Sentence examples for sorry spectacle from inspiring English sources
A victor who made the whole sorry spectacle worth watching.
Johnson feared he would be a "sorry spectacle" before these gigs began; a stricken, pitiful casualty.
This final act in the sorry spectacle has long been predictable, even inevitable.
What, a viewer wondered, was this sorry spectacle supposed to prove?
At a time when the threat to the crown had never been greater, the monarchy itself presented a sorry spectacle.
Why, he asked, did he still involve himself in this "sorry spectacle"?
To the series of sorry spectacles that has been the Jerry Sandusky/Penn State child sexual abuse scandal, we add one of the sorriest yet.
Did you see them in "Doubt"?Ms Dowd's involvement is fitting, as this may be the sorriest spectacle of content-free public hyperventilation since Al Gore's earth tones.
Red Smith wrote, "Cassius makes himself as sorry a spectacle as those unwashed punks who picket and demonstrate against the war".
AS HE stumbled out of Malacanang Palace, beaten, confused and by most accounts badly hung-over, President Joseph Estrada of the Philippines cut as sorry a spectacle as he had in office.
The sports columnist Red Smith of The New York Herald Tribune wrote, "Squealing over the possibility that the military may call him up, Cassius makes himself as sorry a spectacle as those unwashed punks who picket and demonstrate against the war".
