Voorbeelden van spectacle

• Their metre is a sort of rearguard strategy of seeing the modern world through spectacles which that world has actually broken.

• Continual engagement, rather than occasional confrontation, with civic spectacles provided the dukes with opportunities for the theatrical exercise of power.

• However, there is an agonizing choice to make between at least two pairs of spectacles we might wear to take this critical look.

• A welder with a serious expression and dark spectacles sits opposite me, working intently.

• European travellers appear to have supplied the script for spectacles they did not fully understand.

• Under these conditions the subject rapidly obtains a bistable form of adaptation, adapted to both wearing and not wearing the spectacles.

• Lawyers and courts provided additional public space in which abduction spectacles could be produced.

• The spectacles, like the baby, just won't stay still.

• There were many spectacles during the nineteenth century, feeding a public appetite for the latest thrilling news, whether polar or not.

• Folk dances were the main spectacles that smaller towns could offer to royal visitors, and these were integrated into more elaborate civic pageantry as well.

• A metal bolt was fixed to the skull just above the beak to allow attachment of spectacles with filter glasses needed for stereoscopic stimulation.

• As such, the spatializing and performative rhetorical acts such as state ceremonies, urban spectacles, sacrificial rituals and royal hunts must be included in this definition.

• Four firms were studied: an electroplating plant; a rubber-extruding factory; a firm making optical lenses for spectacles; and a machine-tool maker.

• The ending of the monopoly of solicitors over house sales conveyancing and of opticians over the sale of spectacles has already been noted.

• Such spectacles were not likely to encourage an educated view of the treasures displayed.