Definition of Spectacle

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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

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

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
George Santayana

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
George Will

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
Walter Bagehot

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

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.
Roman Polanski

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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