On May 14, 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama commented, "I did not appreciate what I considered to be a ridiculous spectacle.

Morrissey himself, attired in a rippled white shirt and trilby hat, acted out the totally ridiculous spectacle which, somehow, absurdly fitted into the field of pop music.

We haven't had the ridiculous spectacle of our leader's press officer interrupting a press conference to contradict him.

The All Dog A LION seeing a Poodle fell into laughter at the ridiculous spectacle.

Then another did, and another, and soon the whole field roared in hilarity at the ridiculous spectacle of the dreaded Archbishop, balked by a boy.

An open-mouthed, painted shriek gives us "the ridiculous spectacle of a permanent exertion without effect."

Who can resist the ridiculous spectacle of a bearded, middle-aged salesman in drag waving his chubby arms and clomping around like the world's clumsiest ballerina?

To an unsympathetic eye, we must have made a ridiculous spectacle sitting on the nicely polished wood floor of a spacious living room in Vineyard Haven: two-dozen middle-aged women playing like kids.

They carefully inched their way round, anti- clockwise, desperately trying to keep together, now both laughing at the ridiculous spectacle they must have made.

Ah, what a ridiculous spectacle is Man!