bread and circuses
Example Sentences
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It is the same movie, slightly tweaked and constantly referencing and reminding you of the original, delivering what you already loved about “Gladiator”: strength and honor, bread and circuses, blood and guts.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2024
We demand, if not bread and circuses, then true American camp—a racoon-and-toy-pony show, a hunt for treasure, and White House officials dragged up to entertain our children.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2023
We might ask our governments to aim for more than mere bread and circuses, though.
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2022
“Give them food and cake and they won’t revolt?” she said, paraphrasing the ancient saying about bread and circuses.
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2022
Evidently, the lower caste of the Proletarian Paradise was well on the way to its own version of bread and circuses.
From Frigid Fracas by Reynolds, Mack
