the whole play up to that moment, and then, more subversively, whether you can ever know who is mad who is not.

The stakes were low, with nothing to lose except the dubious right to boast "We're No. 3," but a pleasurable tension built as the game shaped its own fine spectacle, thanks to the evenness of the sides and the brio and daring of the players, who (it seemed to me) started out sullen and ended up surprising themselves by playing for the sheer joy of it.

Maybe I'm biased because I'm into that whole DJ scene, or at least pretend to be, but it made for a fine spectacle.

Watching a battle between a snarling fast-bowler and a fearless batsmen at close quarters is one of the finest spectacles in sport precisely because of this tension.

And no better way to see what Benjamin Franklin in 1765 called "one of the finest spectacles of nature" on an off-season budget.

I think a large black boar, oiled for the show, was one of the finest spectacles at a country rare-breeds fair.

But the words of the Le Figaro critic who'd witnessed the dress rehearsal must have echoed in the Parisians' minds: "Tomorrow Paris will see, conjured up by magic, one of the finest spectacles with which it has ever been presented".