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spectacle
noun as in something showy; exhibition
Example Sentences
This is not high production value YouTube, or YouTube driven by spectacle or personality.
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.
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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