make a spectacle of

“But James didn’t want to make a spectacle of it. He didn’t want to make it sentimental.”

Greene also landed on Oversight, the committee that has wide latitude to investigate and make a spectacle of the Biden administration, as well as on Homeland Security, which has jurisdiction over happenings at the southern border.

But he “had no great burning desire to be an actor,” he recalled, and instead “had inclinations to show off, make a spectacle of myself” — a tendency toward mischief-making that resulted in his getting kicked out of public schools in Texas and running up a “long list of traffic violations.”

“Kevin tells me that there are people who consider physically clinking glasses during toasts to be rather crude. Of course we think that’s silly, but it’s probably not a good idea to make a spectacle of it.”

“Nope” starts with a cautionary text, drawn from the Old Testament Book of Nahum, which describes God’s threatened punishment on the wicked city of Nineveh: “I will make a spectacle of you.”