unedifying spectacle

In particular, their annual conferences can be an unedifying spectacle.

The real world is bored with this unedifying spectacle.

The Presidential election of 1988 offered one of the most unedifying spectacles in the American political panorama.

How it must revolt you to confide an intimate and precious secret to a rabble that has just offered such an unedifying spectacle!

One of the more unedifying spectacles that emerged from the community charge was the flaunting display of the' can pay, won't pay'brigade.

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It was an unedifying spectacle for Richmond fans, all of whom idolised him, to see the greatest forward of the era slugging it out in a back pocket.

FPTP is not by any means perfect but it is a lot better than having the unedifying spectacle of horse trading that is going on at the moment.

Critic Bosley Crowther called the movie an "unedifying spectacle," while praising the performance of Lee Marvin as a hood "so icily evil he is funny."

Five years at the Willowbrook had taught Patou to stay away from Trauma and the unedifying spectacle of dirty people coming into the hospital with dirty wounds.

But it is also possible that incumbents of both parties will be punished for the ever more unedifying spectacle of petty partisan jostling for advantage that they offer, however important the underlying issues.

The plenary in Parliament was not able to adopt a resolution, with the unedifying spectacle of groups cancelling each other out and rejecting one another's proposals without being able to adopt anything in common.

Instead, he adds a chapter on recent antics surrounding Cope's skeleton at the University of Pennsylvania, concluding that the "story of Cope's posthumous 'travels' is an unedifying spectacle of behavior."

And again there were different levels of awareness in his mind--one consciously and defensively cynical, and one frightened at the revelation of his unimportance, and the third finding the others an unedifying spectacle.

Eventually, while the dispute continued to rage among Vortigern's counselors, Vivian and Hakon and I were removed from this unedifying spectacle and taken back to the rooms in one of the temporary buildings, where we were kept under guard.

This week was a particularly competitive one when it came to celebrity egomania, seeing as it already played host to Tiger Woods's apology, which was easily the most unedifying spectacle tenuously connected to golf since the -release of Happy Gilmore.

The Irish Times said in an editorial that Smith's successes had kept the lights burning late in Irish homes, but that "now those lights are being switched off to avoid the unedifying spectacle of sports officials descending to the level of a public squabble."

In the words of Martin J. Wiener, "the incongruity of the offense and the lack of any lesser defense pushed the system to a controversial finding of "temporary" insanity to prevent the unedifying spectacle of the hanging of a clergyman of the Church of England.

In the early 660s AD, the Northumbrian court had the unedifying spectacle of King Oswiu and his followers celebrating Easter in the Ionan way, and his Kentish wife Eanflæd and son Alhfrith holding their ceremonies in a different week.

Just as on the recent Take That DAMPE thread, we have the unedifying spectacle of fans rushing to protect their idol against the merest breath of dissent, whilst offering p the impossible hyperbole ("I feel better for having lived my life in his era..." Yegods!)