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This is not high production value YouTube, or YouTube driven by spectacle or personality.

From Eater

More meta-comedy than action spectacle, it’s the rare superhero story that could potentially appeal to viewers, like me, whose eyes glaze over when battle scenes run longer than a few minutes.

From Time

To be sure, the football spectacle changed to accommodate the realities of the war.

Wilkie speculated in an email that Takano was “laying the grounds for a spectacle.”

Signing now would help him avoid a spectacle this season and focus on basketball and his family, which have been his priorities throughout his career.

Even by the already money-drenched standards of American politics, the Eldridge campaign was a jaw-dropping spectacle to behold.

In 1881, along came Bailey, operator of another circus, and two circuses joined to give rise to the first three-ring spectacle.

Had they been in the West Bank, the spectacle would hardly have attracted notice.

The plot of the film runs secondary to the spectacle, and is denser than a TED conference.

Today, the quaint spectacle of a stage-managed fairy-tale celebration strikes many of us as a load of garbage.

In the evening, St. Peter's and its accessories were illuminated—by far the most brilliant spectacle I ever saw.

Thus all about us is the moving and shifting spectacle of riches and poverty, side by side, inextricable.

Children, like uneducated adults, have been known to take a spectacle on the stage of a theatre too seriously.

No one has ever seen so strange a spectacle and I very much doubt if any one will ever see it again.

As pointed out above, the action in a child's play is not intended as a dramatic spectacle.

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On this page you'll find 60 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to spectacle, such as: comedy, demonstration, display, drama, event, and extravaganza.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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