"spectacle" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "This would be a tragic spectacle for everyone," Mr. Kunstler said during a break in the proceedings.
- It is a painful and tragic spectacle that rises before me: I have drawn back the curtain from the rottenness of man.
- Everything was calm in the city, despite the tragic spectacle of hundreds of thousands of refugees.
- Onlookers admitted to me that they had come simply to see the tragic spectacle of the naked bodies - some of which were badly burned.
- It is sometimes called a tragic spectacle, because in many forms of the sport the bull is invariably killed, and the bullfighter is always at risk of death.
- There are certainly more tragic spectacles in this city than the well-to-do running to get their garbage to the curb on time, but there may be few as emblematic.
- His trembling hands and numbed face make for a tragic spectacle equal to Lear on the moor or Oedipus staring blindly from his throne.
- Ciocan interprets the work's overall perspective as: "Life is a spectacle both tragic and comical [...], into which 'things great and small' are undiscernably mixed together."
- But the taste for tragic spectacle had not vanished from Ireland, Doheny thought.
- A theatrically tragic spectacle, all told.
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