sad spectacle
Example Sentences
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Now many families are unsure whether they will spend the holiday gathered around a majestic tower of greenery — or something more reminiscent of Charlie Brown’s sad spectacle.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 26, 2021
The better characterization of this whole sad spectacle is that in the world’s saddest game of constitutional chicken, nearly every single important player failed utterly to show up.
From Slate • Jan. 31, 2020
For the concert industry, the disastrous failure of the Fyre Festival in the Bahamas was an outlier — a sad spectacle, but an isolated one.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2017
They believe — you have to believe — that being involved in a sad spectacle on national television is better than not being on national television at all.
From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2015
She was in the crowd that was witnessing the sad spectacle of the man who had been turned into a snake for having disobeyed his parents.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
