Sentence examples for vivid spectacle from inspiring English sources

With a vivid spectacle in the foreground framed by a stunning backdrop, it was like watching a staging of a Sophocles play in a beautiful Greek theater.

This was contact with history itself, avoided by the marrowest margins, the mere thickness of the wall separating the scholars from the vivid spectacle of the Bill of Rights being acted out by their own mothers & fathers.

Inevitably, it was China's Cultural Revolution that provided the most vivid spectacle, the rush of young blood embodied in the massive red banners, copies of Mao's Little Red Book held up in salute, and Jo Fong's movement-direction alternating apparent spontaneity with tight control.

Every few years this desperate search climaxes in a vivid spectacle, as tens of thousands of budgies flock around a shrinking water hole. .

It is one of the most vivid athletic spectacles in the world, and its roots can be traced back to competitions of martial prowess that took place among Genghis Khan's warriors.

It's vivid in the spectacle of a woman spitting on a son whom she clearly adores.

Its gritty realism has an odd effect: it makes the book seem less real, a stiff yet vivid and extravagant spectacle.

Nothing registers the fragility and contingency of the human presence in the universe quite as starkly as the sight of a small vessel adrift on an endless ocean, and few representations of heroism are as vivid as the spectacle of an individual fighting to master the caprices of wind and water.

Still, this is real spectacle, with vivid projections, an array of alphabet blocks to form the famous tower, an all-female human pyramid, and much else.

The procession was led by two knights herald, in armour almost blindingly bright in the sunshine, towering figures mounted on a black and a white horse, vivid representation of the spectacle their ancestors would have witnessed on the day of battle, at least until the shining army became a bloody rout.

The spectacle of vivid natural surfaces (volcanoes, forests, oceans, tilled fields, glaciers) cascading under us gives way to the scars of mankind's plundering, heedless ways.