Sentence examples for spectacle a from inspiring English sources
To him it is a degrading spectacle, a charade.
It was a show, a spectacle, a gringada, but for whose benefit?
Compared with this spectacle, a video on the website of Nature this week seems decidedly dull.
Madonna, he writes, "turned my private Catholic angst into a spectacle, a one-woman Vatican 3".
James Cameron's "Avatar" was a luscious purple-green spectacle — a fantasy of the natural world.
The human body is a wonder, a spectacle, a thing of awesome complexity and subtlety.
Like Beckett, Hofmann translates existential crisis into absurdist spectacle, a performance that displaces truth or verifiability.
"Charly Baumann belonged to a dying breed," said Ernest Albrecht, editor of Spectacle, a circus magazine.
It was a spectacle - a laugh here and a gasp there, particularly when a cyclist almost fell off the high wire.
This is where the continuing shift from plot and character to spectacle -- a reordering of Aristotle's classic dramatic attributes -- has lead.
The ensuing spectacle -- a carefully scripted encounter between the armed forces and society -- expresses the distilled essence of present-day American patriotism.
