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With a rubber hand and a silver tongue, he turns his sales into crowded spectacles.

James Madison memorably concluded, in Federalist No. 10, that democracies “have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention.”

They found a pair of her father’s vintage spectacles and fragments of his sculptures, assembled from knickknacks and everyday objects.

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The state visit and its various spectacles largely took place behind the walls of Windsor Castle.

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There's a crammed schedule squeezed into a day and a half, most of it dedicated to royal spectacles.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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