make a spectacle of
Example Sentences
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“But James didn’t want to make a spectacle of it. He didn’t want to make it sentimental.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2024
In her 2011 book “The Art of Cruelty,” Maggie Nelson writes about cultural products that “seem designed to analyze themselves, and to make a spectacle of their essentially consumable perversity.”
From The New Yorker • May 10, 2017
It was such an outrageous scam that congressmen flocked to make a spectacle of it.
From Slate • Apr. 28, 2016
The worst for me is always the same: Some clown turns in a good play, then proceeds to make a spectacle of himself as he dances around in an idiotic rehearsed "celebration."
From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2012
It had been so long, so many years since I’d done this, and I wondered if I’d make a spectacle of myself.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
