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adjective

Spectacular adj.

Of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show. "Spectacular sports."

Adapted to excite wonder and admiration by a display of pomp or of scenic effects; as, a spectacular celebration of some event; a spectacular play.

Pertaining to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.

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"Spectacular" Quotes from Famous Books

... the picturesque simplicity of rural and river scenery, and promoting a regard for dignity and propriety of aspect in towns—-with especial reference to the abuses of spectacular advertising. ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

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... deal to go through with that day. She must have rehearsed well, or she would have been confused by the multiform ceremonials of that grand spectacular performance. The scene, as she entered Westminster Abbey, might well have startled her out of her serene calm, but it didn't. On each side of the nave, reaching from the western door to the organ screen, were the galleries, ...

— Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood • Grace Greenwood

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... go up that way, because it's expelled violently from the smoke-stacks of steamers. And those steamers are ours, George, our warships. Our navy in this war hasn't much chance to do the spectacular, but we can never give ...

— The Rock of Chickamauga • Joseph A. Altsheler

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... yesterday's bread. The why so and why not of this incident are my real subject. For Mr. Howells is merely a particularly conspicuous instance of the kind of prosperity I have in mind. We are all too much dazzled by the rare great fortunes. The newly rich have spectacular ways with them. By dint of frequently passing us in notorious circumstances, they give the impression of a throng. They are much in the papers, their steam yachts loom large on the waters, they divorce quickly ...

— The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 • Various

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... city caught the contagious air of entre—the working girls, poor ugly souls, wrapping soap in the factories and showing finery in the big stores, dreamed that perhaps in the spectacular excitement of this winter they might obtain for themselves the coveted male—as in a muddled carnival crowd an inefficient pickpocket may consider his chances increased. And the chimneys commenced to smoke and the subway's foulness was ...

— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald

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