How To Use Spectacle In A Sentence
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In one appearance, after the first bout of bombing, he was wearing uncharacteristic horn-rimmed spectacles.
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The stunts are staged to increase the spectacle, so that when cars pile into each other or toy robots battle, there is an intricate detail and near artistic quality.
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The sea was its usual calm blue, a glassy liquid surface stretching till it fused with the horizon in a spectacle of colour.
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The result is a species of amphitheatric arena, in which any of the dramatic exhibitions, that are so pleasing to this spectacle-loving nation, may be enacted.
Recollections of Europe
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So the image of the bespectacled fuddy-duddy in his dusty library is a straw man: I would hazard that print publishing experts are actually on the cutting edge of new media.
Publishing’s not as out of it as you think
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It was a strange spectacle to see the two former enemies shaking hands and slapping each other on the back.
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Both as a pointer to the future and as a spectacle in its own right, the Championships have produced a quality of football that had at least one viewer occasionally leaping from his armchair to applaud the action.
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In a manuscript written in 1299 by Pissazzo, the author says: "I find myself so pressed by age that I can neither read nor write without those glasses they call spectacles, lately invented, to the great advantage of poor old men when their sight grows weak.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
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Our own Hemingway wrote so much grandiose nonsense about this so-called sport that the reader feels a certain dread as the climactic spectacle approaches — a dread heightened by the awareness that Montherlant was a matador in his teenage years.
Monster of Marriage
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Over time, companies competed with one another in presenting ‘grand’ spectacles.
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It turned out to be a cheap pair of spectacles with one red lens and one blue lens.
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My father swore by Kodachrome, taking off his thick-rimmed Philip Larkin spectacles to peer myopically through viewfinders.
Brownie Points
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Their attempt to soften the electorate's impression of her as a scientific cold fish is one of the few amusing spectacles in a grim political landscape.
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He's maybe late forties, early fifties, bookish, greying, bespectacled, wispy - perhaps an academic.
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In the lead was a tall man, about Adam's height, with a head full of graying brown hair and a pair of intelligent-looking spectacles.
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Tournament organisers have brought forward play in the final round by one hour as they attempt to protect what should be a great spectacle from the showery weather which is forecast for later in the day.
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However, the Trouts have skillfully created a spectacle as beautiful as it is thought provoking.
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Up until 10 o'clock, Audrey and I enjoyed sitting and watching the spectacles, drumming our fingers to the impeccable music, and chit-chatting about absolutely useless girl talk.
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Yet ineptitude at the back could not entirely explain away this truly awe-inspiring spectacle.
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This gap is important in even-numbered years in order to accommodate the spectacle of the World Cup or the Summer Olympics, perhaps even the Commonwealth Games or the European Football championships.
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He was a tall, coltish, bespectacled young man, curiously lovable.
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He knew better than anyone what empty mummery such a spectacle as this really was.
LORD PRESTIMION
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While the original mono has been beefed up to a Stereo Surround offering, the real treat is the multi-speaker spectacle.
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The spectacle of Xerxes's defeat tremendously reinforced the traditional conviction that pride goes before a fall.
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the demolition of the huge tower was quite a spectacle
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This disgusting spectacle provides a revealing insight into the debased nature of what passes for political discussion in Britain today.
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There was the bullfighter, he was easy to recognize, and the bespectacled guy with half dozen cameras hanging from his neck was obviously the shutterbug.
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Deliciously charming or incredibly irritating, depending on your point of view, he is always ready with smooth-tongued flattery, eyes innocently beaming behind his spectacles.
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The gold rims of his spectacles glinted in the sun.
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Up until 10 o'clock, Audrey and I enjoyed sitting and watching the spectacles, drumming our fingers to the impeccable music, and chit-chatting about absolutely useless girl talk.
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Matt is not the bespectacled nerd who taps out columns about dog poo in parks at his typewriter in the evenings.
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Yet the realist vision shifts to the phantasmagoric, as spectator and spectacle undergo carnivalesque reversals and interpenetration, in their darkest and most violent manifestations.
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Oroveso to the Druidical chorus, was a muscular spinster, fierce and forty, sporting steel spectacles, a frizette of the most scrupulous honesty, and a towering comb which formed what the landscape-gardeners call "an object" in the distance.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
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This spectacle leads to one of the central points of this book.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sun is out, and he sees a ‘dazzling spectacle’ - a stand of apple trees in blossom.
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He wore pince-nez spectacles, a round-ended stiff collar, and a moustache.
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Forget the road congestion, it's the traffic jams inside the racecourse enclosures which will occupy the team bringing this magnificent spectacle to York.
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Her intermedia spaces stage the spectacle through multiscreen projections of images of nature.
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The two of them whooped and hollered some more; their wives sighed at the spectacle and regarded each other with love.
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My lifetime aversion to raisins, sultanas and currants meant mince pies were out and the Christmas pudding, burning with blue flames after being doused in brandy, was nothing more than an interesting spectacle.
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Heather Taylor and Amy Chu produced and performed in the spectacle.
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The medical point is to show the harmful effects fat has on our insides, and it's a queasy spectacle.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is the age of post-postmodernism -- an age of both inoperative language and linguistic reflexivity, of "meaning" as both immaterial material and material immateriality -- and Douglas Kearney pushes hard against all of this by rendering language as active, operative, and indeed a locus for Spectacle.
Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
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America's emotional attachment to flags attests the country's penchant for patriotic spectacle.
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My spectacles picked up a few drops of water and turned the street lamps into sparkling sodium stars.
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He was a tall, coltish, bespectacled young man, curiously lovable.
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Very good friends are likely to enjoy your company even if faced by the spectacle of you sitting in front of an empty plate.
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We were treated to the unedifying spectacle of two cabinet ministers fighting over a seat.
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The spectacle of the former naval officers washing their dirty linen in public was distinctly embarrassing.
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Apart from the dirt, the airborne dust could also set off a more impressive spectacle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Privatisation currently looms in the background as an iconoclastic aspiration always viewed with rose-coloured spectacles and about which many people speak but very few objectively map out.
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She pushed her spectacles up her nose and sighed.
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By the 19th century the play had been transformed into a spectacle of patriotic pageantry celebrating imperial Britain and the glory of its military.
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And I rejoice that I was left to deal with the Bible alone; for if I had had some theological "explainer" at my side, he might have tried, as such do, to lessen my indignation against Jacob, and thereby have warped my moral sense for ever; while the great apocalyptic spectacle of the ultimate triumph of right and justice might have been turned to the base purposes of a pious lampooner of the Papacy.
Science & Education
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This promises first-class singing and colourful spectacle.
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Gertie saw three of the smaller Dalys rush out of their kitchen and climb onto their coalshed as if to be prepared with a grandstand seat for some coming spectacle.
The Dollmaker
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Spectacle: une heure de spectacle entracte en plus, une douzaine de danseuses de bon niveau.
Spectacle de danse — Climb to the Stars
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Still, the result is an entertaining overview that can be recommended both to surfers and to landlubbers who appreciate the spectacle and have a fondness for the associated strand of American youth culture.
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Charity was a pronounced element in the show — the spectacle of this strange young soul, in despair or recklessness, chaotically seeking occasions for compassion: taking a bath with a homeless man (“Who gets trench foot in the year 2002?!”), or romancing an elderly lady.
Brit Wit
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Last night's spectacle was even more special because it was a supermoon.
Times, Sunday Times
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The body of King Richard III was treated with much indignity. Trussed naked over a horse and besmirched with mud, it was borne in parade to Leicester, a sad spectacle.
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Many media articles that I collected during my fieldwork used the same enticement of spectacle.
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The girl drew from her pocket a little green-leather sheath, worn at the edges to whity-brown, and out of that a pair of spectacles, unconsciously looking round the room for a moment as she did so, as if to ensure that no stranger saw her in the act of using them.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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Her hair is freshly set in loose curls and her green eyes twinkle behind spectacles.
The Sun
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Mother Clap's Molly House is a camp spectacle reminiscent of music hall and it has some shockingly funny one liners.
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He is, in fact, the only spectacled beheader present.
The Holiday Round
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The coroner, a thin, elderly, spectacled man, dressed entirely in black, peered disapprovingly at the crowd and wearily sighed as he took his place at the table.
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Because they are originally a male garment, they often don't have the width at the hem that a woman's hips require, so everyone is treated to the spectacle of a woman from behind, with her t-shirt ricked up over her hips and her bottom on display in a pair of tight jeans or stretch pants.
The Long, Modest Gowns Painted by Peter Severin Kroyer (1851-1909)
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With his lank, greasy hair, dirty jeans and John Lennon spectacles he looks like a seventies student.
THE EXECUTION
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It doesn't make for a moving spectacle - it is too cruel and joyless - but there is no denying the sense of awe which accompanies this rare parade of its talents.
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Their parts evolve in a kinetic parallax of curves and angles that create a shifting perceptual spectacle.
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Swisser put on her headmistressy spectacles and the two of them completed their bit of the forms.
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A handful of other artists staged theatrical public spectacles, performances grounded in the sociologies of place and personality.
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Soon, however, the ghastly spectacle was to erupt on the streets itself.
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At the stern of the ship, they had been watching this spectacle.
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I had very much enjoyed the spectacle though Hugo had seemed keener to direct my attention to the happenings in the private boxes rather than the performances on stage.
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Most interventions by an umpire detract from the spectacle and hence are unwelcome to players and spectators.
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An ‘anti-national’ Press is not alone in its dissent from the orchestrated spectacle.
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The other two, Zinner and the drummer Brian Chase - a bespectacled, sphinx-like jazzhead - don't say much.
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J'y constatais d'abord, qu'une inquiètude nous attendait à tout spectacle auquel nous assistions et qu'une déception à peu près ineffable accompagnait toujours la chute du rideau.
Pélléas and Mélisande
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Don't get me wrong, I love 'em to death, but the way they seem capable of turning any situation into a game of one-upmanship -- even with their closest buddies -- can be a pretty awesome spectacle.
Sundance: Bromance Blossoms In ‘Humpday’ — Watch An Exclusive Clip! » MTV Movies Blog
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Kerala is blessed with rivers, lakes and lagoons and these offer a rare spectacle to tourists.
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Suddenly Mr. Podgers dropped Lord Arthur's right hand, and seized hold of his left, bending down so low to examine it that the gold rims of his spectacles seemed almost to touch the palm.
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The low viewpoint places us among the crowd, so that we become a part of the spectacle.
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The spectacle greatly excited us at the time.
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If Christiana were not so strict, he probably would have slept on it, gazing at the stars in bliss, though it would have been an odd spectacle to see such a grand man asleep on the bare ground.
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Le spectacle se décale de gauche à droite puis dans l'autre sens à chaque solstice me permettant d'assister au ballet des saisons.
French Word-A-Day:
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He really needs to throw away those rose-tinted spectacles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Still, for a felid that lacks sabre teeth, it's amazing (and gruesome) to see such a bloody spectacle.
Giant killers: macropredation in lions
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I called on Cwasey, a shrimpy bespectacled boy with squinty eyes and a freshly shaved head.
Dan Brown: The First Day of "The Great Expectations School" (Exclusive Book Excerpt)
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Unique spectacle means a lot at this festival, but is hardly ever at the expense of artistic quality.
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The excited crowd stood wide eyed in amazement at the spectacle that lit up the night sky.
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It looks very much like the rose-tinted spectacles kicking in.
Times, Sunday Times
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Five minutes into Double Agent – the Eddie Chapman Story BBC2 our bespectacled presenter Ben McIntyre has leapt from the cargo door of a Nazi plane, blown open a locked safe and done a runner in the London underground clutching a sackful of stolen banknotes.
TV review: Double Agent - the Eddie Chapman Story; Imagine … Alan Ayckbourn - Greetings From Scarborough
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The spectacle that is the weekly toga party can only be described as complete drunken debauchery.
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Why should anyone, child or adult, in unwitting dishabille be used as a spectacle?
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She stood filming the whole spectacle with her video camera - as if there weren't enough cameras around to record the event for posterity.
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It was very early in the morning when the corn-stealer was discovered; but being caught in the act, and his whole attention taken up with the sweet milky ears of maize, his "spectacled" eyes did not avail him.
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
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Nadgett put on his spectacles, and read the name attentively; then looked at the chairman over his glasses, and bowed; then took them off, and put them in their case; and then put the case in his pocket.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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Through such experiences and spectacles, the modern, detached, moderate rationality of the narrator, and often the hero, is linked to a restored sensorial excitement, as the novel connects the reader vicariously to a passional self momentarily free from habitual restraint (although in practice, still carefully insulated from any action that would seriously offend conventional proprieties).
Walter Scott, Politeness, and Patriotism
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By her forties she was spectacled, stout and keen on knitting.
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Their strange and steamy spectacle recalls the primordial ooze from where we all came.
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The first use of spectacles for correcting long-sightedness has been traced to Italy, towards the end of the 13th century.
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His silver-white hair when he removed his peruke was a venerable spectacle.
Pioneers of Science
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We can feel dreadful for them without providing commentary at the horrible spectacle of it all.
The Sun
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Oddities apart, visitors to the island are currently enjoying the annual spring spectacles of throngs of nesting seabirds and carpets of bluebells.
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However the rousing spectacle of so many dancers performing heroic choreography in unison should not be missed, even if it does not bear repeated viewing.
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His eyes look huge behind those rosy round spectacles.
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Her hair is freshly set in loose curls and her green eyes twinkle behind spectacles.
The Sun
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This is ballet on tarmac and the high speeds involved make this an awesome spectacle.
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If we give up our vague, devastating quest, I suspect the Iraqis will have a lot of suddenly frantic help from the chaos-sponsors and bystanders in their neighborhood, the countries which have been so deeply delighted at the ongoing spectacle of America's ignorant blunder, at the unhoped-for crippling of America, at the astonishing waste of American lives and resources.
Frank Dwyer: Better Numbers
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For hers is a job of concealment, as much as it is one of spectacle.
Times, Sunday Times
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The spectacle of poetry used as an amatory tool is one of those historical legacies much in evidence when poetry goes public.
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But having viewed several of these spectacles herself, she could not deny that they were perversely arousing.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Reputable companies supplying vintage spectacles from the fifties will be able to give an indication on how robust the frames are likely to be but it is likely that they too will be able to offer any cast-iron guarantees, for the same reason.
Framed Vintage | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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Today the contest is held within strict bounds and has become one of the most exotic spectacles in the Imperial calendar.
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His blonde hair was disarrayed and his spectacles hung off his nose.
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Even at the campiest moments of Spider-Man 3, the franchise was absolutely a series rooted in character development above admittedly top-notch spectacle.
Scott Mendelson: Corporate Filmmaking at Its Worst? Sony Boots Raimi/Maguire, Reboots Spider-Man for 2012
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He gazed up at Cornelius through the unfractured lens of his spectacles.
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His grating voice, frameless spectacles, faded suits and short, stringy hair all broke with the conformist protest style.
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Cushion; mini purse; pin cushion; spectacle case.
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Have you tuned in these past two weeks to the strangest sporting spectacle of the winter?
Times, Sunday Times
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Both offer the spectacle of an aggrieved man reacting with righteous rage.
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Then the Major sat on the bed and whistled; for the spectacle of the senior native commissioned officer of the regiment, an "unmixed" Bhil, a Companion of the Order of British India, with thirty-five years 'spotless service in the army, and a rank among his own people superior to that of many
The Day's Work - Volume 1
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This is particularly true of the Teshekpuk Lake area, where many thousands of birds, including spectacled eiders, yellow-billed loons, snow geese, Pacific black brant, and tundra swans, all nest and in some cases take advantage of the area's remoteness to molt.
The Flight
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More on Ascot Tina Gaudoin on Style: A Flashy, Positively Ghastly Spectacle A Week at the Races This devotion to the Platonic ideal of the horse's head, rather than to representations of, for example, individual racehorses, readily distinguishes his sculptures from the rather pedestrian, often slightly kitsch, bronzes so often found decorating the houses of "horsey" people.
A Magnificent Obsession
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As a brunette who wore glasses and read constantly, it started bugging me early on that girls on book covers, no matter how they were described, were blonde and unspectacled.
New Year, New Season, Same Old WTF
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The script, moreover, while restoring some of the gloss to the Hughes story, leans more to spectacle than elucidation where his affliction is concerned.
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This accolade was accompanied by the wonderful spectacle of dweeby scientists getting narked because they invent everything yet remain unloved and unglamorous.
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Sitting towards the back of the hall was an inconspicuous, balding, bespectacled man with a slight stammer.
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A bespectacled man in a white coat came in.
Seminary Boy
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That's the ultimate spectacle of 'centrism' - eventually they must face and do battle with themselves ..
Poll: McCain Takes National Lead; Even Besting Obama On The Economy
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The play itself begins at 8: 30 p.m., but the spectacle begins at 7: 30 with a team of acrobats performing death-defying feats.
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Hollandshort, bespectacled and plain-spoken-allows that there was some initial studio skepticism about casting Leigh in the pivotal role.
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Both sides play a similar open style of rugby which should produce a fine spectacle.
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Still, let's not get heavy about a show so reliant on music and spectacle.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was in Venice, the centre of glass making, that the first pair of spectacles appeared, around 1280.
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It was a spectacle whose distastefulness was compounded by the victory parade at the end of the shoot-out, when the young striker was carried around the pitch in triumph on the shoulders of the team's reserves.
World Cup 2010: Rise of German romantics counters sense of injustice
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The monarch butterfly migration is one of the natural world's great spectacles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The glint on the wire frames of his spectacles echoes the glint on the birdcage wire.
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Placed in Charterhouse School in London in 1817, Beddoes showed a great inclination to literary production and public spectacle.
Introduction
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The sunrise seen from high in the mountains was a tremendous spectacle.
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Lindgren, a kind of bespectacled Aaron Eckhart and one of Moss' right-hand men, had edited a piece called "Freakoutonomics" -- an article about making it during the recession -- and press time was getting near.
Inside The Adam Moss-Hugo Lindgren Rivalry: WWD
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Some few who had no music in their souls, or no money in their pockets, dawdled about; and the old spectacle of the visitor – wife and the depressed unseasoned prisoner still lingered in corners, as broken cobwebs and such unsightly discomforts draggle in corners of other places.
Little Dorrit
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The subdued hues of the soft corals and sponges and the shimmering fish flirting along the reef edge made a stunning spectacle.
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Just as he really was, he, who was not familiar with such mirrors, could see Count Manuel, housed in a little wet dirt with old inveterate stars adrift about him everywhither; and the spectacle was enough to frighten anybody.
Figures of Earth
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A group of 98 baby fruits bats, known as spectacled flying foxes
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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For reading and occasional headaches, she wore a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles prescribed but not specially ground by the optical department, cater-corner from the children's shoes.
Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
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Her spectacles caught the light from somewhere and glimmered under the straight blonde of her hair.
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Perhaps she falls (never in a way to injure herself) to the floor and apparently loses consciousness, closes her eyes, rolls her head from side to side, moans, clenches her fists, lifts her body from the floor so that it rests on head and heels (opisthotonic hysteria), shrieks now and then and altogether presents a terrifying spectacle.
The Foundations of Personality
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He wears spectacles and clearly enjoys pasta as much as high culture.
Times, Sunday Times
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Was I witnessing a spectacle of biblical proportions?
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We were treated to the unedifying spectacle of two cabinet ministers fighting over a seat.
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The irony is that this spectacle is a temporary loss of national identity.
Times, Sunday Times
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So far that, when I parked in the town square by the fish 'n' chip shop, my spectacles misted up as I got out of my lovely, cold car into a very steamy evening.
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Gardeners, cooks and veggies mix in a celebration of education, spectacle, fun and food samples.
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Once again the high culture of the past is misrepresented through the distorting spectacles of the present.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wasn't going to make a spectacle of myself just to give you a laugh!
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• Finally, what about the ne'er-do-well who grabbed the spectacles from the face of uber novelist Jonathan Franzen?
Diary
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It was well after sunrise and Madame Comer was yet to show her spectacled face at Versailles.
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She had expected a typical professor image to address the gathering - old, spectacled, and balding but brilliant nevertheless.
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Which is why it was probably quite unnerving for the bespectacled man looking out of his window at me, a grown man, wobbling in his general direction.
The Sun
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In June, Dayron Robles, a bespectacled Cuban, shaved one-hundredth of a second off of Liu's world record. The Chinese was going into the Beijing Olympics as the underdog.
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The glare of the floodlights focussed on the gladiators engaged in the middle, the arena one grand spectacle, the game fierce and engaging.
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While Mr. Noble and Mr. Funicello have not stinted on spectacle including an amazingly vivid snowstorm they have once again kept the spotlight on the actors, who respond with bold and resourceful performances.
Two Kings Make a Winning Hand
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Tony has provided Andrei with spectacles to correct the cast he has in one eye and thinks he will be able to improve the sight in the other eye as well.
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Most economists expect similar growth this year to last and they are not known for viewing the world through rose-tinted spectacles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr Keston, a neat, undemonstrative figure in his blue shirt, dark blue jacket, tie and spectacles, will not be taking a radical brush to the Theatre Royal, where any cobwebs have been removed over the past decade.
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The political differences from then are obvious: in 1977 the Labour government was well on its way to becoming a miserable, unsupportable spectacle with 20 long years in the wilderness.
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His TV show is an unwatchable spectacle of rampant egomania.
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The second period, thankfully, was a more edifying spectacle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Javier Castrilli, the current subsecretary in the Office of Safety in Public Spectacles with the Ministry of the Interior, mentioned that for safety reasons, he would like to see the match played at 11am local time as compared to the 4pm kickoff that is currently on the fixture.
Pompilio To Talk On Tuesday
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When the door opened a small, roly-poly faced man wearing spectacles walked in smoking a pipe.
COVER STORY
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Families strolled through the ancient streets enjoying the spectacle, buying cheap toys for the children, and snacking on street food.
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We witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of an old lady climbing a tree to rescue her cat.
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All the gold frame spectacles are separated, then lenses removed and frames sent away.
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The Gaikwar, whose state processions were gorgeous to a wonder, occasionally inaugurated spectacles like those of the old Roman arena, and we hear of fights between various wild animals.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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The spectacle of horse racing there would be amazing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both managers lavished praise on their players for serving up a worthwhile spectacle.
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Once in that position his clothing was torn from his body, his arms and legs pinioned, and his bare back flogged with a "cowhide" until the blood ran from it, and the gashes made in his flesh by the cruel strokes presented a ghastly spectacle as they gaped open.
Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and KuKlux Outrages of the Carolinas. By a "Carpet-Bagger" Who Was Born and Lived There
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Moreover, each spectacle can be enjoyed by local residents as much as by tourists.
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I practiced the ol 'show biz mantra: le spectacle doit continuer!
Degouliner - French Word-A-Day
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I had a short and successfully anonymous encounter with a podgy woman in spectacles.
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I attended a spectacle which was comic, realistic, horrifying, macabre.
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Although you can easily witness the spectacle by boat, be careful.
Smithsonian Mag
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The babu, flat on the ground, was turning his head to polish his spectacles; Bella Blair had her face hidden, but I noticed her fists were clenched.
Fiancée
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He's wearing a pair of spectacles and his usually unruly mop of brown hair is now slicked down with a neat side-parting.
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Massed pipes and drums from 14 regiments accompanied the gun carriage bearing the Queen Mother from Westminster Hall to the Abbey in a moving spectacle of pomp and pageantry.
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I approach the spectacle of sex and politics with a certain playfulness.
Boing Boing
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Unique spectacle means a lot at this festival, but is hardly ever at the expense of artistic quality.
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Hangings took place outside the prison as a public spectacle.
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He stopped the car at the entrance to the lot, and stepped out to survey the bizarre spectacle of animal playtime.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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In the fall of the year this luxuriant growth of grass would be set on fire by the Indians or hunters, and especially when the wind was high would sweep resistlessly over the prairies, forming a spectacle, especially at night, that was at once magnificent and terrifying.
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Hello, Stephanie," the fortyish man with horn-rimmed spectacles and a pin-striped dress-shirt replied.
Stephanie Consults Her Clipboard [Card #7: The Chariot (WORK-IN-PROGRESS — v.4)]
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He remembered the judge's look of distaste over his half-moon spectacles.
THE SCAR
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This raw spectacle overflows with fizzing stories which unveil the chaotic comedy and tragedy behind a flawed wedding reception.
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He sees the gaiety of Sundays, the flashes of the sun, the oddity of a crowd carried away by the rhythm of the valses, the laughter, the clinking of glasses, the vibrating and hot atmosphere; and he applies to this spectacle of joyous vulgarity his gifts as a sumptuous colourist, the arabesque of the lines, the gracefulness of his bathers, and the happy eurythmy of his soul.
The French Impressionists (1860-1900)
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While it is perhaps best known for the amazing spring spectacle of thousands of fritillaries in flower, there is something of interest to see at North Meadow throughout the year.
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With rich munificence, as we often say, in a most blinkard, bespectacled, logic-chopping generation, Nature has gifted this man with an eye.
The French Revolution
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But the spectacle can cloy and a sadness lingers after the pageant has moved on as householders emerge with shovels and brooms to sweep away all trace of their work.