| Both managers lavished praise on their players for serving up a worthwhile spectacle. |
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| But soon, the townsfolk began to gather outside of their homes to view the great spectacle that had suddenly appeared in the sky. |
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| Gardeners, cooks and veggies mix in a celebration of education, spectacle, fun and food samples. |
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| Kerala is blessed with rivers, lakes and lagoons and these offer a rare spectacle to tourists. |
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| Even special train services were laid on so people could witness the spectacle. |
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| He said a mouthful, I thought, about the Frimley Green spectacle in general. |
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| In this theater almsgiving is rewarded by trumpet fanfare, prayer is a public parade, and the discomfort of fasting is a spectacle. |
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| This horse and pony section has developed enormously over the past number of years and is a very colourful spectacle. |
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| The event being mounted in Boston is a media spectacle devoid of any real debate or struggle. |
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| Families strolled through the ancient streets enjoying the spectacle, buying cheap toys for the children, and snacking on street food. |
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| Most interventions by an umpire detract from the spectacle and hence are unwelcome to players and spectators. |
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| What's more, it's ballet chosen for the rigor and intensity of the choreography, not the flamboyance of the spectacle. |
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| The games provide a riveting soccer spectacle at no cost to the spectators. |
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| The death of a real person is not a spectacle but a rite de passage, an event, perhaps THE event. |
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| Choreography is brought into play only when dance's primary function becomes spectacle rather than participatory activity. |
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| By choosing to exhibit the heroin along side this footage Furmage collapses the spectacle of art with the spectacle of crime. |
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| As such he might be expected to trot out the line about how every game will be crucial, and what a marvellous cricketing spectacle it will be. |
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| Jewellery was tailored directly into the clothes for the show, creating an impressive spectacle. |
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| While medieval diners ate, at formal meals, they observed the spectacle that was performed between courses. |
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| This raw spectacle overflows with fizzing stories which unveil the chaotic comedy and tragedy behind a flawed wedding reception. |
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| There was quite a spectacle when some of the elderly people took to the stage and performed a riveting dance to a number of golden oldies. |
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| The spectacle of war became increasingly popular but its tone changed to reflect the manliness of the soldier and his deadly seriousness. |
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| You certainly couldn't have wished for a better spectacle than either the men's 3,000m steeplechase and 400m final. |
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| The men will provide a spectacle as they transport their manuhiri back to the central city. |
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| The constellation of these artists and their painted and sculpted expressions is impressive in its rhetoric and spectacle. |
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| The Yoruba use the same term, dun, for a palatable meal and a memorable spectacle, both arousing a desire for more. |
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| If that isn't enough, lovely performer Shanna will also be on hand to perform that most exotic spectacle, belly-dancing. |
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| A woman, seen from above, seated in the balcony of a theatre, in her turn looks down on the spectacle below. |
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| The better spectacle may prove to be half the division scrapping to avoid relegation rather than the nip and tuck which will signify the top. |
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| She smiles at the spectacle of parents, kids and four-legged friends stationed around the playground. |
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| We know, after all, that his batting, when the karma is right and the yin and the yang aligned, is unmatched for spectacle and effect. |
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| However, the Trouts have skillfully created a spectacle as beautiful as it is thought provoking. |
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| The addition of a camber to both the top and bottom bends should also improve both safety and the racing spectacle. |
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| Travelling spectacle represents the oldest tradition with showmen, funambulists, conjuring tricks and acrobatics. |
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| Mother Clap's Molly House is a camp spectacle reminiscent of music hall and it has some shockingly funny one liners. |
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| The media spectacle becomes a steady regurgitation of what's being fed from on high. |
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| In this spectacle thirty beaked ships, triremes or biremes, and a large number of smaller vessels met in conflict. |
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| Her transformation from spectator to spectacle is signified repetitively by the gesture of removing her glasses. |
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| Moreover, each spectacle can be enjoyed by local residents as much as by tourists. |
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| The Ancient Greeks would probably have scratched their heads in bemusement at the Olympic spectacle of beach volleyball. |
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| This degrading spectacle was a mixture of incompetence, impotence and empty theatrics. |
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| Any spectacle surrounding the Tyson bandwagon tends to display only the awesome power of money. |
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| It's a totally different spectacle from the one in which you have four evenly balanced players playing the team game. |
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| In the antiseptic environment of an obstetric theatre, I witnessed this spectacle with the detachment of a duty-conscious executioner. |
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| With their gloss and glitter and the glamour surrounding them, they provide nothing but a pretty spectacle for the viewer. |
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| Here the spectacle continues to fascinate, but indifference is the attitude du jour. |
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| The genre of the sports spectacle is particularly effective in producing such narratives. |
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| Many media articles that I collected during my fieldwork used the same enticement of spectacle. |
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| Let's hope it eventuates as the game is losing a lot of its interest as a spectacle if you ask me. |
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| All this spectacle was reflected in a slanted mirror hanging above the performers, quadrupling the double act, quadrupling the fun. |
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| The speed and spectacle of the moving image left the painted canvas far behind. |
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| On the scaffold he gave a courteous bow to those who had come to morbidly observe the spectacle of his death. |
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| Their parts evolve in a kinetic parallax of curves and angles that create a shifting perceptual spectacle. |
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| Suddenly, it transforms into simply the most fabulously entertaining spectacle imaginable. |
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| But when one actively inflicts pain, on oneself or on others, there is excitement and jubilation in the spectacle of the pain. |
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| And given the opportunity for sublime spectacle, shipwreck was a main-stay of visual culture. |
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| Anyone lucky enough to have witnessed last year's live spectacle in Scotland will be champing at the bit to get another taster. |
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| The subdued hues of the soft corals and sponges and the shimmering fish flirting along the reef edge made a stunning spectacle. |
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| A repeat of this enthralling spectacle would send everyone home happy, if a little drained. |
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| The three-plus seconds it takes for a straight steal of home to unfold is by far the most adrenaline-filled spectacle on a baseball diamond. |
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| The Greeks proved in the European Championships that winning games, and tournaments, needn't be a pretty spectacle now. |
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| The cast of eight changed roles and costumes constantly and the stage sets added to the visual spectacle. |
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| Perhaps there is an opposite explanation for the unslakeable appetite for the spectacle of sport. |
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| In this instance, you have the unsavory spectacle of blatant cynicism racing neck and neck with latent xenophobia. |
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| Thank you for your article on the insulting spectacle that was called a press conference. |
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| And for the first hour or so, it was all quite beguiling and an impressive spectacle to behold. |
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| Visible in news reports and conjured in fans ' feverish minds, the hikikomori is now spectacle, exactly what he can't imagine. |
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| The judge must have laughed, and the vakils no doubt enjoyed the spectacle. |
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| But her feet seemed rooted to the ground and the spectacle of that great, angry crowd tearing towards her paralysed her with terror. |
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| Another fan, this one a Patriots rooter, clearly had had more than his share of beer and was making a spectacle of himself in the stands. |
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| Confusing cinematic spectacle with the horrors and necessities of armed conflict signals an end to our ability to discern truth. |
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| This disgusting spectacle provides a revealing insight into the debased nature of what passes for political discussion in Britain today. |
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| Even in the Journal, the spectacle of upper middle class, middle aged men whining about their life situation is absurd if amusing. |
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| This movie is so deftly directed and wonderfully acted that it can be enjoyed as a sumptuous spectacle of unconventional costumed camp. |
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| The extraordinary spectacle created quite a sensation, and consequently there was a numerous concourse of spectators. |
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| So don't expect too much in the way of pelagics, just enjoy the spectacle afforded by man's own contribution to the underwater environment. |
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| Soccer fans flock in their numbers to these confrontations and expect nothing less than yet another soccer spectacle. |
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| And the spectacle of so many women doing something practical for such a vital cause will gladden the heart. |
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| She also lamented the extra Rs.3 per spectacle, charged for ticketless children. |
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| With a sense of drama and spectacle, the Incas often built on the crown of a ridge. |
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| Start at the top end of town for the sheer breathtaking spectacle, if nothing else. |
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| Her intermedia spaces stage the spectacle through multiscreen projections of images of nature. |
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| As an artistic medium, film is easily the most accessible art form, yet the least discussed beyond its immediate spectacle. |
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| Even the actual toilet cubicles featured mirroring, and the urinal was simply a spectacle to behold. |
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| What is being revealed in this sordid spectacle is the deep-going corruption of the traditional institutions of bourgeois rule in America. |
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| Here indeed was an unforgettable spectacle, designed to mesmerise the West. |
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| Around 20,000 people turned up before sunrise in a hick town in the middle of nowhere to see the spectacle. |
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| We should close down this grotesque spectacle, and grant these performing primates their freedom and their privacy. |
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| The good weather added to the spectacle and everyone involved should be very proud of the celebrations to mark the Feast Day of our Patron Saint. |
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| The Mahabodhi tree itself is a magnificent spectacle with its grand trunk and spread-out branches. |
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| The colour and spectacle of Venetian carnival is coming to York to mark the climax of this year's Early Music Festival. |
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| I was shy and preferred to not make a spectacle of myself in public places. |
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| He says he is no good without them, as he would only make a spectacle of himself. |
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| Their strange and steamy spectacle recalls the primordial ooze from where we all came. |
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| The choreographed lights to the music created an awe-inspiring spectacle as the orchestra and singers played and sang. |
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| They presented a frightening spectacle when they turned out in the piazza to protest. |
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| Young ones, as soon as they were fully developed, would be shaken out of their nests, a spectacle much commented upon by travellers. |
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| Nothing is more distinctive than the chaotic spectacle of Neapolitan street-life. |
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| Townsfolk stood on the side, watching the unusual spectacle but not wanting to get involved. |
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| But the unseemly scenes provided an entertaining spectacle for those drinking in the evening sun outside the pub. |
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| Once there, he was presented with a spectacle that he could hardly believe. |
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| A beam of pure white light sliced through the darkness giving sight to the grizzly spectacle before them. |
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| Several days later at the gates of Peel the villagers gathered silently to view the gruesome spectacle stuck upon a pike. |
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| Surrounded by all this civility and fine design, this spectacle is growing untenably intimate, obscene, dangerous. |
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| However, grimly amusing as this spectacle is, the political reality behind these appointments may be less felicitous. |
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| Lord Rourne watched him, eyes dancing with pleasure at the spectacle unveiling before him. |
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| Now, I had to admit that we watched this spectacle from a safe vantage point behind the baked beans aisle. |
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| Using the concept of spectacle, she explores the many ways in which contemporary natural history is now presented. |
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| But when we looked up, the fires and smoke shifted from ghastly spectacle to specific human horror. |
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| The short story also foreshadows Hemingway's fascination with blood, spectacle and bullfights. |
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| A bullfight now is sheer spectacle and, with six bulls dying in less than two hours, a desperately cruel one at that. |
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| Thus, in a remote corner of Medieval Spain, the beginning of what today is the national Spanish spectacle of bullfighting was created. |
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| Very good friends are likely to enjoy your company even if faced by the spectacle of you sitting in front of an empty plate. |
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| Though given to bouts of rueful depression himself, he could only burlesque the spectacle of an artist's self-congratulatory struggles. |
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| These models freely gave of their time to add spectacle to the style, cheeky charm to the chic and full-on fun to the fashion. |
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| It promises to be an attractive spectacle at Lansdowne Road, and the preamble shouldn't be too bad either. |
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| As the minutes ticked by, the number of students standing on the banks gawking at the spectacle increased steadily. |
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| The spectacle provided by store windows was, in pictorial terms, of double exposure, of disintegration, of seeing and not seeing. |
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| Transfixed, discomforted, we can't turn away from the spectacle as it lurches into even more ghastly territory. |
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| But it is time now to draw back from treating him as a public spectacle and let him fight his demons out of the public eye. |
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| The sea was its usual calm blue, a glassy liquid surface stretching till it fused with the horizon in a spectacle of colour. |
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| I was laughing my head off along with everybody else as we watched this spectacle. |
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| One of the shows we attended was a spectacle complete with Olympic-calibre aerialists, gymnasts and dancers. |
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| The beautiful spectacle became a rarity as very few households continued with the tradition. |
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| We manufacture bespoke custom handmade eyeglass frames, spectacle frames and sunglasses in house at our own eye glasses frame making factory. |
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| Day after day we see the spectacle of a Minister who is unable to do the task that he is paid for. |
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| In a sense, Watkins's images blaze a trail for the tourist at the expense of the adventurer and hollow out the sublime, leaving only spectacle. |
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| A simple explanation is that a stock-car race is a thrilling spectacle, and NASCAR has learned to market it to ever broader audiences. |
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| Diversion and manipulation are niche marketed, the spectacle of prosperity and comfort is produced, and huge profits are made. |
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| They watched the hideous spectacle, stunned by the monster's atrocious acts. |
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| Unsurprisingly, they are promising a spectacle to cater for the fans who like their touchdowns to come with an extra punch. |
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| What was not proper for women, however, could easily be enacted by the dance figures in the space of spectacle. |
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| Human nature and its failings are given a crude inspection, at times becoming a sad, pathetic spectacle. |
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| So we are presented with the bizarre and bewildering spectacle of American planes dropping explosives and food on Afghanistan at the same time. |
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| While the original mono has been beefed up to a Stereo Surround offering, the real treat is the multi-speaker spectacle. |
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| The strange fascination of talent shows has made them a spectacle that continues to draw attentive audiences. |
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| America's emotional attachment to flags attests the country's penchant for patriotic spectacle. |
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| Sebastian's subsequent survival was another aerial spectacle as his boat dropped vertically to the stage in stormy lighting. |
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| The spectacle that is the weekly toga party can only be described as complete drunken debauchery. |
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| Cleopatra enters, and he turns her away, saying that he wishes that Caesar will capture her and make a public spectacle of her. |
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| In recent winters, this has produced the ghoulish spectacle of mule deer, elk and antelope starving to death in endless fields of grass. |
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| He has made a spectacle frame with solar batteries with two bulbs covered with heat shields at the bottom of the frame. |
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| Clowning became more fashionable in the mid seventeenth century when interest in spectacle superseded that for dialogue. |
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| Silence is more expressive than dialogue and poetic lyricism dominates spectacle. |
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| The spectacle of seeing drunken teenage boys and girls falling on the streets early in the afternoon shocked many in Sligo during rag week. |
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| The second film in the trilogy is a towering achievement which actually surpasses the original in terms of spectacle, scale and emotion. |
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| The birds are wheeling in flight over the islands and it really is a fantastic spectacle. |
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| We can't help but respond to the spectacle of a bearded iris, the blowsiness of a rose or a sunflower's jolly petal face. |
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| Visitors already on the rock were looking landwards at the strange spectacle of the bare stretch they had crossed on boats only moments ago. |
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| The enemy in this case is our imaginations, avid for the spectacle of catastrophe. |
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| The spectacle of poetry used as an amatory tool is one of those historical legacies much in evidence when poetry goes public. |
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| The excited crowd stood wide eyed in amazement at the spectacle that lit up the night sky. |
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| It's an amazing spectacle, but it takes practise and dedication to get the most from it. |
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| Many of the ship's 625 passengers peered at the spectacle below, as the ship was moored along the pier and held by thick hawsers. |
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| The spectacle of government policy being manufactured on the hoof left an indelible stain. |
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| Yet ineptitude at the back could not entirely explain away this truly awe-inspiring spectacle. |
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| This is ballet on tarmac and the high speeds involved make this an awesome spectacle. |
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| Being able to stand so close really enables you to get a feel of the real power in the waterfall, it really is an awesome spectacle. |
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| Politicians make for an unedifying spectacle when they are cattle-prodded by party policy into squirming and writhing in unison. |
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| It may not have been high art, but for sheer singalong spectacle and professionalism it was unbeatable. |
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| The spectacle of two Morris Dancers running smack into each other could hardly be bettered for a belly laugh. |
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| To local Kyrgyz and Russians, the spectacle of beefy US soldiers opens a new perspective. |
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| Plastic spectacle prisms, based on the same principle, are invaluable orthoptic aids to therapy. |
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| Both ladies used their expertise to give red-blooded males everywhere a spectacle that would burn in our brains forever. |
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| They will be splitting their sides in London over the spectacle of yet another Scottish solution to a Scottish problem. |
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| What other game could offer such grand spectacle, such majestic thrill, such sheer piercing insight into the raging heart of man! |
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| Everyone laughed uproariously at this, no doubt making a spectacle of themselves to the other patrons. |
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| I would like to try novel-writing, but I don't think I've got the confidence not to make a spectacle of myself. |
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| To make things worse we had the hideous spectacle of a peace campaigner being held under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. |
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| The play itself is a multi-media spectacle that uses puppetry, sound effects, performing masks, and a live band featuring some of the county's top musicians. |
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| The spectacle of the dreamworld of the modern inaugurates a posthuman moment, one in which the experience of the marvelous unfolds as both a utopian gesture and a catastrophe. |
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| They have done this for many years, and they make a colourful and distinctive spectacle as they wander around the town in their homburgs, ringlets, and black suits. |
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| This rare spectacle surprised both local residents and travelers on International Labour Day as they saw the shining sun surrounded by two bright homocentric circles. |
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| The combination of fantastic quality racing and the unique splendour and pageantry that Royal Ascot provides makes it a real spectacle for viewers. |
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| The inauguration is a well produced public spectacle of democracy. |
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| I have seen sharks in a feeding frenzy, turtles fighting and shoals of fish so large that they blocked out the light from the surface, but this spectacle beat them all. |
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| This horrible spectacle included having his skin flayed with iron combs. |
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| There is an emphasis on costume, spectacle and big, declamatory delivery. |
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| Never before has he cut such a powerful figure on the world stage, an adrenaline-charging sensation for the globetrotter and an uplifting spectacle for his audience back home. |
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| The script, moreover, while restoring some of the gloss to the Hughes story, leans more to spectacle than elucidation where his affliction is concerned. |
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| This accolade was accompanied by the wonderful spectacle of dweeby scientists getting narked because they invent everything yet remain unloved and unglamorous. |
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| His TV show is an unwatchable spectacle of rampant egomania. |
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| There is no more melancholy spectacle than a festal hall, the morning after the banquet, when the guests have departed and the lights are extinguished. |
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| It is another spectacle of the south-west monsoon that I look forward to. |
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| Even by the already money-drenched standards of American politics, the Eldridge campaign was a jaw-dropping spectacle to behold. |
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| The disturbing thing nowadays is that resistance as spectacle has cut loose from its origins in genuine civil disobedience and is becoming more symbolic than real. |
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| I attended a spectacle which was comic, realistic, horrifying, macabre. |
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| The spectacle presented by these century-old trees standing close beside a spiry wall of ice, with their branches almost touching it, was most novel and striking. |
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| Yet surprisingly, the woman who originated this annual cavalcade now dismisses the spectacle she seemingly created. |
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| Soon, however, the ghastly spectacle was to erupt on the streets itself. |
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| In fact, it had all the hallmarks of reasonably interesting, middle-of-the-road, weekday morning commercial radio, but it rapidly turned into something resembling a spectacle. |
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| The body of King Richard III was treated with much indignity. Trussed naked over a horse and besmirched with mud, it was borne in parade to Leicester, a sad spectacle. |
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| And, yes, Black Friday provides the spectacle of gunplay, arrests, and casual violence. |
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| The pond is at the height of its glory during the sexennial festival when the reflection of a hundred thousand lights around the temple provides a grand spectacle. |
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| Darrow lost the case but won the spectacle in a drama that lives on today in the magnificent Spencer Tracy film Inherit the Wind. |
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| I'd never consider going to the Castro on Halloween or to that Burning Man thing in the desert, so I thought I could get my jollies with an eye full seeing this spectacle. |
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| A menagerie of wicker animals will be bobbing through the streets of Ulverston this weekend for the annual arts spectacle that is the town's Lantern Festival. |
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| A glittering spectacle of British pomp and majesty it may be, but the clothes are rather tight, and the room is somewhat airless. |
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| The effect I want is different to the proscenium arch, but the proscenium arch developed because the spectacle of a group of people on stage was fascinating. |
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| The plot of the film runs secondary to the spectacle, and is denser than a TED conference. |
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| As I entered the residence in Tehran, I found the whole spectacle weirdly, disconcertingly familiar. |
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| LeBron James has been vilified for his ego, self-indulgence, and the free-agency spectacle of The Decision to join the Miami Heat. |
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| In any case, the counterrevolution will be a long one, affording us many, many opportunities to be outraged while laughing up our sleeves at the spectacle. |
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| After the drama at the start of the second half, we were treated to a more entertaining spectacle, with both teams pressing for a second and gaps appearing all over the pitch. |
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| Though she's known for her powerful sense of drama and has often deployed startling scenic effects as well as spoken text, Rain is a spectacle made from just a few materials. |
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| Had they been in the West Bank, the spectacle would hardly have attracted notice. |
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| The resurrected vampire graves in particular have created quite a spectacle. |
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| But the spectacle playing out on Pennsylvania is about more than one condemned inmate. |
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| However, the game was effectively over as a spectacle when Baker received his marching orders, as Dagenham were quite content to sit back on their lead. |
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| The first sign that one may be ready to join such alternative modes of security may be a contempt, or, at the minimum, a dissatisfaction with the society of the spectacle. |
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| She conveys a genuine interest in music as music, not just as part of a larger spectacle. |
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| So, the film is all about the triumph of spectacle over narrative, but sometimes you need just a little bit of narrative to make things worth while. |
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| It will get you out of the living room and away from the goggle-box to see some spectacular big-screen entertainment which will remind you that spectacle isn't everything. |
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| Massed pipes and drums from 14 regiments accompanied the gun carriage bearing the Queen Mother from Westminster Hall to the Abbey in a moving spectacle of pomp and pageantry. |
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| The killing in Sarasota, Florida, has refocused attention on Toughman, a controversial spectacle in which anyone can slug it out in the ring, no previous experience required. |
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| The struggle between the conventional press and the sensationalists mirrored government efforts to control or eliminate the spectacle of execution. |
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| Now we are treated to the semiannual spectacle of watching Republicans pretend they care about the deficit. |
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| But the fire at the start began fading before he was half way along, so it wasn't quite the spectacle it might have been, even though he was wearing a puffy shirt. |
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| I'm just glad we will be spared the sight of this offensive spectacle. |
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| If the spectacle of the vanity of the self makes us laugh, it makes us cry by the same token, because we are saddened by the great illusions of freedom that the self hoards. |
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| Naturally, most will want to witness this spectacle with an audience, so as not to miss the rice, toilet paper and lines being shouted out by various enthusiasts. |
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| I had very much enjoyed the spectacle though Hugo had seemed keener to direct my attention to the happenings in the private boxes rather than the performances on stage. |
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| At the stern of the ship, they had been watching this spectacle. |
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| For the movie understands that the spectacle is all about the money shot. |
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| Both offer the spectacle of an aggrieved man reacting with righteous rage. |
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| From July 25 to 27, Fort Adams, Rhode Island will be the place to be for anyone interested in the folk music spectacle. |
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| Today, the quaint spectacle of a stage-managed fairy-tale celebration strikes many of us as a load of garbage. |
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| Dean Naoum, for one, thinks the conflict has reduced the city to an unseemly spectacle. |
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| She couldn't believe she was making a spectacle of herself like this. |
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| Others were drinking too much and making a spectacle of themselves. |
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| There's no need to make a spectacle of yourself in front of company. |
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| It could be us falling over and making a spectacle of ourselves in public. |
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| Some of them were making a spectacle of themselves, particularly Rebecca. |
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| The spectacle emphasised how much he seeks to transform our style and substance by politicising every event for its propaganda potential in a divided Australia. |
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| Since then, those who follow its fortunes have had little to observe beyond the continuing unedifying spectacle of very public settling of internal squabbles. |
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| But I care even more about the unedifying spectacle that followed. |
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| If cinematic spectacle grabs eyeballs, then gameplay grabs minds. |
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| During the three-hour spectacle, we watched three matadors kill six bulls. |
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| The rhythm of his run, the accuracy of the plant and the ease and effortless grace with which he flipped over the cross bar provided a fascinating spectacle. |
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| However the rousing spectacle of so many dancers performing heroic choreography in unison should not be missed, even if it does not bear repeated viewing. |
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| The justifiable concern this spectacle raises is that Republicans stand to lose no matter what they do. |
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| If nothing else, I knew that I would enjoy the spectacle of it uncomfortably squirming through the minefields of its own institutional political correctitude. |
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| As a cultural medium based on the notion of spectacle, Sukuma performances presuppose interaction between performer and audience, observer and observed. |
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| There is very little spectacle, beyond the sumptuous costumes, but the actors approach the verse with such attack and panache that a palpable energy is generated. |
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| The Crimbo launch served as a spectacle in its own right and also to highlight the Hopswire exhibition launched at the Ryland Road studios the next evening. |
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| The company had intended the launch to be the usual raucous, overblown tub-thumping spectacle, but subsequent to last week's events a far more sober event will be appropriate. |
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| There is nothing new about England's social, economic and cultural decay, but the spectacle has of late become so unedifying as to be almost unendurable. |
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| Forget the road congestion, it's the traffic jams inside the racecourse enclosures which will occupy the team bringing this magnificent spectacle to York. |
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| Like the Skimmington riders, he employs his costume and spectacle as a kind of physic, though his intentions are to minister to himself rather than the community. |
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| Wide, large spectacle frames will counteract the face's narrowness. |
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| But the spectacle can cloy and a sadness lingers after the pageant has moved on as householders emerge with shovels and brooms to sweep away all trace of their work. |
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| In addition to the simple geometric figure, nature offers us a spectacle of the branched, jagged and seemingly disorderly structures that pose a challenge to geometry. |
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| From a vantage point, the charging bull creating space by dispersing the crowd ahead of it, and the chasers closing the gap behind it, is a spectacle. |
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| Each year this has been a most impressive and enjoyable spectacle. |
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| Heather Taylor and Amy Chu produced and performed in the spectacle. |
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| By the 19th century the play had been transformed into a spectacle of patriotic pageantry celebrating imperial Britain and the glory of its military. |
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| Witness the currently vanishing street frontages of Smithdown Road and Kensington and the mournful spectacle of the Edge Lane tabula rasa. |
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| This is a Macbethian Gothic, a subtype of the shilling shocker designed to thrill the reader with gory supernatural spectacle. |
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| As a recovering fan, I still regard football as a thrilling spectacle. |
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| For PACMA, bullfights are a spectacle in which spectators see the agony and death of a bleeding animal, real animal abuse. |
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| The Kelpies stand 30 metres tall and weigh 300 tonnes each and are truly a spectacle. |
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| The spectacle was 10 times worse after sun up too, the bright daylight rendering John's gossamerthin, ancient grundies see-through. |
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| There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings. |
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| Poverty a spectacle is, as thinketh me, Through which he may his very friends see. |
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| Not merely to theorize the phallic mother, but to theatricalize her, give her spectacle, open the curtain. |
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| For an exhilarating period, until spectacle and sequelitis restored formula to the throne, experimentation became big box-office. |
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| Refracting telescopes first appeared in the Netherlands in 1608, apparently the product of spectacle makers experimenting with lenses. |
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| Which halfwit thought Falkirk v Celtic would be a better TV spectacle than Killie v Ayr? |
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| The sport of bullfighting is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, southern France, and some Latin American countries. |
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| Instead they advised those wanting to view the rare solar spectacle to use special eye shields or pinhole cameras to observe the event. |
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| Beckwith organised a spectacle by showing Webb swimming miles in the River Thames. |
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| A high energy action-packed show, the spectacle is a mix of comical acts and award-winning break dancing against a family-friendly backdrop. |
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| Competitive events were held also in smaller venues such as the amphitheatre, which became the characteristic Roman spectacle venue, and stadium. |
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| Another bird spectacle is on Rhos breakwater, where 40 smart turnstones retain their summer plumage. |
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| This Serengeti Migration of the wildebeest is a curious spectacle listed among the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa. |
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| Every city in France lights up the sky for the occasion with a special mention to Paris that offers a spectacle around the Eiffel Tower. |
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| A fact that proves the excitement and spectacle of KOK Fights is that around 80 per cent of the bouts end with a knockout. |
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| And Chen has condensed what was a 20-hour spectacle with elaborate costumes into its essence. |
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| Another good place to see the spectacle is Over Bridge, but the view here is rather restricted by the adjacent railway bridge. |
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| The spectacle of Red Admirals and Small Tortoiseshells flitting around buddleia bushes is one of the classic sights of British summertime. |
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| Most expressed discomfort or dismay over the whole spectacle. |
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| Our current foodscape is replete with examples of the spectacle and the hyperreal. |
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| Out in the street, under the reddening afternoon sun, a spectacle of ineluctable commerce greeted her. |
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| Beaches, swimming pools and back gardens will be a spectacle of manly moobs, beer bellies, budgie smugglers and sunburnt backs. |
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| Culture jamming is, at root, just a metaphor for stopping the flow of spectacle long enough to adjust your set. |
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| This will nicely counterbalance the spectacle of street theater. |
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| Mr Querido met Mr Davidson in 1994 when Jan was a final qualifying examinator for John's spectacle dispensing examination. |
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| Then comes the spec, circus slang for the spectacle that opens the show. |
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| Never did four walls look down upon an uglier spectacle than these sisters rivalling in unsisterliness. |
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| More to the point, merchandise has been transformed into a permanent spectacle, into a showlike theatre of commodities. |
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| In terms of overall quality, heat three is the contest of the round with Ballymac Vic, Camas and North Bound likely to provide a spectacle. |
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| But Pope Brock plays him in such a one-note key of gulping and spitting and snickering cynicism that the spectacle becomes numbing. |
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| Any relationship to the sad and sordid Eliot and Silda spectacle of 18 months ago is purely noncoincidental. |
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| This new series offers viewers inspirational ideas on how to transform the winter garden into a dramatic and horticulturally rich spectacle. |
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| Quite a different spectacle was offered following Mansell's victory in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. |
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| When the Merry Dancers fill our sky, these council lights distract attention away from this majestic spectacle. |
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| These locker room scenes often serve to demythologize the spectacle of male strength before it can be re-mythologized in the big game. |
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| In subsequent films Mr. Besson realized his ambition to meld visionary, megabudget Hollywood-style spectacle to French sensibility. |
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| His staging was full of spectacle, including several elaborate royal processions. |
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| He was quite an imposing spectacle in his bare feet, with his trousers rolled up to his great knees, thereby revealing his scarlet flannel underdrawers. |
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