But, inevitably, comparisons of the two spectacles kept entering my thoughts — especially since Formula One has for many years hyped itself as the world's third most popular sporting spectacle, behind the Olympics and World Cup soccer.
These three spectacles are just some of the few interesting things within the park.
When she delves in her sensible, capacious bag at one point, out tumble two pairs of spectacles (of course) and a pair of flat shoes.
One of the spectacles of the Grande Semaine de Paris, which began June 15, was three nocturnal military tattoos on the east side of the Place Vendome.
"Piranha 3D," directed by Alexandre Aja and loosely remade from the 1978 "Piranha" — one of many spectacles of watery predation that followed in the bloody, lucrative wake of "Jaws" — begins with a half-witty moment of pop-cultural homage that may temporarily raise your hopes.
Frazier won their first meeting in 1971, a bout between two unbeatens that is considered one of the greatest spectacles of the sports century.
As five straight CGI spectacles (four of them in 3D) claimed the prize, all taking best visual effects into the bargain, purists wondered where the line between the awards was to be drawn.
Mark E. Kelly of the Navy, take off for the International Space Station, it will be one of the last spectacles of its kind for a while.
One of the great spectacles of the drama that was the end of Communism was Gorbachev coming to pay his respects to Sakharov, as Andrei Dmitriyevich lay in state at the Palace of Youth, on Komsomolsky Prospekt.
The figure has the moustache and spectacles of one of Kitaj's intellectual heroes, Walter Benjamin, a Jewish essayist, but this is undoubtedly Kitaj.
