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spectacle as in:  made a spectacle of herself

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  • It made for an unforgettable sports spectacle.
    spectacle = an event that attracts attention
  • What a spectacle that would be for the sewing bees and Bible study groups.   (source)
    spectacle = event that attracts attention
  • It somehow made the event grander, a greater spectacle.   (source)
  • Lina turned away from the miserable spectacle.   (source)
  • I took off running, my sneakers splashing rainwater from puddles, the hand clutching the kite end of the string held high above my head. It had been so long, so many years since I'd done this, and I wondered if I'd make a spectacle of myself.   (source)
    spectacle = something that attracts attention
  • On a beach, they made a spectacle of themselves when Fred, feeling emasculated by the pity over his missing leg, flung away his crutches, hopped over to Louie, and tackled him.   (source)
  • My mind became unnaturally calm, as if part of me had lifted right up out of my body and was sitting on a tree limb watching the spectacle from a safe distance.   (source)
    spectacle = noteworthy thing to see
  • What a spectacle she made, her wide rear end sticking out, singing in that tuneless, nasal voice.   (source)
    spectacle = thing that attracts attention
  • The Devon's course was determined by some familiar hills a little inland; it rose among highland farms and forests which we knew, passed at the end of its course through the school grounds, and then threw itself with little spectacle over a small waterfall beside the diving dam, and into the turbid Naguamsett.   (source)
    spectacle = attraction of attention
  • And when, as on that day, nine of the greatest masked spirits in the clan came out together it was a terrifying spectacle.   (source)
    spectacle = event that attracts attention
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  • Nat and the redheaded seaman who had painted the Dolphin's figurehead that morning on the river were cheerfully exchanging insults with a cluster of young bound boys who had stopped to enjoy the spectacle, the two culprits holding their own in an unchastened manner that delighted the onlookers.   (source)
    spectacle = something that attracts attention
  • Always at night the alarm comes. Never by day! Is it because fire is prettier by night? More spectacle, a better show?   (source)
    spectacle = noteworthy (impressive or attention-getting)
  • Weren't they thrilled by the spectacle before them?   (source)
    spectacle = a notable or unusual event that attracts attention
  • People were coming from all over to see the spectacle, which featured Pompeii's champion fighter.   (source)
  • FATHER-JACQUES: They're making a proper spectacle of themselves!   (source)
  • This happened about once a month, and was a popular spectacle.   (source)
    spectacle = event that attracts attention
  • The driver of the lorry pulled up at the side of the road and, with his two companions, stared open-mouthed at the extraordinary spectacle.   (source)
  • He spread out his hood more than ever, and Rikki-tikki saw the spectacle-mark on the back of it that looks exactly like the eye part of a hook-and-eye fastening.   (source)
    spectacle = thing that attracts attention
  • Perhaps there was a more real torture in her first unattended footsteps from the threshold of the prison than even in the procession and spectacle that have been described, where she was made the common infamy, at which all mankind was summoned to point its finger.   (source)
    spectacle = event that attracts attention
  • But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be—a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.   (source)
    spectacle = noteworthy thing to see
  • That superspectacle that Dirk Manleigh is starring in and then a good adventure show.†   (source)
  • FATHER JACQUES: Spectacle or no spectacle, it's the result that counts ….   (source)
    spectacle = a notable or unusual event that attracts attention
  • MOTHER-ROBERT: Roberta would never dream of making a spectacle of herself.   (source)
  • We march on the grass and pull the wagon behind us, around apple and cherry trees, which become skyscrapers soaring into clouds, heads poking out of thousands of windows to watch the spectacle passing below.   (source)
    spectacle = noteworthy thing to see
  • Still, the sight was a true spectacle.   (source)
  • Among ragged captives and guards in drab uniforms, Sasaki was a spectacle, dressing like a movie star and wearing his hair slicked back and parted down the middle, like Howard Hughes.   (source)
    spectacle = something that attracts attention
  • But the most terrifying spectacle of all was Boxer, rearing up on his hind legs and striking out with his great iron-shod hoofs like a stallion.   (source)
    spectacle = event that attracts attention
  • The spectacle of two young women giving breast to their babies made her blush and turn away her face.   (source)
  • For a moment the khaki mob was silent, petrified, at the spectacle of this wanton sacrilege, with amazement and horror.   (source)
  • Alas! if he discern such sinfulness in his own white soul, what horrid spectacle would he behold in thine or mine!   (source)
    spectacle = thing that attracts attention
  • Peradventure the guilty one stands looking on at this sad spectacle, unknown of man, and forgetting that God sees him.   (source)
    spectacle = event that attracts attention
  • When such personages could constitute a part of the spectacle, without risking the majesty, or reverence of rank and office, it was safely to be inferred that the infliction of a legal sentence would have an earnest and effectual meaning.   (source)
  • The scene was not without a mixture of awe, such as must always invest the spectacle of guilt and shame in a fellow-creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering at it.   (source)
  • We doubt whether any marked event, for good or evil, ever befell New England, from its settlement down to revolutionary times, of which the inhabitants had not been previously warned by some spectacle of its nature.   (source)
  • were this a savage spectacle   (source)
    spectacle = noteworthy event
  • O piteous spectacle!   (source)
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spectacle as in:  wore spectacles

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  • She used spectacles for reading.
  • She had the glummest face Harry had ever seen, half-hidden behind lank hair and thick, pearly spectacles.   (source)
  • August stared through her spectacles.   (source)
  • Angela found the sequined spectacles, wiped off the wet, crystalline mess, and placed them on her partner's nose.   (source)
  • She wore enormous spectacles, twice as thick and twice as large as Meg's, and she was sewing busily, with rapid jabbing stitches, on a sheet.   (source)
  • He smeared the sweat from his cheeks and quickly adjusted the spectacles on his nose.   (source)
  • He had taken off his spectacles and was in the act of resettling them on his nose with his characteristic gesture.   (source)
  • They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose.   (source)
  • When I try to imagine him as a boy I see him with gray whiskers and spectacles, just as he looks in Sunday school, only small.   (source)
  • He sported an infectious grin, wire-rimmed spectacles, and a tweed jacket with patches on the elbows.†   (source)
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  • Edgar glanced at the crossword puzzle and set down the brush and penciled in spectacles and pushed the paper back.†   (source)
  • It is Andrey, as prompt as ever, with his Book in hand and a pair of spectacles resting on the top of his head.†   (source)
  • He studied them through his round spectacles.†   (source)
  • I slam my palm on the desk in front of him, and he jerks out of his daze, staring at me over his spectacles.†   (source)
  • I heard the merest clicking of claws against the bottom of the boat, no more than the sound of a pair of spectacles falling to the floor, and the next moment my dear brother shrieked in my face like I've never heard a man shriek before.†   (source)
  • She dropped her chin, and her eyes looked down through her spectacles, as if she were reading from her lap.†   (source)
  • It catches the metallic rim of the basketball hoop, the chain link of the tire swings, the whistle hanging around Zaman's neck, his new, unchipped spectacles.†   (source)
  • Abanazer Bolger had thick spectacles and a permanent expression of mild distaste, as if he had just realized that the milk in his tea had been on the turn, and he could not get the sour taste of it out of his mouth.†   (source)
  • Those are his purple spectacles you're wearing, aren't they?†   (source)
  • Horace Whaley's eyes bulged—his thyroid gland was overactive—and swam, too, behind his spectacles.†   (source)
  • "Morning," said Phoebe, peering through the silk curtains of her bed and fumbling for her spectacles.†   (source)
  • There are letters from Confederate soldiers lying on a Federal desk, strategically placed antique spectacles and handkerchiefs.†   (source)
  • He took off his spectacles and wiped them with his handkerchief before putting them back on.†   (source)
  • From his shirt pocket Sticky took out a thin piece of cotton cloth and polished his spectacles with it.†   (source)
  • I feel I can rely on you, Janine, Aunt Lydia would have said, raising her eyes from the page at last and fixing Janine with that look of hers, through the spectacles, a look that managed to be both menacing and beseeching, all at once.†   (source)
  • Dr. Erland pulled the spectacles from his pocket and set to cleaning them with the hem of his lab coat.†   (source)
  • He wore old-fashioned spectacles that made him look earnest and completely belied his easygoing charm and juvenile but totally disarming sense of humor.†   (source)
  • Rodraguez is a soft-spoken woman with silver-rimmed spectacles and a gold cross on a chain around her neck.†   (source)
  • He's wearing a nightcap and a pair of spectacles on the tip of his nose like a storybook rat.†   (source)
  • In college, I even wore glasses for a bit, fake spectacles with clear lenses that I thought would lend me an affable, unthreatening vibe.†   (source)
  • So he came with a big hat and spectacles and a coach box full of paper.†   (source)
  • He stopped in front of me and raised his white eyebrows enthusiastically behind the round rings of his spectacles.†   (source)
  • He was wearing a white button-down shirt, faded Levi's with threadbare knees, pliable gold-framed spectacles that wrapped around his ears.†   (source)
  • When we reached England, Samuel and I presented the Olinka's grievances to the bishop of the English branch of our church, a youngish man wearing spectacles who sat thumbing through a stack of Samuel's yearly reports.†   (source)
  • Using the spectacles as magnifying glasses, Nick moved them across the wriggling, shifting words.†   (source)
  • I told you, I wasn't wearing my spectacles and he looked just like a wharf rat runnin' through the kitchen.†   (source)
  • Many of the people around them donned spectacles with blue lenses.†   (source)
  • Finally, he laid down his quill, moved his spectacles high on his nose, and peered through them at me.†   (source)
  • But his blue eyes behind the thick round spectacles were as mild and merry as ever, and he gazed from one of us to the other with frank delight.†   (source)
  • The spectacles have good lenses that magnify things: when I try them on, even French words look large and easy to read.†   (source)
  • He was wearing rimless spectacles and a forties-style pencilline mustache that did nothing at all to make him look like Errol Flynn.†   (source)
  • He was dressed in his usual uniform: old jeans, a flannel shirt, and a bent pair of gold-rimmed spectacles that sat askew on the bridge of his nose.†   (source)
  • He was wearing spectacles, a bow tie, and a period vest.†   (source)
  • He wore a pair of spectacles and a priest's robe.†   (source)
  • "I'll wear mine," John told the salesman, a tiny round bald man with spectacles which quickly dropped to the end of his nose as he laced up the skates.†   (source)
  • When she looked out, her eyes blurred from her migraine, she did not recognize him because he had shaved his beard and was wearing spectacles.†   (source)
  • I wondered what ghastly spectacles might have been staged here, but we didn't stay very long.†   (source)
  • His body was bony and erect, his skin dark and clean-shaven, his eyes avid behind round spectacles in silver frames, and he wore a romantic, old-fashioned mustache with waxed tips.†   (source)
  • She wore a white blouse and a full skirt gathered at the waist by a wide leather belt, and stylish, crescent-shaped spectacles.†   (source)
  • As if to confirm his suspicion, a pair of rusted, broken spectacles hung from a hook on the other side of the cabinet.†   (source)
  • Junior adjusted his wire-rimmed spectacles and seemed to make a mental calculation.†   (source)
  • Along Elm all the stores were dark, the two banks were dimly lit, the neon spectacles in the window of the optical shop cast a gimmicky light on the sidewalk.†   (source)
  • In an office across the street, a man wearing spectacles and a business suit was standing by the window, doing some kind of tai chi routine.†   (source)
  • On that day in March, as usual, Las Vegas was full of spectacles and name acts.†   (source)
  • Grandpa got tangled up in some underbrush, and lost his hat and spectacles.†   (source)
  • The tall girl, with the bobbed hair and spectacles, wearing a long, loose coat, walked swiftly down the street.†   (source)
  • I had seen the stud bulls on my grandfather's ranch during breeding season and witnessed their spectacles among the cows.†   (source)
  • He was a handsome, sophisticated medical doctor with curly dark hair and round Fiorucci spectacles, a brilliant, ambitious man, charming and persuasive, with a quick, flaring temper, who had done extraordinary things in his career.†   (source)
  • Prudence Lemokouno in her hospital bed in Cameroon, untreated by the staff (Naka Nathaniel) Dr. Pipi was short and solidly built, with spectacles, a serious and intelligent manner, superb French—and a resentful contempt for local peasants.†   (source)
  • It was partly why she used spectacles with large wire frames, because she thought they made her eyes seem closer together.†   (source)
  • The person looking for us was a small fellow with spectacles in a wizened face.†   (source)
  • Upstairs in Kenyon's room, on a shelf above his bed, the lenses of the dead boy's spectacles gleamed with reflected light.†   (source)
  • She smiled so broadly that her cheeks became peach round, and her eyes behind her spectacles became slits of delight.†   (source)
  • He wore iron-rimmed spectacles.†   (source)
  • Plenty of time to see the oddities, the freaks of nature, the spectacles!†   (source)
  • Chaplain Shipman was seated in his tent, laboring over his paperwork in his reading spectacles, when his phone rang and news of the mid-air collision was given to him from the field.†   (source)
  • Lynch settled his spectacles on his nose.†   (source)
  • Tweedy snapped at Omar, who was giggling in fits as he tried to piece together Tweedy's mangled spectacles.†   (source)
  • In any case, if you took away the long hair, which was curled up into a headdress with a feather stuck in it, and then added a pair of silver spectacles, he would look exactly like the prime minister back home, or at least like the prime minister would look after a year in the sun.†   (source)
  • A somewhat heavyset woman with piles of brown hair going gray sits at a large desk, a pair of wire-rimmed spectacles on her nose.†   (source)
  • But as he would tellNabby in a letter, it was really the ladies "who are always to me the most pleasing ornaments of such spectacles."†   (source)
  • The Cartographer lifted his spectacles and peered more closely at Bert.†   (source)
  • I had long disliked the spectacles that were enacted on this green, where our fellow villagers had been set in the stocks for swearing or scolding or ungodly behaviors.†   (source)
  • Jean Louise saw the glint of gold-rimmed spectacles slung across a sour face looking out from under a crooked wig, the twitter of a bony finger.†   (source)
  • At age fifty she was a handsome woman, straight-backed and conscious of her breeding, her thick black hair pulled tightly into a bun, her hazel eyes appraising behind her round spectacles.†   (source)
  • They paid her no mind as she walked through the lab into another hall and then entered a large office where Monique bent over a thick ream of photos with a scientist who vaguely resembled Einstein, bushy hair, spectacles, and all.†   (source)
  • He wore a severe black turban wrapped tightly around his high brow and studied the large American wearing Pakistani clothes through a set of square, old-fashioned spectacles, before offering his hand for a firm shake.†   (source)
  • It was full of old brass keys, old receipts, yellowed letters tied in bundles, hairpins, tintypes, and at least a dozen pairs of gold-rimmed spectacles with bent or missing rims, and sonic with the glass missing.†   (source)
  • Its door opened and a man stepped out-a killer in a black raincoat, wearing thin, gold-rimmed spectacles.†   (source)
  • Adams smiled to the gallery, put on his round wire-framed spectacles, and walked toward the bench to begin his presentation.†   (source)
  • This was like one of those Roman Coliseum spectacles where they threw the Christians to the lions.†   (source)
  • She peers at Iris over her spectacles.†   (source)
  • When they were lucky enough to catch him head-on, all his features but that big shovel of a jaw vanished in the shade of his hat brim, so that all that appeared above his mouth were his spectacles, the lenses reflecting the photographer's image back at him.†   (source)
  • With proper left arm (number-three) and stereo loupe spectacles I could make untramicrominiature repairs that would save unhooking something and sending it Earthside to factory—for number-three has micromanipulators as fine as those used by neurosurgeons.†   (source)
  • I can tell he's special by the sparkle behind her spectacles.†   (source)
  • Many times, the thick spectacles of a young girl have been the barb of the hook she sinks into my heart.†   (source)
  • The little red face moved closer, and tiny gray eyes blinked behind thick spectacles.†   (source)
  • The other man was much older and wore steel-rimmed spectacles.†   (source)
  • He wore a neatly trimmed, gray goatee, round spectacles, and a green plaid shirt.†   (source)
  • A chain-smoker, his teeth had a color that nearly matched the shade of his hair, and even his wire-rimmed spectacles developed a smoky film.†   (source)
  • This night, at least, the sober-physician disguise of her severe clothes and steel-rimmed spectacles could not conceal the sparkling depths of Georgine Delmann's natural ebullience.†   (source)
  • I saw my father watching him from behind his steel-rimmed spectacles, the smile still playing around the corners of his lips.†   (source)
  • Cotton pulled some papers from his briefcase and slid a pair of wire-rimmed spectacles from his pocket.†   (source)
  • In the bathroom mirror, he saw that even the rims of his nostrils had whitened; they looked like an oddly placed pair of spectacles.†   (source)
  • "I said there were very few men in Narnia," said the Doctor, looking at the little boy very strangely through his great spectacles.†   (source)
  • At one of the places sat a large, morose-looking man with closely cropped gray hair and small rimless spectacles.†   (source)
  • The spectacles were intended to make him not only half blind, but to give him whanging headaches besides.†   (source)
  • He was a short heavy-set man who wore spectacles.†   (source)
  • A tall guy with spectacles.†   (source)
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  • The doctor has warned me about coffee, but he's only fifty — he goes jogging in shorts, making a spectacle of his hairy legs.†   (source)
  • The dogs all stood in their pens, gazes fixed on the spectacle of Glen Papineau crawling down the aisle.†   (source)
  • She had spared the bar the spectacle of trying to manage her dogs, but in their place she had brought along a round-faced fellow with a receding hairline for whom puppylike devotion seemed to come a little more naturally.†   (source)
  • But she hardly saw the spectacle through the tears running down her face.†   (source)
  • What I had before me was a spectacle of wind and water, an earthquake of the senses, that even Hollywood couldn't orchestrate.†   (source)
  • I grew anxious thinking about witnessing the spectacle of a man being electrocuted, burned to death in front of me.†   (source)
  • Earlier that morning, she had been afraid that she would make a fool of herself, that she would turn into a pleading, weeping spectacle.†   (source)
  • He hardly heard what Professor McGonagall was telling them about Animagi (wizards who could transform at will into animals), and wasn't even watching when she transformed herself in front of their eyes into a tabby cat with spectacle markings around her eyes.†   (source)
  • The man thought he seemed some sad and solitary changeling child announcing the arrival of a traveling spectacle in shire and village who does not know that behind him the players have all been carried off by wolves.†   (source)
  • As the booster soared, Mitch had no time to watch the spectacle on the main screen.†   (source)
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  • The motorists were unaware, of course, that the spectacle they were witnessing was that of the Grand Empress of Savannah parading every wig, gown, and gaff in her imperial wardrobe.†   (source)
  • I think everyone in the building has really appreciated the spectacle.†   (source)
  • Even so, I'm glad I watched that spectacle (just as I'm glad I watched Triumph of the Will).†   (source)
  • I understood that I was supposed to be terrifled by this spectacle—these two demonic creatures on this dark, lonely road.†   (source)
  • Her gaze was a spectacle you couldn't look away from.†   (source)
  • At this news-as Jordan had expected-there was a collective sigh from the media, all of whom had been hoping for a spectacle.†   (source)
  • As Owen put it, "IF THE WIGGINS HAD BEEN THERE, THEY WOULD HAVE MADE A SPECTACLE OF THEMSELVES—WE WOULD NEVER HAVE FORGOTTEN IT!"†   (source)
  • None of them had seen the spectacle; none of them had seen the shadows in the gusting wind.†   (source)
  • Can't resist a spectacle, can you?†   (source)
  • Kohler was staring into the annihilation chamber with a look of utter amazement at the spectacle he had just seen.†   (source)
  • While one slips me into the spectacle of silk and purple gemstones, the others fix my hair and makeup.†   (source)
  • It didn't fly too well-not even to the congregation, who sat in the audience staring wide-eyed at the spectacle-and the newspaper said things like "Though it was certainly interesting, it wasn't exactly the play we've all come to know and love..."†   (source)
  • No one would suspect her of cheating, because who in her right mind would make such a spectacle of herself if she intended to cheat?†   (source)
  • Drivers were only just registering the spectacle through their windscreens.†   (source)
  • She weeps when she looks down the long dreary vista of time and beholds in horror the spectacle of Limerick boys defiling themselves, polluting themselves, interfering with themselves, abusing themselves, soiling their young bodies, which are the temples of the Holy Ghost.†   (source)
  • Confronted with the spectacle of William Spiver, they had forgotten about Ulysses.†   (source)
  • Pedro, too, was lucky enough to witness the spectacle, since he was just leaving the patio on his bicycle to go for a ride.†   (source)
  • "Lord have mercy upon this poor leper," he would say, while Baby Kochamma tried desperately to distract her guests from the spectacle by picking out the biscuit crumbs and bits of banana chips that littered their beards.†   (source)
  • As Ford gazed at the spectacle of light before them excitement burned inside him, but only the excitement of seeing a strange new planet; it was enough for him to see it as it was.†   (source)
  • He watched the spectacle for a while, then decided that the whippings were going too slow, so he had guards set up long tables and lined us up in rows, four across.†   (source)
  • DeFrees, not quite so amused, standing behind Hobie and frowning slightly at the spectacle of my vodka-smelling guest rolling and tumbling with the dog on the carpet.†   (source)
  • In the early morning light, I see a bizarre spectacle.†   (source)
  • A crowd of kids gathered around to witness the spectacle.†   (source)
  • They were all looking forward to the night's spectacle.†   (source)
  • The second was high and more powerful than the first, and the third was a spectacle.†   (source)
  • It took a moment for her to drag her eyes from the spectacle of Beloved's head to see what she was staring at.†   (source)
  • Chairman, do you mean ...making a public spectacle of myself?†   (source)
  • But having destroyed and consumed her, he moveson, not sufficiently touched, it seems to me, by the pathetic spectacle he has caused.†   (source)
  • But this is sure to be another sad spectacle, and a man wanders over to see just how bad I'm willing to let myself look in public.†   (source)
  • There was nothing, nothing, Gatlin loved better than a spectacle.†   (source)
  • This last would be the easiest and grandest spectacle except for the danger of flying embers in the event of a change of wind from the lake.†   (source)
  • She nattered on about the spectacle whilst assembling the tea things for Madam and Lady Seymour, who had come again to call.†   (source)
  • I tore my eyes from the spectacle as swiftly as I could, for Christoffels' expression forbade us to notice anything out of the ordinary.†   (source)
  • But the children soon came back, unable to resist the scene of such a spectacle.†   (source)
  • Slowly, no doubt embarrassed by the spectacle, Jacob walked into the Great Room.†   (source)
  • Nadia and her colleagues spent much of that day staring at the television next to their floor's water cooler, but by afternoon it was over, the army having decided any risk to hostages was less than the risk to national security should this media-savvy and morale-sapping spectacle be allowed to continue, and so the building was stormed with maximum force, and the militants were exterminated, and initial estimates put the number of dead workers at probably less than a hundred.†   (source)
  • It was a spectacle, that circle of white faces pressing closer and closer, and that leading figure, that Gentleman Death, turning to the audience now with his hands crossed over his heart, his head bent in longing to elicit their sympathy: was she not irresistible!†   (source)
  • I didn't think about the spectacle I would have to star in much too soon.†   (source)
  • She would chain herself with other ladies to the gates of Congress and the Supreme Court, setting off a degrading spectacle that made all their husbands look ridiculous.†   (source)
  • On the field below, the two groups of boys watched the spectacle with craned necks, and from different perspectives.†   (source)
  • Lincoln's funeral procession was the saddest, most profoundly moving spectacle ever staged in the history of the United States.†   (source)
  • Fascinated by the marvelous spectacle that seemed to be performed in her honor, for she was the only person watching it, Fermina Daza did not notice when the passengers for the return trip began to come on board.†   (source)
  • It was as if we were a provincial audience, New Haven to the real world's New York, where history could try out its next spectacle.†   (source)
  • He twisted his neck in an attempt to get an unobstructed view, but the spectacle had already vanished into the dark.†   (source)
  • But she sensed also the undercurrent of crowd excitement, their enjoyment of the spectacle.†   (source)
  • It would make you throw up to see how these girls make a spectacle of themselves in church.†   (source)
  • Lencho invited his cronies from the Berets to come witness his spectacle.†   (source)
  • Amos waved at the spectacle below us.†   (source)
  • I am quite aware it would take a far wiser head than mine to answer such a question, but if I were forced to hazard a guess, I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart.†   (source)
  • I've witnessed this spectacle every September for twenty-one years.†   (source)
  • You can put any kind of spin on it you like, but you end up with the same unbearable spectacle.†   (source)
  • Why is this spectacle being made of me?†   (source)
  • The mountain displayed a constantly changing face of weather and shadow, rain and sun, a spectacle of African light.†   (source)
  • I don't normally care, but after the talk with Hector, I want to go home, not be a spectacle.†   (source)
  • Ghosh kept nodding his head, a big smile on his face, waving, keeping up an agitated chatter, "I know, I know, you unkempt rascal, good morning to you, too, yes indeed, I have come to delight in this heathen spectacle ....Let's hang you, by Jove, it certainly is most civilized of you to do this, thank you, thank you," and inching forward.†   (source)
  • I didn't even have the strength to feel chagrin at embarrassing my queen and staunchest defender once again by providing a spectacle for the entire court of Eddis.†   (source)
  • The worker watched the spectacle with great interest.†   (source)
  • And Perry could remember many another rodeo spectacle-see again his father skipping about inside a circle of spinning lassos, or his mother, with silver and turquoise bangles jangling on her wrists, trick-riding at a desperado speed that thrilled her youngest child and caused crowds in towns from Texas to Oregon to "stand up and clap†   (source)
  • Days went by, weeks went by, party after party went by, and all Florin was moved by the spectacle of their great hunting Prince at last so clearly and wonderfully in love, but when they were alone, all she ever said was, "I wonder where could Westley be?†   (source)
  • As Mandy would have said, I was a spectacle.†   (source)
  • Across from him at the narrow table, James Davis lifts his nose from calculus homework to watch, visibly bemused, the spectacle of Cedric trying to look "baaaad."†   (source)
  • My impression was that the youthful aristocracy of every country often made of itself a spectacle unseemly.†   (source)
  • You're just making a spectacle of yourself.†   (source)
  • Abruptly the sound and spectacle were gone and the night was silent.†   (source)
  • The spectacle of the Transvice dissolving a person like a cloud of smoke caught in the wind wasn't even what weighed on his thoughts the heaviest.†   (source)
  • The rest of the women, perhaps because they don't want to make a spectacle, watch reluctantly as their men drift off and get in line.†   (source)
  • The East River had become a spectacle of British ships of every kind lining nearly its entire length.†   (source)
  • My stomach drops, and I turn from the spectacle.†   (source)
  • The idea was for a group of important Western intellectuals to march to the Cambodian border and by means of this great spectacle performed before the eyes of the world to force the occupied country to allow the doctors in.†   (source)
  • The alternatives, he says, will be the obtaining of Professional status, or, by 1971, reduction to the role of spectacle-sellers.†   (source)
  • Dad listened to the radio with a drink in his hand and watched what I now know was a pitiful spectacle.†   (source)
  • A sorry spectacle, which included, at times, the staff yelling at the patients for bringing really, really filthy bottles.†   (source)
  • Yossarian's heart pounded with fright and horror at the pitiful, ominous, gory spectacle of the broken corpse.†   (source)
  • After all: who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of his loneliness?†   (source)
  • I prayed that Mahtob would never be subjected to such a spectacle.†   (source)
  • I'm afraid I may have to take the fireplace poker to my brother to silence this spectacle.†   (source)
  • He hung in the air wearing his ragged sweater and old trousers—the spectacle compounded by his ridiculous stilts.†   (source)
  • The man had made for a colorful spectacle, his red robes flapping while his blade writhed with pale green flames, but everyone knew there was no true magic to it, and in the end his fire had guttered out and Bronze Yohn Royce had brained him with a common mace.†   (source)
  • Portia, Lettie, and the rest of the family were worried about the spectacle of a trial, of having to face the Roston family in court.†   (source)
  • Anytime the president of the United States drives through a crowded city, there is a careful balance between protecting his life and ensuring the spectacle of the chief executive intermingling with the American people.†   (source)
  • It was a rare spectacle, and I stood on the hill in the apple orchard, transfixed by the slowing advancing columns of white outlined against the black clouds behind.†   (source)
  • I see it in my mind's eye as a spectacle: Sukeena in front of him by a few steps, my husband's slightly drunken gait following a few paces behind.†   (source)
  • And then the treetops began filling as well, as if a hundred thousand Shataiki had been called to witness a great spectacle, and the black trees were their bleachers.†   (source)
  • Gasping for air, I reminded myself that I'd come here to be normal, not a spectacle.†   (source)
  • His images startle, but Rowell always felt they failed compared to the experience of simply standing there, dwarfed by the spectacle of what he considered the most beautiful place on earth, a place he dubbed "the throne room of the mountain gods.†   (source)
  • Marcus and his brother will enjoy such a spectacle.†   (source)
  • And I wondered, Are they all Clifton's friends, or is it just for the spectacle, the slow-paced music?†   (source)
  • He's giving us the keys to the kingdom through the back door so that we may tidy up this mess and end the public spectacle.†   (source)
  • The next day, up in the more affluent North Division, Jonas Hutchinson was numbed by the spectacle he beheld: "As far as the fire reached, the city is thronged with desperadoes who are plundering and trying to set new fires....Several were shot and others hung to lampposts last night....The like of this sight since Sodom and Gomorrah has never met human vision."†   (source)
  • It was a grisly spectacle that made South Africa appear as if it was on the brink of internal war.†   (source)
  • They had spread out along the grassy bluffs to witness the spectacle as if it were a show put on for their amusement.†   (source)
  • Shortly after lunch, just before the rains hit, the clockers were startled by an improbable spectacle.†   (source)
  • Mi querido Gustavo, Zaida Puente changed all my plans for Lourdes's wedding and arranged a spectacle instead at the Tropicana Club.†   (source)
  • Miracles and paradoxes could be explained by the marvelously independent courses of their elements, and perhaps real beauty could be partially understood in that it was not just a combination, but a dissolution; that after the threads were woven and tangled they then untangled and continued on their separate ways; that the trains that pulled into the station in a riveting spectacle as clouds of steam condensed in the midnight air, then left for different destinations and disappeared; that the drama of a striking clock was impossible without the silence that was both its preface and epilogue.†   (source)
  • I thought of children like my own Damon and Jannie, watching this spectacle in their homes.†   (source)
  • I keep thinking that this was what she would have enjoyed-the spectacle of those passengers tonight.†   (source)
  • Towards the middle of the lawn, close to a tarnished bronze statue of Eros, two young men lay on their backs watching the spectacle.†   (source)
  • Now look at the spectacle of your life.†   (source)
  • Isn't it a genuine spectacle?†   (source)
  • An awesome spectacle that I was a part of.†   (source)
  • Drizzt turned away and slumped back against the rocky ridge; he, too, was exhausted from the spectacle.†   (source)
  • By then we had blown our noses and quit making an open spectacle of ourselves.†   (source)
  • Right in the middle of all the pretense, it's an even more pretentious spectacle.†   (source)
  • Food Street encompassed the crushing spectacle of some 30 restaurants within the stretch of two blocks.†   (source)
  • This, too, how the love works and then doesn't: a mutual spectacle of imagination.†   (source)
  • It isn't the prettiest spectacle ....seeing a couple of middle-aged types hacking away at each other, all red in the face and winded, missing half the time.†   (source)
  • Stories, more even than stars or spectacle, are still the currency of life, or commercial entertainment, and look likely to last longer than the euro.†   (source)
  • Next, they were to go to the grave-site service where the priest would no doubt say more uplifting words, bless the children, sprinkle his sacred dirt; and then another six feet of ordinary fill would be poured in, closing this terribly odd spectacle.†   (source)
  • As for the train ride to New York — famous mountains lumbered by, famous rivers, plains, canyons, the whole holy American spectacle, without his looking up once.†   (source)
  • Chamberlain could see the men shuffling, strange pathetic spectacle, dusty, dirty, ragged men, heads down, faces down: it reminded him of a history book picture of impressed seamen in the last war with England.†   (source)
  • However, if we don't weaken the States' rights provision, the United States will become the weird spectacle—a government without any constitutional power to enforce its own laws.†   (source)
  • I'd forgotten-you performed a dramatic spectacle on the way.†   (source)
  • I entered the room and found two members of the R Company cadre, a sophomore and a junior, surrounding an overweight freshman shaped like a yam, enjoying the spectacle of his weeping.†   (source)
  • It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.†   (source)
  • It was the middle of rush hour, Oedipa was appalled at the spectacle, having thought such traffic only possible in Los Angeles, places like that.†   (source)
  • Although I was much entertained by the spectacle of one of this continent's most powerful carnivores hunting mice, I did not really take it seriously.†   (source)
  • I stared up at him, not recognizing him, and felt my face flush with the embarrassment of being a public spectacle.†   (source)
  • I felt a quaking in the knees, my parched mouth gave forth a string of senseless vocables, and then I found myself lurching toward the men's room, blessed sanctuary from a spectacle of hatred and cruelty such as I had never conceived I would witness firsthand.†   (source)
  • In the Century first-row balcony, where their seats always were, I'd be sitting beside my father at this hour beyond my bedtime carried totally away by the performance, and then suddenly the thought of my mother staying home with my sleeping younger brothers, missing the spectacle at this moment before my eyes, and doing without all the excitement and wonder that filled my being, would arrest me and I could hardly bear my pleasure for my guilt.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, to human observers the spectacle was disturbingly schizophrenic.†   (source)
  • For perhaps a minute the spectacle numbed reaction.†   (source)
  • With the body definitely not being the self, and not the spectacle of the senses, so it also was not the thought, not the rational mind, not the learned wisdom, not the learned ability to draw conclusions and to develop previous thoughts in to new ones.†   (source)
  • The driver, who found all this extremely comical, slowed down so that the passengers could enjoy the spectacle.†   (source)
  • A sweet spectacle for me!†   (source)
  • [He goes once more to the various exits, but the spectacle of the rhinoceros halts him†   (source)
  • The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.†   (source)
  • promising what spectacle Gabriel could not imagine, nor could he imagine how she had escaped her young man of the evening.†   (source)
  • Powell stood quietly, enjoying the spectacle.†   (source)
  • There is no point in making a spectacle of yourself, Janine, said Aunt Lydia.†   (source)
  • It was turning out to be the spectacle I'd hoped.†   (source)
  • From the tip burst three silver cats with spectacle markings around their eyes.†   (source)
  • Up and down the street, people have settled on the sidewalks and rooftops to watch the spectacle.†   (source)
  • And let me tell you, it's quite a spectacle.†   (source)
  • They collapsed in a riffling click of doom, but Pedi didn't notice the spectacle.†   (source)
  • You could feel the energy in the room pick up, from the sheer spectacle of it all.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, I said; thinking what a spectacle I made, with a smirking ruffian to either side.†   (source)
  • The men all smiled and laughed at the spectacle.†   (source)
  • It was a spectacle wondrous and awe-inspiring.†   (source)
  • "What a spectacle!" wrote Ray Stannard Baker in his American Chronicle.†   (source)
  • Then the strangest thing happened: The clouds parted and the sun burst out, flooding the spectacle.†   (source)
  • And what class of a spectacle you'd be strolling down the street, lopsided in Limerick.†   (source)
  • Maven pretends to lament the lack of spectacle, if only to fill the silence.†   (source)
  • The deep-swimming fish covered their mouths with their fins and laughed sideways at the spectacle.†   (source)
  • Then, on Fridays, he went to Ghazi Stadium, bought a Pepsi, and watched the spectacle.†   (source)
  • Now that Macon had come out, so to speak, he seemed to enjoy making a spectacle of himself.†   (source)
  • He did his earnest best, though, and seemed oblivious to the spectacle he was making of himself.†   (source)
  • Creeping to the hill's summit, the boys looked out upon a baffling spectacle.†   (source)
  • It was quite a spectacle, not all at once or to one region, of course.†   (source)
  • This is the kind of thing I should look out for crying without reason, making a spectacle of myself.†   (source)
  • Emma and I slipped in among them and huddled in a corner, eyes glued to the unfolding spectacle.†   (source)
  • He knew he was making a spectacle of himself.†   (source)
  • The SS men who were watching were greatly amused by the spectacle.†   (source)
  • As more troops followed, a naval spectacle of more than ninety vessels filled the Narrows.†   (source)
  • Woolf felt the spectacle was worth the price of new paint and a furious agent.†   (source)
  • Imagine what Nicky said, watching this spectacle.†   (source)
  • All along the benches men put down their cups and spoons to turn and gape at the grisly spectacle.†   (source)
  • But for the "straggling and loitering" to be seen, it would have been an encouraging spectacle.†   (source)
  • But it was not this gruesome spectacle that made Max's blood run cold.†   (source)
  • Drizzt and several other drow witnessed the spectacle.†   (source)
  • Tappan was used to such treatment and spectacle.†   (source)
  • Thomas sat with Rachelle and his lieutenants in one of the gazebos overlooking the spectacle.†   (source)
  • They certainly provided a spectacle of squirming on the grand scale.†   (source)
  • Sit still, watch the unfolding spectacle, pay attention.†   (source)
  • Atlee's lazy, like most judges, and he wants this spectacle of a case right here in his courtroom.†   (source)
  • The crowd laughed and ate baklava and enjoyed the whole spectacle.†   (source)
  • Bloom and the ACLU take a grave matter and turn it into a spectacle.†   (source)
  • Diamondnodded shyly to all, as though being scrubbed and shod made him a circus spectacle of sorts.†   (source)
  • A NATION without a NATIONAL GOVERNMENT is an awful spectacle.†   (source)
  • Yes, she said it was a most marvelous spectacle.†   (source)
  • He and I make a great spectacle of leaving the tent.†   (source)
  • The little man was there: a soggy spectacle on a pale and spattered horse.†   (source)
  • Now wot would Missus Nightwing say if she was to see you makin' such a spectacle o' yerself?†   (source)
  • After a moment, everyone turned their backs on the spectacle.†   (source)
  • Mostly, though, what united them was the spectacle they'd witnessed in the Russian gulag.†   (source)
  • Mark poked his head out to watch the continuation of the spectacle.†   (source)
  • I feel it's a spectacle, even though no one's watching.†   (source)
  • "Well, this spectacle will be even better," Ephialtes promised.†   (source)
  • It was a spectacle that never would have happened if Mallos hadn't orchestrated it.†   (source)
  • The mere spectacle of Yuga had overwhelmed their senses.†   (source)
  • "Making a spectacle of yourself," as if there's something wrong in the mere act of being looked at.†   (source)
  • Adams could well have gloated over the spectacle of Jefferson under fire.†   (source)
  • These knights had been there the whole time, watching the spectacle.†   (source)
  • It is a spectacle of this kind that makes one feel the insignificance of man.'†   (source)
  • And if we refuse to cooperate with your spectacle?†   (source)
  • The nervous feline bolted away at the spectacle, but no magical bolts struck it, or even near it.†   (source)
  • years later, I witnessed a similar spectacle in Aden.†   (source)
  • Before the service started, Lou asked Cotton about this spectacle.†   (source)
  • "Why are they yelling that?" asked Max, deeply disturbed by the spectacle.†   (source)
  • The less a job pays, Bronzini thought, the harder the work, the more impressive the spectacle.†   (source)
  • It was a spectacle such as could only have been imagined until that morning.†   (source)
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