At the start of "The Man Who" and at moments throughout, we have no choice but to be gaping spectators at a kind of neurological Ripley's Believe It or Not.

He looked around at the gaping spectators and knew he had no choice but to find Hamilton.

Round they swooped once again over the Canadian Fall, over the waste of waters eastward, until they were distant and small, and then round and back, hurrying, bounding, swooping towards the one gaping spectator.

There was no unyielding blackness anywhere, no Inspector Clayton, no muttering crowd of gaping spectators, no dingy row of shops across the way.

She walked past a knot of gaping spectators over to him.

Brown eyes, magnified behind rimless spectacles, became larger still at sight of the gaping spectators.

Emerson thrust through the ring of gaping spectators.

Above, obscured by glare and reflections, ran the observation decks; Reith was barely able to make out the gaping spectators.

Peacock asked a hoarse question of a gaping spectator.

The wheeled leviathan pulled away from the curb, leaving the gaping spectators on the sidewalk.