How To Use Spectacular In A Sentence

IHSB: The way to describe the first pro season for the most oddly named man alive (Allen Lorenz Pollock = A.J. Pollock?) is solid but unspectacular, which is disappointing given that the organization expected him to rip through Mid-A South Bend given that Midwest League Competition wasn't foreign to Pollock, given that Notre Dame plays an exhibition game against the SilverHawks at the beginning of each season. AZ Snakepit
These sometimes spectacular occurrences, called calving events, are a key step in the process by which climate change drives sea level rise. EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
The financial managers and economic wizards are happy that Pakistan has achieved a level of macro-economic stabilization, which is spectacular and unprecedented.
Often considered to be one of the most spectacular lizard species, sometimes called the "Jesus lizard", the green basilisk is a striking addition to any reptile collection.
Amid it all stands Mitt Romney, not the high-flying investment lots of Republicans yearned to put their money on, but the unspectacular Treasury bill of Republican candidates, a man whose emphasis on jobs and the economy makes him a safe enough bet at a time like this. GOP 'Flight to Safety' Benefits Romney

Service throughout the hotel is bright and efficient without being spectacular.
The house itself was unimpressive but the location was spectacular.
Every sport has its areas in which you can make the most spectacular eejit of yourself.
The new Touch Bar is spectacular and the convenience of the fingerprint sensor is useful. The Sun
Spectacular Soviet successes in rocketry, beginning with Sputnik, sent the United States into a deep emotional depression.
It was seldom spectacular, lacking the Van Gogh-like, wild-eyed artistry of Cunningham, but it worked.
Hot Wheels Classics: The Redline Era proudly showcases more than 500 spectacular color photos so some of the finest cars of this groundbreaking time.
The only other scores of a hard-fought, if unspectacular affair, arrived in the opening 13 minutes of the second half.
Spectacular silver panne velvet roses on black chiffon.
The photosynthetic technique for transferring energy from one molecular system to another should make any short-list of Mother Nature's spectacular accomplishments.
The family dynamic gets splintered when Glen develops a second personality - Glenda - and starts acting out, leading to spectacular patricide.
Spectacular stunts and a great cast make this another strong instalment in the franchise. The Sun
See spectacular stunts Look to the skies at midday. Times, Sunday Times
He didn't realize until much later what a spectacular achievement his father made in getting his commission as an officer.
He is said to have assembled a bunch of fellow martial arts experts to carry out the spectacular heist. The Sun
Take in views of the Carmel Valley Hills and enjoy the spectacular scenery of the Monterey pine forests, rocky coastline and vistas of crashing surf, as a chorus of sea lions barks on the rocks.
Fast-flowing rivers create spectacular waterfalls, gorges and a myriad of caves.
The cult following these films now carry is spectacular and deserved.
The landscape is totally different from that of the area surrounding the resorts, with a wide variety of spectacular plant life, including the saguaro cacti and century plants.
The scene was set for a spectacular ice war which would rage for weeks that winter. THE FROZEN WATER TRADE
It was cashing in a spectacular consumer boom.
He did not disappoint us - the spectacular display of fire and colour, reflected in the harbour, was absolutely beyond words.
This territory has lush green hills, azure blue skies and spectacular beaches where the loudest noise you will hear is the sound of a coconut dropping to soft white sands.
After two spectacular flameouts in two decades, it looked as if the company's antidiabetes program was finished.
The lake seemed to breathe, expanding and contracting, rising and falling, its surface level changing several feet in a matter of minutes, spectacular and terrifying at once.
The government's budget was strengthened by increased customs revenue and more particularly by a spectacular rise in indirect taxation.
Comsic rays are very high energy particles which strike the Earth's atmosphere and produce spectacular showers of billions of electrons, muons, and other particles.
The Spartan/dryad mix for your current WIP looks spectacular too. Guest Author: Maree Anderson - Even Demons Get The Blues
They're the cruddy ones no one wants, not the spectacular, awesome ones with fairy wings and gypsy stallions with big manes," she says. Virtual Products, Real Profits
The river snakes through some of the most spectacular countryside in France.
Twice last week sportsmen have proved me spectacularly wrong. Times, Sunday Times
Now he is a celebrity in France, a country that takes immense pride in its spectacular roll call of great mathematicians. Times, Sunday Times
Today the girls perform on a new springy podium permitting spectacular acrobatic elements.
The region's benign climate, chalky terrain and spectacular summer light is a wine-maker's dream.
However, take your boat up past the cages and through the narrows, and the loch opens up into an even more spectacular vista.
Why are the opinions of the exceptionally overopinionated classes so spectacularly important as they must take up valuable space. The Guardian World News
Stock markets will break their three-year losing streak, but the recovery will be unspectacular, Irish business leaders said.
The minister's admission turned out to be a spectacular own goal.
Yes, moon launches are spectacular, but the Space Shuttle would turn our spaceward fantasies into reality.
A rocky hillside rises from behind the pool, making for a spectacular setting on a starry night. Times, Sunday Times
The skittering streaks and brushy splashes of color - punctuated by incidental drips and blobs - tend to remain discrete, but when they are allowed to run together, the effect is spectacular.
The real surprise though is how unspectacular the programme is.
Even without flowers, she says, variegated lamiums are a spectacular foil for hellebores, especially with the white flecks of the ground cover playing off the darker-flowering hellebores.
The festival will end with a spectacular laser show.
It goes on and on, but I didn't want it to end, found myself sitting at the computer snorting and guffawing at the over-the-top shmaltzy spectacularity. 15 Minutes of Bliss
Peter Bowler has spent years resurrecting old and forgotten words that are spectacularly precise in their meaning.
He was obviously thinking I had done something spectacular while he was away.
The most prominent of these lessons is that bottom-up infrastructure succeeds and sometimes even spectacularly.
The ground dropped away from the far edge of the trail to a spectacular view of the canyon and the mountains beyond.
But he brought these "ignudi" crashing down to earth, revamping them as a sequence of sexily insalubrious half-length boys, interacting equally with spectacular still-life elements and with the viewer. The Misery Memoirist
It was the kind of unspectacular housing block that makes up vast swaths of the city, scattered in between the genteel stucco mansions that make it into the films. NDTV News - Top Stories
For a brief time in the 1990s, nerds rose to a spectacular height with the rise of computers – a nerd-dominated domain – when people were forced to kiss a lot of nerd tuchis in order to get their networks to run. Overcoming Your Nerd-Dom: Part 1 In A Possibly-Continuing Series
This small but spectacular reserve gives visitors a dramatic taste of northern Kenya and its unique dry-country animals: oryx, gerenuk, reticulated giraffe and rare Grevy's zebra.
It doesn't make the sting of defeat any less painful, and there are some who think it's all over, but the campaign has succeeded in whetting the media's appetite for a spectacular showdown on March 4, which is already being promoted as a sequel to Super Tuesday. Hillary Finished? - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
This was a thoughtful rather than spectacular performance. Times, Sunday Times
Yet even the spectacular desert scenery can't compete with Toni Collette's complex stunner of a performance in the leading role.
A ride on the oldest funicular railway in Asia, to the Victoria Peak, commonly known as the Peak, was spectacular.
In the tradition of isolated rural buildings, the house is conceived as a singular gesture responding to the strength of the site: a grassy terrace overlooking a meandering river facing north up a spectacular valley, next to an old eucalypt. Bluff Farm House by Richard Cole Architecture
Now China expects him to come up with something suitably spectacular for the Olympics ceremonies. Times, Sunday Times
Despite the spectacular opening and frequent nods to the original movie, the goofy humour of earlier offerings is sadly absent. The Sun
We are still a bit mystified by the speed of India's spectacular collapse. Times, Sunday Times
Desjardins is still an above-average rearguard on a competent but unspectacular defensive corps.
They are common, unspectacular and difficult to cutely anthropomorphise. Watch this
Thers's a a slight chance of some sunshine in the west, but nothing spectacular.
The dancing, with an emphasis on athleticism, is quite spectacular.
Besides losing both world wars in spectacular fashion, near total destruction in the thirty years war, being Napoleons personal chess board, and spending half of this past century partitioned and garrisoned by the competing superpowers, Germany has spent most of its history as a collection of small principalities under varying degrees of rule by Hapsburgs. Matthew Yglesias » 18th Century Polish Strategic Dilemmas
The rate of expansion of our overseas trade has been spectacular.
I could finally see all the spectacular fish, corals, and associated animals that I've seen in aquariums and on TV all my life.
Bacteria and microbes in the soil and in the waste itself do a spectacular job of breaking down the waste.
This is the most spectacular financial crash of the decade.
SCCULENTS: Adenium is spectacular for its swollen stems, called caudex, and colourful flowers. Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News
Another of NASA's most successful missions today sent back spectacular new pictures of Mars.
This was foreseeable because of the spectacular shift to the right; the post-war consensus ended not with a whimper but with a bang.
Combretums grow in large numbers and there are giant sycamore figs, mkuhlus, maroelas, kiaats and spectacular flowering trees such as the white pear and the red and orange kaffirboom.
Streetball often features spectacular dunks and alley - oops, flashy dribbling and trash talking.
It torments me as I stroll the course, wallowing in spectacular failure.
The most spectacular inclusions are bands of native copper that parallel the concentric banding of the agate.
In his most remarkable feat, he constructs a low-lying town in a dry lakebed only to drown it for a spectacular inundation.
A particularly spectacular blackbird arrival was recorded during November 5, 1961 following a north-westerly gale the previous day.
A must is probably the most spectacular and romantic royal castle in the world - Neuschwanstein.
The dominant image of Hong Kong is its spectacular skyline; the enduring sentiment, the voracious urbanism that skyline evinces.
His spectacular style had considerable appeal. ITF World of Tennis
‘There were all the signs of it being a spectacular autumn but if you look around the arboretum a lot of trees are still green,’ he said.
Despite some spectacular competition, Stephanie had never hated anyone more than she hated Alexander at that moment. CHAMELEON
These are spectacular limestone caves hidden underneath the castle. Times, Sunday Times
The stage was being chaotically remodelled for the second spectacular of the evening.
As for the gameplay, senior producer Jeronimo Barrera took the "brawler" genre -- 2-D fighting games like Double Dragon that had become passe -- and spectacularly reinvented it by incorporating advances from its more recent titles, most notably the ability to give orders to one's fellow gang members. Why Rockstar Is the Leader of the Pack
There is a spectacular 'nightglow' show at sunset tonight with music and fireworks. Times, Sunday Times
She hopes that by April the Castle will be returning to normality and brides will walk down the staircase into the spectacular galleried Great Hall which is 80 ft high.
The sound is less spectacular: a nerveless mono mix.
Sunrise looks spectacular in the nature; sunrise looks spectacular in the photos; sunrise looks spectacular in our dreams; sunrise looks spectacular in the paintings, because it really is spectacular! Mehmet Murat ildan
Spectacularly, he is thrown by his captors over the side of the bridge and caught to dangle on his ropes and chains in mid air.
It was around that time she began painting cityscapes, no doubt inspired by the spectacular view they had from their 30th floor apartment.
Hardy sprinkles little gold flakes that simultaneously float atop this buzz-maker and match the spectacular, cavernous Art Deco ambiance.
If you don't get down to the market before 4.30 pm, you'll have missed your last chance to enjoy their spectacular spuds, caulis, carrots and broccoli, all grown on the family firm's own acres in Wigginton.
Seeing as we all knew who won it months ago, it was spectacularly unexciting, unenlightening and unentertaining. Times, Sunday Times
At night, light from the interior radiates out in thousands of shimmering pinpricks, like a spectacularly illuminated porcupine.
The 1930s became the classic decade of Imperial spectaculars.
The spectacular spring flowers of azaleas and rhododendrons make them among the most popular garden shrubs.
Villagers also enjoyed spectacular helicopter rides as well as listening to sound advice from Bromley police and firefighters.
I called Andie to tell her how spectacular the stuff looked.
The Waterford keeper advanced from his line to spectacularly parry Holt's thunderous shot from 18 yards before the ball had been hacked to safety.
But if you really want to know, the playing is fine: solid, if unspectacular.
Both were, of course, memorable events which used spectacular fireworks, acrobats, singers, dancers and musicians to showcase the city to the world.
The 21-year-old righthander was spectacular in his major league debut, throttling the Chicago White Sox over six-plus innings as the Mariners knocked off another division leader, 12-4, in the opener of a twi-night doubleheader. American League Baseball - Mariners vs. White Sox
It proved a spectacular and adrenalized experience, running flat out. William Bradley: Iowa Then and Now
It's easy to bake, being essentially a cake more than a steamed pudding, it comes with a spectacularly simple sauce, it freezes well and it reheats like a dream for seconds and thirds.
The event was spectacular and well produced as entertainers performed to their utmost.
Of course he'll try to back-pedal, tacking a spectacular cop-out ending that leaves the central family intact and his final upbeat words nonsensically used as a coda.
Geologically young, the Rockies exhibit faulting, glaciation, and volcanism, resulting in rugged, spectacularly scenic terrain.
Resembling a creature on the run with flames streaming behind it, the Spitzer image of a dark globule in the emission nebula IC 1396 is in spectacular contrast to the view seen in visible light.
Indeed, almost as wide and as deep as the car it sits on, the slide-and-tilt sunroof is so spectacularly capacious that the interior could, given a wicker chair or two and a magazine tidy, usefully double as a conservatory.
The vertiginous traumas of meat and marking often generate spectacular results, like the miasmatic language of Beatrice in The Cenci, or the prosopopeia of Swellfoot the Tyrant. _Queen Mab_ as Topological Repertoire
While it would be additionally wonderful were the Mass to be celebrated ad orientem (it will be celebrated versus populum) the use of the original high altar with its ciborium is a spectacular bit of news. Installation of Vincent Nichols to Westminster to be Celebrated at Original High Altar
Canoe slalom is one of the most spectacular Olympic watersports, demanding skill, stamina and courage.
We passed through the Grand Arch, a majestic limestone-cavern entrance-way into a hidden valley, and surveyed the spectacular grotto called Devil's Coachhouse, continuing our cryptozoological pursuit.
Expect boulders as high as houses eroded into weird shapes, caves daubed with prehistoric paintings and spectacular displays of springtime orchids. Times, Sunday Times
He launched himself into a spectacular overhead kick that screamed past Walker into the Walsall net.
Most spectacular in this period, however, were the marriages of European nobles to the heiresses of American millionaires.
Life in a setting of such spectacular natural and man-made beauty, with rooms that come and go as one pleases, seems an impossible fantasy.
The northern side is riven with corries, and in winter the spectacular rock faces can drip with ice.
The crowd roared approval before departing content after another spectacular display of British pomp and pageantry. Times, Sunday Times
Rally cars look spectacular being thrown sideways on muddy forest tracks. The Sun
And the American stopper showed the home fans why with a spectacular double save in the 10th minute. The Sun
We ended a perfect day sipping sangria at a cliffside restaurant, relaxing in the spectacular sunset.
When you tack on inflation, it will be spectacular double-digit growth.
The Golden Circle is located in southwest Iceland and incorporates three main sights: Thingvellir National Park, a site of spectacular natural beauty where Iceland's ancient parliament convened and where the American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet; the high-temperature geothermal area that most people know as Geysir, on account of its best-known hot spring, from which the word "geyser" derives; and the beautiful Gullfoss waterfall. Alda Sigmundsdottir: The Magic of Iceland's Golden Circle
Hundreds of stargazers had travelled as far north as Orkney and Shetland to witness the spectacular celestial event, but most were thwarted by clouds which obscured the rare phenomenon.
The spectacular mistiming of his own 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, doomed the book to short-term infamy and long-term obscurity. Deconstructing Obama
The phantasmagoria or magic lantern show is one of the ‘figures not yet at her command’ in which her preverbal consciousness is assimilated to a spectacular model.
Obviously, a movie that features futuristic technology and mutants with spectacular powers is going to be heavy with special effects.
Judging by the current spectacular planetary activity, it would be insanity to refuse what comes your way. Times, Sunday Times
Some of the more spectacular and scary displays of lightning feature forked lightning bolts.
Who sat anarchically at a dallas real estate for sale, gladdened a authoritarianism, and for the inexhaustibly sphenoid clingfish vespidae to the sum of reinvigorated sphenoid we are spectacularly aesthetic besotted. Rational Review
Alpine sports offer exhilaration and exercise in spectacular mountain settings.
The island is renowned for one of the largest coral lagoons in the world, its beautiful beaches and spectacular ocean habitats with giant clams and tropical fish. Times, Sunday Times
It makes sense only in tiny individual edits - exactly like every other dimwitted action spectacular.
Right at the end the reader becomes aware of elaborate setups put in place hundreds of pages back, in anticipation of the spectacular climax - the unveiling of Penrose's best shot at promoting further research into his twistor theory.
They brought deckchairs, blankets and picnics, making this occasion every bit as special as the spectacular opera concerts held in London's parks and at Castle Howard.
A spectacular Leonid storm in 1833 generated further anecdotes of meteors that swished, whooshed, or, in one case, ‘resembled the noise of a child's popgun.’
He succeeds in becoming John Doe, even in the midst of such spectacularly false and manipulated media proceedings.
We can look forward to a spectacular outburst of storms and vortices when the 'SEB Revival' begins, " says Rogers.
The view however, is spectacular, taking in most of the fifteen islands of the Westmann archipelago.
The setting on the beach was spectacular. Times, Sunday Times
He "was promoted with spectacular rapidity to the post of political editor," the Guardian notes.
This beer mascot is a symbol of jockish virility, but would provide a spectacular coming-out line: New feelings ... brewing ... in ... Who's the Gay Simpson?
Caption: Hiking hidden Wales : Get off the beaten trackthe spectacular Rhinog mountains.
If you knew of a spectacular mountain that was very, very tall, yet climbable. Manifesting Change
The only real disappointment I found was the absence of those spectacular bongos at the beginning of ‘The Hazards of Sitting Beneath Palm Trees’.
It's a rugged county with a spectacular and breathtaking coastline, full of history and legend.
The finale to the show is shaping up to be something spectacular. The Sun
Those looking for unspectacular but solid returns could consider the equity income sector as an option.
The results have been spectacular.
But then the wheels came off the England chariot as they collapsed in spectacular fashion after a catalogue of errors. The Sun
Indeed, citation, in Benjamin's theses, is the very model for revolutionary action, following the lead of the spectacular opening pages of Marx's The Eighteenth History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: De Man with Benjamin
Macerata's duomo, or cathedral, has an unfinished facade that is nothing spectacular, and I prefer this view, the back of the church.
The most spectacular inclusions are bands of native copper that parallel the concentric banding of the agate.
The destruction of her temple, just after the conquest of Mecca in 8 / 630 was a spectacular event.
It is not some video game, with spectacular special effects but ultimately no-one is hurt.
‘It's one of the most spectacular tall geysers in the world,’ he says.
Yet, wedged into a cavernous socket scooped out of the mountain like ice cream and scoured smooth by wind and rain, the setting is spectacular.
It was a spectacular creature, an amazing animal, a monster by any measure.
Martin, who gives up his law practice, proclaims, "Quitting is seriously underrated," and there's the conductor who wears "the expression of one savoring the first bite of a spectacular creme brulee. A tale of operatic scale, with soundtrack by Wagner
Here, we get a slew of metaphors in service of a spectacular act of Cirque du Soleil isometrics, with biology grounding and supporting the higher mental properties, which in turn reach down to elevate the biology. Skyhooks and Tuned Decks and Bloombast (Oh My!)
Telmo Rodriguez is one of the most exciting winemakers in Spain, producing some spectacular wines in a variety of regions.
Bronzed Cowbirds perform spectacular three-part courtship displays incorporating both of their major categories of song.
A climb to the summit of Mount Sinai or Moses Mountain will provide spectacular scenes of the sunrise over Sinai.
The two hour drive from Zurich to Hinterzarten takes you over the Swiss/German border at Koblenz/Waldshut and the scenery is truly spectacular.
The fountain promises to be a spectacular light and water show in a plaza, which is spanned by a catwalk bridge.
That should provide a comfortable berth for viewing some of the most spectacular scenery in the world. The Sun
He not only suffered a spectacular bout of what he called madness but also wrote an extraordinarily vivid account of it in his short novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, which he freely admitted was a thinly disguised account of what had happened to him on a 1954 voyage to Ceylon to restore his health. Henry’s Demons
Eroticism, intrigue and spectacular sex are all here in this pulse pounding production from Private.
There was a long tradition of amazing stonework in ancient Costa Rica, which includes spectacular ‘flying panel’ metates [corn-grinding flats] and other objects carved of basalt.
The crowd roared approval before departing content after another spectacular display of British pomp and pageantry. Times, Sunday Times
The celebrities who sang and danced gave spectacular performances. The Sun
Coupled with a sincere belief in her innate cooking sense, this lack resulted in some spectacularly ghastly meals.
In a series of unspectacular and largely unreported moves the army had slowly advanced towards the interior.
He did not disappoint us - the spectacular display of fire and colour, reflected in the harbour, was absolutely beyond words.
Dazzling costumes, spectacular sets and sensational choreography make this performance by The Rattonians an evening of glamour and glitz.
When Christmas came along these theatres presented spectacular pantomimes with massive stars, whether of the theatre, the films, or in later years, television.
In spring the bluebells are spectacular. Times, Sunday Times
Bill Atkinson's web site is a showcase for some spectacular nature photography.
Some of his business failures were as spectacular as his lavish lifestyle, which was legendary.
Couldn't you place the bends on mundane stretches of the road and leave the spectacular views cleared for observation and enjoyment?
They are the heart of this spectacular garden show in the north west. The Sun
Delighted crowds cheered on a spectacular carnival of colourful floats and bands on Saturday.
The Orchard County had bloomed in spectacular fashion and delivered the finest crop in its history.
The result has been a programme of increasingly spectacular vanishing acts. Times, Sunday Times
After scoring his spectacular debut goal, Pollock ran over towards Middlesbrough's travelling fans and did a somersault.
Plane crashes make the headlines because they are spectacular and invariably involve major loss of life.
Sport is frequently spectacular and often dramatic, but it has more profound possibilities as well. Times, Sunday Times
The new spectacularly rises from the old like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis.
The resulting torrent of charged particles emanating from the sun arrived days later at the outer limits of Earth's atmosphere where it interacted with Earth's magnetic field, causing a geomagnetic storm and creating spectacular auroras. Space weather: Are we ready for a solar strike?
Thunder and lightning create some of the most spectacular natural displays to strike the summer skies.
Two spectacular wins at the start of the season were a foretaste of things to come .

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