Sentence examples for ordinary spectacle from inspiring English sources

To see four grand pianos, a chorus and dancers before the two huge saints on Oliver Smith's backdrop was to see no ordinary spectacle.

It is freezing cold all summer long, naked bike races are a minor traffic inconvenience instead of an out of the ordinary spectacle, and sex tapes are filmed on our trains.

First is a tiny lenslet located at the centre of the lens which can focus as close as 1cm to the eye, close enough for the display to be installed on ordinary spectacles.

The connected gear, which look similar to ordinary spectacles, can recognize faces and cross reference them with profiles on China's national ID databases to identify potential suspects.

Google's Glass project aims to produce systems built into ordinary-looking spectacles that would overlay information about a location, or from the user's internet feeds, into their visual field.

It was ordinary life as spectacle – the world as Shakespeare's stage – which in that moment, seemed to make art redundant, and reality much more effortlessly intriguing than the strained simulacrum of life I had just seen on stage.

If Daddy could turn something rather ordinary into a spectacle, he tended to do it.

It also included some of the most beautiful and satisfying drawings by a contemporary artist that I can recall sil houettes of ordinary scissors and spectacles superbly com posed against bright confetti‐ colored grounds.

The boat reversed course and headed downstream, back toward the oddly comforting spectacle of ordinary waterfront blight.

You must have missed the heart-warming spectacle of ordinary folk sacrificing their benefits, services and jobs so that bankers might retain their vital bonuses.

Nor did tears work for our very own Ken Livingstone when, at his mayoral manifesto launch, he wept at the spectacle of "ordinary Londoners" saying how much they wanted him to be mayor – in words written by his staff.