Sentence examples similar to set spectacle from inspiring English sources

So, for people like myself who grew up on the example they set, the spectacle of Smiley and West engaging in crude Obama-bashing is more embarrassing than inspiring.

The celebrations, of both players and the crowd, were rather muted, with the spectators no doubt having hoped for a three-set spectacle between the two most powerful players in the women's game.

His eyes deeply set behind spectacles and his teeth preternaturally white — there's a kind of cool crocodile vibe to Mr. Manilow — he listened intently as his cast worked its way through "How Can I Serve You, Madame?," a waltz that includes references to Hamlet, falsetto singing and complex harmonies.

It's a fantastically deranged spectacle, set to one of Underworld's most rubbery tracks.

In many ways, "Girls Incarcerated" is the gendered photonegative of the troubled-teen spectacle, set in a world of restorative justice and therapeutic courses.

Bier is an interesting person to take charge of this big emotional spectacle, set in depression-era America in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina.

If Rudin does get to make his movie, it will be a major disappointment if it isn't a turbulent and wildly expensive production, with the tantrums and politicking off set matching the spectacle and passion on screen.

(212-875-5050) www.lincolncenTHEATER THEATER "ZULU TIME" -- The centerpiece of the festival is a music-theater spectacle set in the transient world of airports where people from all over the world cross paths, conceived by Robert Lepage with music by Peter Gabriel.

"Francophenia," which was shot during one of Mr. Franco's stints on "General Hospital," turns his behind-the-scenes footage into "an experimental psychological thriller set amid the spectacle of a celebrity's escalating paranoia," according to the festival's description of the film.

In a burst of ambition, it mounted a historical spectacle set in late-nineteenth-century Paris, "The Life of Emile Zola," starring Paul Muni. "Zola" is meant to be a stirring man-of-conscience movie: after early struggles, followed by huge success, the writer, in self-satisfied middle age, gets drawn, with increasing fury, into the Dreyfus affair.

There is no spectacle, set changes, gorgeous costumes, or genuinely funny moments.