Sentence examples for on the spectacles from inspiring English sources

Rhinestones on the spectacles.

Alongside her literary scholarship, she has published extensively on the spectacles of the Roman arena, starting with the article "Fatal charades: Roman executions staged as mythological enactments," Journal of Roman Studies 80 (1990), 44 73.

Yet precisely how Martial lived between ad 65 and 80, the year in which he published Liber Spectaculorum (On the Spectacles), a small volume of poems to celebrate the consecration of the Colosseum, is not known.

We'd fish out this cold, sharp object with two fingers: "Papa, what is this?" Papa would put on the spectacles that sat on his forehead, take it carefully, and inspect it.

Martial's first book, On the Spectacles (ad 80), contained 33 undistinguished epigrams celebrating the shows held in the Colosseum, an amphitheatre in the city begun by Vespasian and completed by Titus in 79; these poems are scarcely improved by their gross adulation of the latter emperor.

Wearers can switch it on by changing the filters on the spectacles so the only light falling on their retina comes from the magnified stream.

As Dan Wetzel writes on Yahoo.com, it poured a whole bucket of water on the spectacle.

"We didn't want to rely on the spectacle of the show alone," he wrote.

His deputy lingered on the spectacle of undercover spies as middle-class Sybarites.

Next door, a neighbor peering through his window rendered his verdict on the spectacle: thumbs up.

There is the spectacle, and then we must deliberate on the spectacle.