Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;

The great spectacle was a source of rancor, and Son et Lumiere, which the French were trying to promote with the Athenians, was the reason.

The spectacle progressed towards a denouement which was obviously still remote ; ;

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

This practical development, mastery, and experimentation with lenses led directly to the invention of the compound optical microscope around 1595, and the refracting telescope in 1608, both of which appeared in the spectacle making centres in the Netherlands.

According to Barthes the function of a wrestler is not to win: it is to go exactly through the motions which are expected of him and to give the audience a theatrical spectacle.

Edmond Ludlow also provided an account of the execution at Charing Cross, " the sentence which had been pronounced in consequence of the verdict was executed upon Major-General Harrison at the place where Charing Cross formerly stood, that the King might have the pleasure of the spectacle, and inure himself to blood.

Their theoretical work peaked with the highly influential book The Society of the Spectacle in which Guy Debord argued that the spectacle is a fake reality which masks capitalist degradation of human life.

In its limited sense, spectacle means the mass media, which are " its most glaring superficial manifestation.

The anamorphosis abscondita creates visual effects which are not encountered in nature, making the spectacle of gardens designed in this way extremely unusual to the viewer ( who experiences a tension between the natural perspective cues in his peripheral vision and the forced perspective of the formal garden ).

Of Sargent's early work, Henry James wrote that the artist offered " the slightly ' uncanny ' spectacle of a talent which on the very threshold of its career has nothing more to learn.

These trials were highly publicized and extensively covered by the outside world, which was mesmerized by the spectacle of Lenin's closest associates confessing to most outrageous crimes and begging for death sentences.

However Bono could not attend, which led to the spectacle of Paul Weller miming to Bono's line.

Every August 16, the ancient city of Kyoto holds the Gozan no Okuribi, a Buddhist, bonfire based spectacle, which marks the end of the * O-Bon season.

They gather to form a large spectacle and disturbance which spreads instant chaos and fear amongst the wizarding community.

In Ancient Rome the circus was the only public spectacle at which men and women were not separated.

* Raoul Grimoin-Sanson also creates a sensation at the 1900 World Fair with his multi-projector Cinéorama spectacle, which uses ten 70 mm projectors to create a simulated 360-degree balloon ride over Paris.

Both the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Yarra River were centrepieces for the ceremony, which included many fireworks, and other spectacle.

" And then ," writes Dr Theal, " was seen forced the strange spectacle of an English commissioner addressing men who wished to be free of British control as the friendly and well-disposed inhabitants, while for those who desired to remain British subjects and who claimed that protection to which they believed themselves entitled he had no sympathising word.

In this enclosure or Parke are goodly meadows, springs, rivers, red and fallow Deere, Fawnes carrying thither for the Hawkes ( of whom are three mewed above two hundred Gerfalcons which he goeth once a week to see ) and he often useth one Leopard or more, sitting on Horses, which he setteth upon the Stagges and Deere, and having taken the beast, giveth it to the Gerfalcons, and in beholding this spectacle he taketh wonderful delight.

Total Solar Eclipse Grid ( 1998 ), a set of which was included in his Turner Prize installation and is now in the permanent collection of the Tate, documents the spectacle of a solar eclipse.

::"... what fascinates us is the spectacle of a man freely choosing, from the highest motives a series of actions which lead to his own ruin.

He was also made Ambassador to Vienna, a post he held for nine years, and was at the Congress of Vienna with his half brother Lord Castlereagh as one of the British plenipotentiaries, where, according to the renowned historian Adam Zamoyski in his book " Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna ", he made a spectacle of himself with his loutish behaviour, being apparently rather often inebriated, frequenting prostitutes quite openly, touching up young women in public, and once even starting a fist fight in the middle of the street with a Viennese coach driver ( from whom he had to be rescued by the Austrian constabulary ).

At Christmas, 1781, Loutherbourg mounted a spectacle at a party in the Egyptian Hall at Fonthill for William Beckford, promising ( according to Beckford ) to " present a mysterious something that the eye has not seen or heart of man conceived ".

" Debord said that the society of the spectacle came to existence in the late 1920s.

Guy Debord proposed the economic spectacle theory of society, which parallels commodity fetishism, by objectifying people.

In The Society of the Spectacle ( 1967 ), Guy Debord presented the theory of " du spectacle " — the systematic conflation of advanced capitalism, the mass communications media, and a government amenable to exploiting those factors.

With the term spectacle, Debord defines the system that is a confluence of advanced capitalism, the mass media, and the types of governments who favor those phenomena: " the spectacle, taken in the limited sense of ' mass media ' which are its most glaring superficial manifestation ".

In his followup book, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, Debord referred to the spectacle as coming to existence in the late 1920s.

" The spectacle is not a collection of images ," Debord writes, " rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images.

Debord analyzes the use of knowledge to assuage reality: the spectacle obfuscates the past, imploding it with the future into an undifferentiated mass, a type of never-ending present ; in this way the spectacle prevents individuals from realizing that the society of spectacle is only a moment in history, one that can be overturned through revolution.

Debord encouraged the use of détournement, " which involves using spectacular images and language to disrupt the flow of the spectacle.

Thus, Debord ’ s fourth thesis is: " The spectacle is not a collection of images ; rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images.

It is a great spectacle.

it is a spectacle absolutely painful, an epiphany of the suffering flesh unredeemed by spirit, untouched by any spirit other than abasement and humiliation.

The study of odd-lot indices is somehow akin to the spectacle of a man trying to outfox his own shadow, what with all observers trying to get on the side of the `` few '' at the same time.

Jack Frost is not really responsible for this great seasonal spectacle ; ;

In the letter, Bardot describes the activity as a " macabre spectacle " that " is a shame for Denmark and the Faroe Islands ...

In Germany, Beatty had ruined his reputation when he told the crews of his ships that were receiving the German High Seas Fleet for its internment at Scapa Flow, " Don't forget that the enemy is a despicable beast ," and arranged the surrender of the German Fleet as a grand spectacle of humiliation.

The visual spectacle is given more attention than the dialogue and underlying story, though the main points of the plot are covered.

Learned and ignorant alike were astonished at the spectacle ... It is a real and palpable vision of the New World.

Whereas in Circus, the musical numbers involved dancing and spectacle, the only type of choreography in Bright Path is the movement of factory machines.

The ceremony is more than just tourist spectacle, as this small military force is the front line of defence of the Monegasque royal family.

The word opera means " work " in Italian ( it is the plural of Latin opus meaning " work " or " labour ") suggesting that it combines the arts of solo and choral singing, declamation, acting and dancing in a staged spectacle.

Professional wrestling ( often shortened pro wrestling, or simply wrestling ) is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.

The Rumble match is itself a spectacle in that it is a once-yearly event with multiple participants, including individuals who might not interact otherwise.

Janet Maslin of The New York Times said: " Generations is predictably flabby and impenetrable in places, but it has enough pomp, spectacle and high-tech small talk to keep the franchise afloat.

Hadingus realizes that he is flying through the air: " and he saw that before the steps of the horse lay the sea ; but was told not to steal a glimpse of the forbidden thing, and therefore turned his amazed eyes from the dread spectacle of the roads that he journeyed.

Wayne Rebhorn, a Castiglione scholar, states that the courtier ’ s speech and behavior in general is “ designed to make people marvel at him, to transform himself into a beautiful spectacle for others to contemplate.