Sentence examples for shocking spectacle from inspiring English sources

But what we saw was a shocking spectacle.

It's a shocking spectacle that could be stopped with one merciful injection.

The Huskies (36-1) made a shocking spectacle out of the anticipated rubber match, capping a near-perfect season with a flawless performance.

Civilians watched in horror as newsreel footage of the camp at Belsen appeared on the screen at their local cinema, turning an evening at the pictures into a shocking spectacle that would give them nightmares for weeks.

"The field of Battle exhibits this morning a most shocking spectacle too dreadful to describe … Those officers who were in the Peninsula describe the battles there as mere combats in comparison with that of yesterday".

There are historical figures in this movie: Meryl Streep contributes a commanding if faintly Maggie-ish cameo as Pankhurst and Natalie Press plays Emily Wilding Davison, the suffragette who ran in front of George V's horse at the 1913 Derby, and created the pictures and headlines that astonished the nation: an unthinkably shocking spectacle of fatal self-harm, mingled with conceptual lèse-majesté.

Athenian drama returns obsessively — as we do, every November 22nd — to the shocking and yet seemingly inevitable spectacle of the fallen king, of power and beauty and privilege violently laid low.

With a new season of Game of Thrones currently airing, shocking plot twists and gruesome spectacles are at their annual peak, and so is social media fervor about spoilers.

Tell me citizens, WHERE, under the sun, you can witness a spectacle more fiendish and shocking.

Violence, never gloated over as a spectacle, is brief, inevitable and shocking.

At the Grammys in February she gave the most shocking performance, part exorcism and part Broadway spectacle.