Sentence examples for staged spectacle from inspiring English sources

In the late 1920's he staged spectacle prologues for Sid Grauman at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, then became a manager of performers.

Nothing could be further from the tasteful melodramatics and carefully staged spectacle of Fred Zinnemann's "Man for All Seasons" (1966), an Oscar-winning exemplar of historical filmmaking.

The closing interludes are given over to a lavishly staged spectacle which by some stroke of magic the leading male character is supposed to put on in an ordinary sized theatre.

How, though, will Curtis and 3D avoid becoming an example of the very thing they are critiquing – another staged spectacle in which style triumphs over content and everyone goes home quite contented?

But, for the rest of us, there are reasons to abstain, either out of principle — to respect the dead, to restore a bit of their privacy, to refuse to be an audience in a staged spectacle — or because it's just too awful.

Puig adds that the "expensive-looking, massively staged spectacle, with elaborate costumes and ornate production design, feels bloated, by-the-book and lackluster, and is dotted with risible dialogue.

There are sporadic "crackdowns", but most are staged spectacles.

Noémie Lafrance, who has staged spectacles inside a clock tower, at the dry McCarren Park Pool, and atop Frank Gehry's concert hall at Bard, presents a new work next to a salt pile underneath the Manhattan Bridge.

Major public gatherings are cramped, near-desperate attempts to watch staged spectacles of minor importance: the dropping of the New Year's ball in Times Square or the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.

Dances and Drums of Africa, Mr. Moore's company, emphasized both African and Caribbean works, and Mr. Moore was especially praised for preserving the choreography of Mr. Dafora, a dancer from Sierra Leone who, after coming to America in 1929, staged spectacles based on African folklore.

And it has given us a flood of well-schooled pictures, ingenious sculptures, fastidious photographs and carefully staged spectacles, each based on the same basic elements: a single idea, embedded in the work and expounded in an artist's statement, and a look or style geared to be as catchy as the hook in a rock song.