Sentence examples for spectacle at once from inspiring English sources

It's a spectacle at once years ahead of its time and with no direct aesthetic equal.

6 p.m. 2) BRINKMANSHIP Push into the crowds on the riverfront walkway in Canada and see the whole geological spectacle at once.

What we have here, in other words, is the spectacle, at once touching and comical, of good liberals falling over themselves to prove their moral credentials.

With the camera moving almost constantly through a visual field dense with swaying extras, hanging clouds of smoke and fog, and looming foreground objects that together seem to keep the characters behind a scrim of unknowability, Sternberg here creates a spectacle at once breathtakingly beautiful and chokingly oppressive.

Attendees of the upcoming Lincoln Center performances on February 12 , 19 and 27 will thus experience a spectacle at once as moving and cinematic as it will be static and sculptural.

He was aided by a Surrey lady, the late Gertrude Jekyll, who wore three pairs of spectacles at once, and her garden boots, which she wore for 30 years, were so famous that Orpen painted them alone as her picture.

Seen like this, The Society of the Spectacle is at once the bastard progeny of the French Enlightenment – out of Diderot, by means of the Napoleonic Code – and a salutary reminder of how the pursuit of some millenarian ideological purity only ever results – if successful – in the rumbling of tumbrels; or, if a failure, in its wholesale co-option by its stated enemies.

ON the subway ride to Christian Louboutin, so far up the Upper East Side as to be in what I call "Canada," I was getting my mind blown by Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle": "The world at once present and absent that the spectacle holds up to view is the world of the commodity dominating all living experience.

He proceeded to preside urbanely over a spectacle that was at once diverting and disturbing.

As everyday objects crash, scrape, slide, or fly into one another with devastating, impossible, and persuasive effect, viewers find themselves witnessing a spectacle that seems at once prehistoric and postapocalyptic.

As a spectacle for visitors, the Lords is at once more elegant and more relaxed than the Commons.