Sentence examples for modern spectator from inspiring English sources

The modern spectator, whether in the ground or on the sofa, is losing the attention span to appreciate such superhuman efforts.

As the world's first and oldest modern spectator sport, cricket is marked by an earlier era whose patterns of leisure and work have long vanished.

London's Paralympic Games have been notable in many ways: brilliant performances, full-house stadiums – testimony to the enduring armchair passions of a nation that effectively invented the modern spectator sport – and now even a bespoke high-profile cheating row.

The film is lost, but his published notes stated: "I paint about communication", explaining that in making painting derived from everyday contemporary objects, he sought to establish common ground between the modern spectator and high art.

If you want people to take your extreme look seriously, just make sure you can still go about your everyday business; watching someone with 6in luminescent yellow talons trying to use a touch-screen ticket machine has become the great modern spectator sport.

Beyond this, 2013 might even be cast as something of a first last stand for Test cricket, the grand Victorian antecedent of all modern spectator sports and still a garishly irresistible metaphor for post-colonial relations across the defunct imperial map.

But twice the camera drew back to reveal modern spectators enjoying the show.Though self conscious, it barely jarred in a genre as artificial as this.

He believes many modern-day spectators want more entertainment and more excitement.

In an event that savors its history and dubs itself the Open Championship, Turnberry is the newest and least utilized venue, but that was partly because of its once-suspect home stretch and partly because its isolated location made it ill-equipped for modern traffic and spectator flows.

The arena's billion-dollar renovation was on full display: a warren of refurbished suites, a pair of sky bridges with spectator seating, a modern video board, among other improvements.

"We will see many more works which involve the spectator," said Tate Modern director Chris Dircon.