10 QUOTES WITH «SPECTACLES»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
spectacles.
A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.
Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.
I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.
I don't remember 'Doctor Who' not being part of my life, and it became a part of growing up, along with The Beatles, National Health spectacles, and fog. And it runs deep. It's in my DNA.
Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPECTACLES»
Discover the use of
spectacles in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
spectacles and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
A nearsighted little girl talks about and shows some of the unusual things she saw before being fitted with glasses.
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Freakery: Cultural
Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body
The book's essays fall into four main categories: historical explorations of American freak shows in the era of P.T. Barnum; the articulation of the freak in literary and textual discourses; contemporary relocations of freak shows; and ...
Rosemarie Garland Thomson, 1996
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Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome
Rome killed many thousands of people & animals in elaborate public spectacles. This provocative book asks not only who the victims were, and why they were killed in such a brutal fashion, but what happened to their bodies.
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Disappearing Acts:
Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in ...
In Disappearing Acts, Diana Taylor looks at how national identity is shaped, gendered, and contested through spectacle and spectatorship.
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Racial
Spectacles: Explorations in Media, Race, and Justice
This book will prove to be important not only for courses on race and media, but also for any reader interested in issues of the media's role in social justice.
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Spectacles, Lorgnettes and Monocles
Spectacles have been used since the thirteenth century, at first by the few people who needed to read, such as churchmen and clerks. This book traces the development and use of eyeglasses from the fourteenth century onwards.
Afterwards, they preferred to disguise this ungodly usage by making it a pleasure.
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Epics,
Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History
In Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History authors Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale discuss the characteristics, history, and modes of distribution and exhibition that unite big-budget pictures, from their beginnings in the ...
Sheldon Hall, Stephen Neale, 2010
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Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria ...
This book examines the philosophic appropriation and transformation of theoria, and analyses the competing conceptions of theoretical wisdom in fourth-century philosophy.
Andrea Wilson Nightingale, 2004
When Alison puts on Great Grandmother's glasses, they become magical and enable her to understand some of her great grandmother's frustrations and unfulfilled aspirations.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPECTACLES»
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spectacles is used in the context of the following news items.
Nasa's space missions give a vision of spectacles that adjust with …
You may never have to buy another pair of glasses. Adjustable prescription spectacles commissioned by Nasa for its astronauts could one day become ... «The Times, Jun 15»
Chinese Military Warns Soldiers Against Use of Apple Watch
China has warned soldiers against using smartwatches, high-tech spectacles and other Internet-connected wearable gadgets, saying they could "endanger ... «Yahoo Tech, May 15»
'We had eye tests before going elsewhere to buy glasses': How to …
IT company owner Malcolm says: 'There is something about the hard-sell at opticians I do not like – having a huge bank of spectacles with a sales assistant ... «This is Money, Apr 15»
Australia to fund free spectacles for Hudhud victims
Australian Consulate General in Chennai will provide replacement glasses for members of socio-economically disadvantaged communities who lost their ... «The Hindu, Jan 15»
5 Changes To Quartier Des Spectacles That Will Make Montreal …
No matter the season, Quartier des Spectacles is bustling with activity. Festivals and shows dominate the area in the best way possible, offering Montrealers a ... «MTL Blog, Jan 15»
Quartier des Spectacles spurring significant economic spinoffs: study
January 27, 2015 -- Overhead view of the area around the Quartier des Spectacles in Montreal Tuesday January 27, 2015. Place des Festivales runs diagonally ... «Montreal Gazette, Jan 15»
Goldman Sachs invests in German online spectacles retailer
FRANKFURT Goldman Sachs' (GS.N) private equity arm is taking a roughly 20 percent stake in Mister Spex, Germany's leading online spectacles retailer said ... «Reuters, Jan 15»
Montreal's Quartier Des Spectacles Is Getting A Huge Winter Skating …
Coming straight from the mouth of mayor Denis Coderre is the newly announced plan to install a gigantic outdoor ice skating rink in Quartier des Spectacles. «MTL Blog, Oct 14»
National Film Board to Move into Montreal's Quartier des Spectacles
The headquarters of the National Film Board (NFB) of Canada will be housed in a brand new building to be constructed in Montréal's Quartier des spectacles by ... «Marketwired, Sep 14»
Two festivals cohabiting at Quartier des spectacles Thursday evening
So film and fashion may clash Thursday evening as their respective festivals “cohabit” at the Quartier des spectacles for the first time. The Festival mode ... «Montreal Gazette, Aug 14»
