Sentence examples for melancholy spectacle from inspiring English sources

The justifications from the critics whom galleries always seem able to find to dignify the shallow add to the melancholy spectacle.

The first seemed to greet us in a momentary salute; the second was a melancholy spectacle - vast, dead, stranded on the beach.

But there is something else in the Tory leadership vote that makes it a great spectator sport: the melancholy spectacle of defeated candidates solemnly declaring whom they will now support.

In mid-November 1995, Starr wrote: "San Diego was treated to a most melancholy spectacle: the auctioning off of all machinery in the harbor side Convair factory.

Katalin and 10-year-old Orbán (Norbert Tankó) make their desolate journey on a horse-drawn wagon, and their lonely departure makes a melancholy, almost Hardyesque spectacle, photographed in long-shot in rolling hills and fields that have clearly not changed in centuries, in which mobile phones are the only clue to the period.

Given his varied skill set (clowning, acrobatics, illusion, etc)., he and his troupe, Compagnie de Hanneton, do so in a fantasy world of shape-shifting spectacle, slapstick humor and melancholy whimsy.

We go from spectacle to bafflement, moments of melancholy to visceral excitement.

What an idiot I am, what a preposterous biped wearing spectacles and an air of melancholy, a walking lamentation, a grief clad in a union-suit". Two years later, living in Winchelsea, Aiken reported to Cowley that he still didn't feel settled in England, but that he was more settled and as a consequence had "been able to resume the deadly agonies of verse".

The spectacle is both wildly exhilarating and unforgettably melancholy.

But there was nothing honest or genuine in the gruesome spectacle of Floyd getting steadily more hammered, more melancholy and more abusive at a lunch with his daughter Poppy, from whom he had been estranged for 10 years.

The sight of Edinburgh overtaken by an angry public spectacle winds up stirring his memories in a profound, melancholy way.