"spectacle" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Other pundits, shocked by the unseemly spectacle of an anchorman actually pressing a subject for an answer, called for Rather's head after his controversial exchange with candidate George Bush.
- We must not simply accept the unseemly spectacle of Nevada casino operators raking in millions of dollars a year from what used to be the wholesome competition of 18- and 19-year-olds.
- As Republicans forged ahead at midday on the witness issue, angry Democrats took to the microphones off the Senate floor to play on Republican fears of a protracted and unseemly spectacle.
- Following the voices, the patrol came upon the group and was confronted with an unseemly spectacle: five men surrounding a naked woman, who lay sprawled on the ground and evidently was not objecting.
- In each case, the unseemly spectacle really happened, and the authors do add some nice material on the fate of non-WASP veterans.
- Lee watched the unseemly spectacle for a couple of minutes, then turned to Charles Dimmock.
- Fraser politely ignored the unseemly spectacle.
- Besides challenging the bar, Judge Wachtler avoids the unseemly spectacle of lawyers arguing that mandatory pro bono service is a form of slavery.
- This occurs when Coriolanus, having defected to the Volsci after his banishment, is confronted with the unseemly spectacle of Volumnia on her knees, begging him to spare Rome.
- The unseemly spectacle led Mr. Horn to lament: "The concept of the beauty pageant in some form is ingrained in the American psyche.
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