Sentence examples for presented the spectacle from inspiring English sources

For the critics at Time magazine, the film "presented the spectacle of a director going mad".

Cagney was so nimble that I remember my dad once saying that he presented "the spectacle of a man desperately trying to keep his feet on the floor".

It presents the spectacle of a great visual poet reduced to unstructured, though lyrical, painterly prose.

Every summer, Ilulissat Kangerlua, a fjord two miles south of Ilulissat, presents the spectacle of the world's largest concentration of icebergs outside of Antarctica.

Many of the gleams in his architectural eye survive only as images on paper, and yet the bevy of buildings he touched with his imagination presents the spectacle of a life well spent.

The film presents the spectacle of both the lovers and the despot, though it falters in its exploration of the consequences of their collision.

The cases have presented the rare spectacle of a president's own words undercutting the legal arguments of his administration.

I wrote then that she presented the bizarre spectacle of an intelligent woman who had spent her entire adult life making herself more stupid; this process has now reached its inevitable conclusion, and she has become to all intents and purposes moronic.

The 2003 race presented the random spectacle of Maya Angelou (another multiple nominee) defeating actor Tim Robbins reading "The Great Gatsby," a dying Reeve and Parkinson's research spokesman Michael J. Fox and debonair Hollywood insider Robert Evans.

But whatever they had imbibed at home was regularly undermined by what the wider society presented – including the spectacle, in a good many settings last August, of adults inciting younger people to join them in looting or violence.

It's a real New York movie, right from the opening, when we are presented with the spectacle of a caravan of buses full of young brokers, partying loud and hard to the accompaniment of an avalanche of rap, invading a dark and deserted Lower Manhattan, rolling through the sullen streets like Armani-clad Visigoths.