All 13 Uses of
spectacle
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- In Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris an edifying and gratuitous spectacle was provided for the people in the Hotel de Ville of Paris in the reign of Louis XI. in honor of the birth of the dauphin.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- It's a spectacle they want!†
Chpt 12 (definition 1) *
- Yes, I think the ladies who came to see the spectacle must have been satisfied—the show had been a varied one.†
Chpt 12 (definition 1)
- Now we are either horrified or pretend to be horrified, though we really gloat over the spectacle, and love strong and eccentric sensations which tickle our cynical, pampered idleness.†
Chpt 12 (definition 1)
Uses with a very rare meaning:
- Marfa observed that, from the day of the burial, he devoted himself to "religion," and took to reading the Lives of the Saints, for the most part sitting alone and in silence, and always putting on his big, round, silver-rimmed spectacles.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- He used to lend it to a trustworthy person, a merchant of our town called Trifonov, an old widower, with a big beard and gold-rimmed spectacles.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- "What's that for?" asked Grigory, looking at him threateningly from under his spectacles.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- And that small young man in spectacles….†
Chpt 8 (definition 2) *
- The young man in spectacles moved forward suddenly, and stepping up to Mitya, began with dignity, though hurriedly: "We have to make …. in brief, I beg you to come this way, this way to the sofa….†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- The Second Ordeal "You don't know how you encourage us, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, by your readiness to answer," said Nikolay Parfenovitch, with an animated air, and obvious satisfaction beaming in his very prominent, short-sighted, light gray eyes, from which he had removed his spectacles a moment before.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- He had spectacles on his nose, which Ivan had never seen him wearing before.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- This trifling circumstance suddenly redoubled Ivan's anger: "A creature like that and wearing spectacles!"†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- Smerdyakov slowly raised his head and looked intently at his visitor through his spectacles; then he slowly took them off and rose from the bench, but by no means respectfully, almost lazily, doing the least possible required by common civility.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (spectacle) a notable or unusual event that attracts attention
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(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus) The term spectacles is also used to refer to eyeglasses.