Sentence examples for was spectacle from inspiring English sources

What they provided, instead, was spectacle.

What lingered, in grainy video footage, was spectacle.

There was spectacle as well as sport, with feats of aquatic derring-do that made swimming look like vaudeville theatre.

What he offered was spectacle, sequins, parody (he sent up the calculated sentiment of Marlene Dietrich superbly) and his own unique brand of sexual equivocation.

During these early years, Spence observes, "much of life, for Zhang Dai, was spectacle, and the great truths for him remained aesthetic ones".

It was spectacle and scenery that drew in the crowds, as shown by many comments in the diary of the theatre-lover Samuel Pepys.

This is spectacle all right.

"A runway is spectacle.

The pleasure substitute here is spectacle.

What the film doesn't skimp on is spectacle.

"There's spectacle involved," he said of the fire.