spectacularity

Example Sentences

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Is it by the spectacularity of the gaffe, or by the distance the mighty personage fell?

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2016

Nature's spectacularity diverted him, as if he had been a child, from his own affairs, which seemed to give him a dull pain.

From The Debtor A Novel by Stevens, William Dodge

But here in Golden, which had been his home, the spectacularity of his passing seemed to have had an even more profound effect.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

Then take the 'Lombards' in Italy itself; the founding of the earliest banks in Venice, Lucca, Genoa, Florence; the glamour of it, the spectacularity of it, the dealings with popes and with foreign kings!

From Under the Skylights by Fuller, Henry Blake