Several critics complained after the premiere that the main character emerges as something of a cipher, a blank spot at the heart of a brilliant spectacle.

Under Hamblin, American working-class theatre, emphasising brilliant spectacle and plot-based narrative, emerged as a form in its own right.

All the local shops and clubs held a street market and fair - a brilliant spectacle.

A masked ball, you know, is a beautiful sight; but so brilliant a spectacle of the kind I never saw before.

What followed was a brilliant spectacle.

As in a magic trick, he wows the audience, using bold claims and exquisite storytelling, but we see no arguments that would detract from his brilliant spectacle.

And so the grand-stands make a brilliant and wonderful spectacle, a delirium of color, a vision of beauty.

What a brilliant spectacle!

The multi-colored jerseys of the rowers, male and female, added to the brilliant spectacle.

It was a brilliant spectacle, and was hailed with acclamations all along the line, as it took its stately way through the packed multitudes of citizens.