spectacles
Example Sentences
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And Alexandre’s movie theater, with its bloody spectacles, gets replaced by something very different: a blood bank, a monument to recovery.
Fascist leaders need gargantuan physical symbols of their greatness, and both the architecture and the spectacles inevitably trend toward kitsch.
From Salon
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.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
