spectacle
Example Sentences
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Like “Game of Thrones” and “Walking Dead” earlier in the 2010s, “Stranger Things” pushed the medium more in the direction of spectacle.
Virgo spoke of Higgins rescuing a sport that was "going nowhere", crediting him with reinventing it into a spectacle that was both "watchable and exciting".
From BBC
I suspect this has something to do with the rise of a particular kind of reality television spectacle — one that insisted life’s milestones should not merely be marked, but maximized.
From Salon
Breaks in the action provided time for commercials and a scarcity of games made each a spectacle.
American doubles legend Rajeev Ram, who played under Tiley at Illinois in the early 2000s, described him as "the leader" in making college tennis "more of a spectacle than a sporting event".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
