sad spectacle

In a statement sent out by White House spokeswoman Sharon Yang titled “Womp Womp,” she called the hearing Thursday a “sad spectacle” and a “stunt.”

Our Times music reporters discuss the guilty verdict from today’s Tory Lanez trial and the sad spectacle of misogyny against Black women that surrounded it.

The Tribune notes the sight of his mutilated body "sent a thrill of horror to every white person present, but the few blacks who were waiting … paid but little attention to the sad spectacle, such terrible scenes begin painfully familiar to them all".

As a consequence, the court’s conservative justices keep performing the sad spectacle of defending structural, generational, pervasive racism in Alabama.

The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial was, from gavel to gavel, a singularly baffling, unedifying and sad spectacle.