All 4 Uses of
spectacle
in
The Age of Innocence
- Archer looked down with wonder at the familiar spectacle.†
Chpt 21 *
- At any rate, not the state of society; society, if it could be said to exist, was rather a spectacle on which to call down Biblical imprecations—and in fact, every one knew what the Reverend Dr. Ashmore meant when he chose a text from Jeremiah (chap. ii.†
Chpt 26
- He had just got back from a big official reception for the inauguration of the new galleries at the Metropolitan Museum, and the spectacle of those great spaces crowded with the spoils of the ages, where the throng of fashion circulated through a series of scientifically catalogued treasures, had suddenly pressed on a rusted spring of memory.†
Chpt 34
- Now the spectacle was before him in its glory, and as he looked out on it he felt shy, old-fashioned, inadequate: a mere grey speck of a man compared with the ruthless magnificent fellow he had dreamed of being….†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(spectacle) a notable or unusual event that attracts attention