bread and circuses
Example Sentences
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They’re capitalist endeavors, not charity cases, whose stated mission is to provide bread and circuses to the masses while making as much profit as possible in the process.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2025
Instead, at the end of the day, as the world spins out of control, people want bread and circuses to keep them from contemplating the horrors that we ourselves have created.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2023
We might ask our governments to aim for more than mere bread and circuses, though.
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2022
At the very beginning of the presentation, Zuckerberg attempted to assure viewers that all this metaverse talk wasn’t just bread and circuses, referencing “all the scrutiny and public debate” currently swirling around his company.
From Slate • Oct. 28, 2021
Cannons and colour, bands and decorations, bread and circuses, emperors uncovering to us, beautiful queens waving dainty handkerchiefs—this is what lies behind the dry Treaties of the history books.
From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel
