spectacles
Example Sentences
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And yet he’s never lost sight of the fragile characters at the center of his spectacles.
From Los Angeles Times
And Alexandre’s movie theater, with its bloody spectacles, gets replaced by something very different: a blood bank, a monument to recovery.
The painting showed an old man in cracked spectacles standing beside a lame horse, in the midst of a homestead that had burned to the ground, so that only the smoking ruins remained.
From Literature
Fascist leaders need gargantuan physical symbols of their greatness, and both the architecture and the spectacles inevitably trend toward kitsch.
From Salon
With a rubber hand and a silver tongue, he turns his sales into crowded spectacles.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
