Sentence examples for pleasing spectacle from inspiring English sources

The four acting nominations for "Carnage" and two actress nominations for "Mary Stuart" were a strong indication that the Tony nominators were impressed with tandem performances that provided a pleasing spectacle to audiences.

"Wicked," a big-budget, family pleasing spectacle that tells the story of Oz from the witches' perspective, led the field with 10 Tony Award nominations yesterday, including best musical and acting nominations for its two leading witches, Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth.

Jones, who has held world titles in every division between middleweight and heavyweight, would certainly offer a more crowd-pleasing spectacle than Hopkins.

For much of his professional life, Mr. Noyce has done just that, moving from one crowd-pleasing spectacle to another, though under a different type of big top: the Hollywood studio system.

College basketball has long been defined by its postseason tournament, the crowd-pleasing spectacle known as March Madness.

Within their razzle-dazzle lay the makings of a crowd-pleasing spectacle, one that even attracted tourists who had no intention of spending a night there.

What other museum director would orchestrate the crowd-pleasing spectacle of moving a 340-ton boulder through the streets of Los Angeles at night before installing it on the museum grounds as "Levitated Mass," a work by Michael Heizer?

So let's leave the Christmas lights for the time being, and enjoy the metal fire-breathing spider for what it is: a ludicrous, crowd-pleasing spectacle, not an exercise in studied ecological restraint.

This crowd-pleasing spectacle is like a series of showstopper sequences from a musical without much attention paid to the story that is supposed to hold it all together.

Like "The Birth of a Nation" (1915), "The Jazz Singer" (1927) and Milton Berle's "Texaco Star Theater" (1948) -- the phenomena that respectively sped the rise of the feature film, the talking picture and network television -- War in the Gulf" (as CNN decorously titled it) introduced a novel kind of audience-pleasing spectacle that just may be the most popular new cultural form in America.

It's an eye-pleasing spectacle that doesn't make any sense.