Just as you're noticing how near-amateurish some incident looks (deliberately) with these reduced forces, you then see some aspect of pageantry or spectacle that effectively sketches big-scale history.
Canaletto, a genius who came to be especially beloved by British country house and Upper East Side apartment dwellers, was a bore once he was Canaletto, churning out nearly interchangeable panoramas for complacent collectors who wanted picturesque spectacles that effectively embalmed Venice.
Spectacles could be coated more effectively with scratch-resistant chemicals, simply by dunking them in the appropriate solution.
Instead, the fact that the mirror had been ground so precisely to the wrong shape led to the design of new optical components with exactly the same error but in the opposite sense, to be added to the telescope at the servicing mission, effectively acting as "spectacles" to correct the spherical aberration.
It is Cole whom de Botton quotes most effectively when discussing the effect of awesome spectacles of nature upon the human psyche.
The Broadway spectacle that Mendes and Marshall bring to Cabaret effectively contrasts with its sinister setting that enhances the Kit Kat Club's debauched goings-on as a powerful metaphor for the impending rise of Nazism.
Instead, the odds are that Iran, freed from sanctions, will indeed be absorbed into the Sino-Russian project to integrate Eurasia, which leads us to the spectacle of Washington's warriors, unable to act effectively, yet screaming like banshees.
But few could have predicted the manner in which Paul Cook's side would effectively end the match as a competitive spectacle between the 22nd minute and the 29th.
The audience awareness that did exist was mostly down to Momentum's splashy TV ad campaign, which effectively showcased the film's chief selling point: spectacle.
Our next president is a reality TV star, effectively turning American democracy into a bizarre catastrophilic spectacle, but let me implore you to take a deep breath and participate in America's other greatest pasttime: impulse consumption!
