Spectacle
Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant; a gazingstock.
A spy-glass; a looking-glass.
An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.
Fig.: An aid to the intellectual sight.
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Spectacle Quotations
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
James Madison
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
T. S. Eliot
If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
George Will
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Victor Hugo
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
George Santayana
I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.
Sharon Stone
But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Spectacle Translations
spectacle in Dutch is spektakel, kijkspel, schouwspel
spectacle in German is Schauspiels, Schauspiel, Schauspiel
spectacle in Latin is spectaculum
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