Sentence examples for spectacle up from inspiring English sources

Kenny — I don't know anyone who calls him Mr. Wong — knows that we create something of a spectacle up there.

Tristan's novel is unsentimental about the lives of the immigrant Jews, "the shapeless dresses and mild charms of their homely, aspiring daughters and the pinched mouths of their bitter wives, about the way their timid sons push their spectacles up the bridges of their sweaty noses and doggedly pursue elusive New World manhood".

Many of the close-ups lacked narrative clarity, while a vast spectacle made up of too many component parts was short of epic heft.

How will the spectacle stand up to 51 matches, 36 of those taken up simply with getting rid of eight teams?

It was a spectacle wrapped up in a scandal.

But this time of year, the spectacle ratchets up several notches.

Next door, a neighbor peering through his window rendered his verdict on the spectacle: thumbs up.

The sight of Edinburgh overtaken by an angry public spectacle winds up stirring his memories in a profound, melancholy way.

The cheery spectacle rolls up the Japanese archipelago from Okinawa in the tropical south to Hokkaido in the north like a floral Mexican wave.

O'Brien's, Leno's, and Letterman's ceaseless digs at NBC and their ugly attacks on one another stopped being funny early on, but, not surprisingly, the spectacle pumped up O'Brien's ratings by fifty per cent.

The spectacle dredges up all sorts of horrible memories: The grand opening of the ampitheater, she laments, "had turned into the Grand Opening / of my... Pandora's box" of personal trauma.