Sentence examples for spectacle what from inspiring English sources

Some of them had come for a spectacle; what they got instead was lots of music, and scarcely any controversy.

Instead of the usual industrial spectacle what we get is a musical about people and life's missed opportunities.

The new music of Take the Crown doesn't hold a candle to the old stuff and "Candy" is a turkey but he made up in spectacle what he might have lost in song.

Instead of wrapping up with a full-company spectacle — what everyone was waiting for — the show concluded with "Juta," a new dance based on folk movement, in which the relationships between the sexes demonstrated a subtle shift.

We are now moving from Stage 1 of a national spectacle (what do the events in Cambridge, Mass., tell us about America?) to Stage 2 (what do the commentaries on the events tell us about America?).

Perhaps, then, when the children have been put to bed and we're weary of blockbuster spectacle, what we really want to cosy up with is a well-crafted drama – one that everyone who's seen it tells us is worth a watch.

The Indians lined the river to watch the spectacle -- what could have been a mass suicide.

In all this strategizing is the sad spectacle of what might have been.

"For Plath," he writes, "an audience had to witness the spectacle of what it meant to be Sylvia Plath".

Scale and spectacle are what confidently storm through in the script.

It is an undeniably positive spectacle, although what it will lead onto in the long term is unclear.