Instead we are treated to the spectacle of artists, fully engaged, transforming and illuminating material they obviously love.
With their dense, text-heavy shows, Mason and Nelson are enamored of spectacle, and they fully exploit the excitement and sadness one should feel watching something as evanescent as theatre.
For some reason, football, being so fully a spectacle of contemporary life, gets the complaints that the spectacle of contemporary life demands.
Using their imaginations and some muslin, they could go from nothing to mock-up to fully rendered spectacle.
Visual impairment caused by refractive errors could be fully corrected using spectacle lens and the cost of spectacles is relatively low compared to eye surgery.
To abstain from indulging fully in the spectacle of such a public act of acquisition?
Hadid has said it "seeks to fully exploit the spectacle and drama of ascending the dive boards and diving".
There are no rose-tinted spectacles here – our members are fully aware of the pros and cons of EU membership and, on balance, have decided that the UK's interests are best served by remaining," Scuoler said.
To fully test out the Spectacles experience, I took over the Product Hunt Snapchat for a day.
If there is an upset, some fear it will be the spectacle of the BNP – fighting its first fully staffed campaign in Scotland – coming third.
