Sentence examples for very spectacle from inspiring English sources

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And it is the very spectacle of inequality that is toxic.

Ms. Sedgwick is like yards of silk unfurled, flowing and snapping in a glorious midday sun -- the very spectacle makes you smile.

In fact, the very spectacle of crowds surging into the streets and overwhelming decades of accumulated power in the hands of a highly centralized, American-backed government seemed an antidote to the despair of past years — carnage in Iraq, divisions among Palestinians and Israeli intransigence and the yawning divide between ruler and ruled on almost every question of foreign policy.

Still, the very spectacle of women jostling with men for a public microphone to make speeches from the floor at the loya jirga was a stark contrast to the disappearance of women from public life for five years under the Taliban.

Thus it was that however reactionary a figure Thatcher was in her thoughts, pronouncements and actions, the very spectacle, day after day, year after year of a woman controlling and indeed dominating a pack of otherwise traditional alpha males can have been nothing but inspiring to any women unimpeded by an ideology that prevented them recognising this.

CGI has encouraged cinema to hit levels of bombast that even Cecil B. De Mille, dozing in his boudoir, would have considered a touch de trop, and if we worshipped Orlando Bloom's Legolas, in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, that is because he seemed elfishly underwhelmed by the very spectacle that was wowing the rest of us.

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At the show's beginning the Yorkshire-born Mr. Kitson, whose very spectacles seem to glint with a fiery fervor, warns us that though this is a tale of a man and a woman, it is "no more about love than the Bible is about woodworking".

I watched this in the cinema, which was good because it's very beautifully filmed – a real spectacle.

As anyone who has watched Top Gun can attest, men's beach volleyball is a very homoerotic spectacle.

But Indonesia's economy is hurting and the very public spectacle of the executions in April hasn't helped.

But given Britain's record on big infrastructure projects few would bet on next year's budget being the final word on what is becoming a very expensive spectacle.

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