Sentence examples for unprecedented spectacle from inspiring English sources

That summer, Egyptians witnessed an unprecedented spectacle: their aging leader making stump speeches and shaking hands around the country, having reluctantly allowed other parties to field candidates.

However, in this dustbowl year, the world was also treated to the unprecedented spectacle of New York City under water, as the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy burst into Lower Manhattan on the evening of 29 October, while much of the US north-east coast was devastated.

In our strenuous yet possibly misguided attempt to take the movies seriously, the natural and primary thrust has been to ask them to be "cinematic", to dwell on appearances, the visual, fantasy in action, unprecedented spectacle, and to do things that no other medium could attempt, let alone surpass.

Olympic organizers are promising an unprecedented spectacle.

But it was ordinary British people who turned London 2012 into an unprecedented spectacle with their passion and generosity of spirit".

THE unprecedented spectacle confronts us of more than one industrial company in three selling for less than its net current assets, with a large number quotd at less than their unencumbered cash.

An eager friend might have asked last year: "What did you think of Avatar, that extravagant, unprecedented cinematic spectacle?" Your blasé answer: "Meh".

The first one, last autumn, which cut some $7 billion in spending, offered an unprecedented public spectacle of Parliament members grilling squirming bureaucrats, turning the tables on the powerful pooh-bahs who had long called the shots.

An actor in the coming Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" was injured last week during a demonstration of one of the many flying and acrobatic effects in the $60 million show, whose creators have promised an unprecedented aerial spectacle while also going to lengths to ensure safety.

Audiences around the world witnessed the raw rehearsals of what would have been an unprecedented concert spectacle.

A seismic and unprecedented sporting spectacle anticipated like no other before it, the Rumble in the Jungle was held in an African country (Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo) by a black American promoter with an unprecedented payout to the black American fighters—$5 million each accompanied by a music festival featuring the pan-African world's most dynamic performers.