Sentence examples for serious spectacles from inspiring English sources

With his serious spectacles and his comic golden perm, Benny is the most winning character on display, all the acquired savagery in him half tamed — but only half — by the innate, girl-pulling ease of his demeanor.

Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe/PA 11.06pm BST... then the speeches Lord Coe, wearing serious spectacles ((c) @owen_g) starts his speech saying that he is honoured to welcome home the Paralympic games, a movement that shows what sport is about - the barriers you can break, that refuses to take no for an answer.

A similar situation faced theaters, which were forbidden by the Germans to produce "serious" spectacles.

The gangly Merchant, with his 6-foot-7 frame and serious spectacles, is highly adept at this — he is not quite made for this world.

For the first time this year, Bestival feels less like an end-of-season hedonist's fancy dress box and more like a serious spectacle ready to take on the festival granddaddies.

She was moving into serious spectacle".

Miriam Coleman from Rolling Stone described the show as a "serious spectacle".

Looking studious and serious in spectacles, cream sweater and denim skirt, Sasha, 14, who had put more distance than her sister between herself and the leader of the free world, melted into laughter at that.

Details: £7 per adult, £3.50 for children (jerwoodgallery.org) 2. A bluebell spectacle Hannah Needham suggests the ancient beech woodland of Micheldever is 'the place to go for a serious bluebell spectacle'.

In his 1982 book, "Live and Off-Color: News Biz," he complained that executives' lust for ratings led them to prefer spectacle over serious news.

Houellebecq couldn't afford to feature quite as many gadgets as he might have liked; instead, he gets by with showing us a serious-looking man in spectacles, pulling wires and punching a computer keyboard, in an attempt to show us that Bauchau really is being cloned.