Sentence examples for like a spectacle from inspiring English sources

Who doesn't like a spectacle?

It may from the outside look like a spectacle in the making, but it isn't.

You can spot the line of a join under the chin, and one running from ear to ear and across the bridge of the nose, like a spectacle frame.

But the difference makes you realise how much Loach cultivates that very effect: he rejects the usual cinema rhetoric to create something that feels not like a spectacle, presented as if between red curtains, more like a story that someone's telling you in the pub.

People would watch you pass by, and you felt like a spectacle – like I imagined my mum must have felt when she was chosen to be the Queen of Peace in 1945 and was driven in a lorry down the main street in Cowdenbeath.

"[His work] is like a spectacle all on its own".

I don't do walkouts, partly out of professional ethics, and partly because I don't like making a spectacle of my displeasure.

When it played at a summer-camp dance and a girl I didn't like made a spectacle of dancing to it, doing some dramatic vamping with a scarf tied around her head, I felt personally wronged.

"Of course," Ms. Wells hastened to add, "he liked being a spectacle".

Then the interviews would turn to the kind of seedy, raucous lives glimpsed on certain TV shows, where the country's underclass likes to make a spectacle of itself as we watch and call it pop culture.

I walked back to my hotel, I pondered the mystery of a culture that could delight in both a spectacle like the cabalgata and an earthy trickster like the caganer; that could produce both a delicate béchamel and a market full of cheap Barbie knock-offs.