Sentence examples for past spectacles from inspiring English sources

And though McQueen found relative harmony with a new corporate partner, he too was frustrated by the all-consuming fashion machine — a point he ruthlessly mocked in one of his last shows when models in versions of Dior's New Look and Chanel's tweeds paraded around a trash heap of props from his own past spectacles.

A questionnaire was used to collect information on present and past spectacles use, the spectacles provider, and the purpose of using the spectacles.

"Once you move past the spectacle and past the hype, [VR] is the medium of human experience," Milk said.

The past use of spectacles was not associated with age, gender, or education (Table 2).

Eric Schaeffer directed a starry cast to die for that found the emotional transparency in the shadows of spectacle past.

We might at least look past the formal spectacle to scan the faces in the crowd, and reflect upon causes for mourning in North Korea other than the loss of Kim Jong-il.

But yesterday, it was not easy to see the diplomacy past the preconference spectacle, which spilled into virtually every nook and cranny of Manhattan and promised to continue through the week.

It's easy to see the barbarism of punishments in eras past; like the spectacle of execution or torture in a public square.

David Ryder, Yorkshire's operations director, has worked at every Headingley Test since 1976 and argues that while there is a danger of viewing the past through rose-tinted spectacles – there were probably only a couple of thousand in the ground for the start of the last day of the famous 1981 match, which was also a Tuesday – the situation is grim.

Opening Ceremony, which in the past has staged elaborate spectacles with its shows — including a play at the Metropolitan Opera, a parade of race cars disgorging models on a pier, and a beauty pageant featuring Whoopi Goldberg as a contestant — announced on Wednesday that it will hold its next fashion show at Disneyland, in March.

It was caught and held by the shifting kaleidoscope of color-besotted images and animations, the cocksure pace and rhythm of the editing, and the spectacle of past and present collapsing into a wilderness of digital all-at-once.