Sentence examples for less spectacle from inspiring English sources

If so, you may need a little more old-fashioned art and a little less spectacle and commerce in your museum experience.

Once the thunder clears in the meandering opening portion, the picture levels off to a viable yarn of royal intrigue and adventure, with an evil Prime Minister menacing a baby prince who grows to handsome manhood and eventually routs him.There is less spectacle than usual but the music flows continually, with arias ripely delivered at the drop of a hat, tear or sword.

Greer's contributions a resin doughnut and a coffee cup are less spectacle and more symbolic of his relationship with the city.

The "Palio system" will now undergo "a drastic diet", which may permit a return to humbler times: "less glamour and more humanity, less spectacle and more ritual". .

The "Palio system" will now undergo "a drastic diet," which may permit a return to humbler times: "less glamour and more humanity, less spectacle and more ritual".

On the anniversary of its gift, Qatar is working to ensure that its contribution isn't forgotten -- but to commemorate it in a way that causes less spectacle and drama than a monarch's speeding around a still-hurting city in a motorcade.

George White and his annual Scandals put more emphasis on comedians and girls and less on spectacle for its own sake.

Halfway through, however, the film subsides into a mess, exchanging patter for the less amusing spectacle of bullet wounds and bursting heads.

The nobles could appreciate the poetry, whilst the groundlings focused on the less subtle spectacle of stage and swells alike, and threw things at the thesps.

Otherwise our political party game beamed live from the US is less summer spectacle, and more harbinger of our own, collective nightmare.

Silence often drove scenarists and producers to the lavish and the exotic — period dramas, royal fantasies, Ruritanian romances — where words mattered less than spectacle, and the actors had to either embrace it or upend it.