Sentence examples for spectacle someone from inspiring English sources

In part, Pirandello's 1930 play is an attack on vainglorious directors and vulgar spectacle (someone should do it here) of the kind embodied for him by Max Reinhardt.

It is never a pretty spectacle when someone wails, "What about me?," though we've all done it.

Things were tough enough for wildland firefighters without the spectacle of someone charged as a Forest Service arsonist.

Not all humour consists in laughing at the spectacle of someone else's painful pratfall - but the vast majority of it does.

The spectacle of someone who has the power to hand out death sentences making stump speeches, seeking endorsements and raising funds has long seemed odd to outsiders.

The spectacle of someone completely in the grip of his own, inexhaustible indignation provides an unexpected intellectual satisfaction - an ideal type made flesh.

There's a pleasing irony in the spectacle of someone who wanted to publish so much confidential information trying to suppress a book based on interviews he gave freely to a ghostwriter.

We're left with a calculated vulgarity (she also makes less printable comments) and the spectacle of someone trying hard to fulfill her role as a reality-show star: she's supposed to be both outrageous and a good mom.

Goodness knows, it is not the "twist" of a sham marriage or the spectacle of someone forced to sleep temporarily on a floor that accounts for a sustained interest in a group of middling young white people.

It's the spectacle of someone with this background robbed of a chance to belong somewhere, and reduced to a state of perpetual self-salesmanship, that Cheever figures the reader will ultimately find humorous and terrifying.

In a city where leaks are as common as broken campaign promises, the rare spectacle of someone actually on trial for being a source proceeded with little drama and less revelation today.