Sentence examples for peculiar spectacle from inspiring English sources
In their seats in the arched rows, his hushed colleagues stared through tight eyes at the peculiar spectacle.
It was a peculiar spectacle, to put it mildly: An atheist attacking a traditionalist believer for not reading Genesis literally.
Spectators who travel to the event or watch the hundreds of clips that circulate online are treated to a peculiar spectacle.
Lunch brings the peculiar spectacle of around 100 extras in various combinations of pastel polyester and facial hair patiently queueing for the buffet.
We must have presented a peculiar spectacle when we arrived in Hadjout: a mother hiding her carefully folded newspaper clippings in her bosom, a teen-ager with his eyes on his bare feet, and some raggedy baggage.
But since those ideas currently lack constituencies in the capital, we're left with the peculiar spectacle of a political class responding to a period of destructive long-term unemployment with an agenda that threatens to help extend that crisis toward 2020 and beyond.
Indeed, reruns of Morecambe & Wise achieve the peculiar cryogenic spectacle of the duo still dominating the festive schedules, even though they last performed together 27 years ago.
But it left Americans to contemplate a peculiar and unpresidential spectacle: The leader of the free world taking the country to war while pretending that he wasn't, and then effectively washing his hands of the ultimate outcome — which, 135 days and counting later, is still very much in doubt.
And the search for a replacement is a peculiar and naturally contentious spectacle, part public but mostly private, involving a private consulting firm.
But what gave the essay its peculiar frisson was the unusual spectacle of an avant gardist fighting a rearguard action, and a rather desperate one at that (you can sense the slight panic in that surprisingly cheap put-down, "Oprah literature").
To really appreciate these spectacles, a phenomenon peculiar to our time, you have to be there.
