Sentence examples for odd spectacle from inspiring English sources

A YEAR AGO IN April, an odd spectacle unfolded in the earthquake zone.

There is something so transforming about this odd spectacle that it feels subversive.

It made for an odd spectacle: people from the supposed radical left, with instincts that were often disappointingly conservative.

It was an odd spectacle: American finance ministers do not often hang out in African slums, and rock stars rarely take part in roundtable discussions about development economics.

An odd spectacle confronts me: hundreds of school children standing in ranks swinging their arms and legs, clapping and turning, all in time to a teacher's commands.

Despite all that, some Olympic test events are going forward, including the truly odd spectacle of a beach volleyball tournament not far from 10 Downing Street.

Election years produce odd spectacles, like presidential candidates talking about their penises, or normal people talking about Labor Department jobs reports.

He has greeted old friends from his decades of living in the state, though it has sometimes made for odd spectacles.

Mr. Tarantino is an irrepressible showoff, recklessly flaunting his formal skills as a choreographer of high-concept violence, but he is also an unabashed cinephile, and the sincerity of his enthusiasm gives this messy, uneven spectacle an odd, feverish integrity.

"Mr. Tarantino is an irrepressible showoff, recklessly flaunting his formal skills as a choreographer of high-concept violence," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times, "but he is also an unabashed cinephile, and the sincerity of his enthusiasm gives this messy, uneven spectacle an odd, feverish integrity".

He's Mike Tyson, the former heavyweight boxing champion, and his one-man show, "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth," which opened Thursday for a run through Aug. 12, is among the odder spectacles Broadway has seen in a while.