Sentence examples for mocking spectacle from inspiring English sources

The mode then becomes one of a carnivalesque parade, a mocking spectacle — critics have even compared the sounds of the bassoons and bass drum that accompany the beginning of the marcia turca to flatulence.

At particularly lawless traffic intersections where people were regularly run down by trucks and cars, Antanas Mockus deployed groups of mimes who entered traffic and made bad drivers into a mocking spectacle.

But when "Springtime for Hitler" debuts in the second act of "The Producers" at the St. James Theater, we are its audience, caught up in the spectacle of Broadway mocking the spectacle of Broadway.

What began by mocking the spectacle of art evolves into a celebration of the private, almost dumb pleasure of visual experience.

If the stunt was intended to mock the spectacle of art being reduced to a price tag, the joke might be on Banksy.

The shredded "Girl with Balloon" might become even more valuable than it was before; if Banksy's stunt was intended to mock the spectacle of art being reduced to a price tag, the joke might be on him.

You can almost hear Zooey Glass at his shaving mirror, mocking the whole sordid spectacle.

Executives came and went; productions were cancelled or curtailed on short notice; extensive renovations sucked up millions of pounds of public money; Labour politicians self-servingly denounced the house on behalf of the working class; and the London tabloids mocked the entire spectacle ("The Greedy Beggar's Opera," the Sun dubbed it).

Now paparazzi and cyberazzi would be posting frequent updates, turning trouble into spectacle, and bloggers would be mocking "fat Jim" and "krazy Kurt" as they struggled, vying to see who could be more cruelly iconoclastic.

Do not think he was honest with "I have a good life," maybe the guy did not want people to feel sorry for him, I think he had a crappy life.' 'That you make a spectacle of it and almost mocking yourself before you kill yourself simply indicates that the person was feeble-minded and weak as an individual.

It was a tabloid spectacle: an executive frustrated that a fan was mocking his terrible team.