Spectacle
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But Piotr’s act should not be made a
spectacle
in Poland’s political fight, or wielded haphazardly as a blunt object against the PiS or anyone else.
More ominously, the PO’s leader, Grzegorz Schetyna, remains unpopular at a time when politics is driven largely by
spectacle
and the strength of individual personalities.
At the end of February, for example, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a
spectacle
insisting that no bigger financial firewall was needed to protect other eurozone countries from a disorderly Greek default.
The FARC is unlikely to stage a media
spectacle
at the meetings in Norway and Cuba.
Jens Weidmann provided the novel
spectacle
of a Bundesbank president calling for higher wages.
While this
spectacle
has been playing out, UK living standards have been falling.
Park remains, rightly, a skeptic concerning Kim’s motives; but the
spectacle
of the North’s second-highest-ranking official appearing suddenly at the Asian Games earlier this month created a frisson of excitement that perhaps Kim the Younger may actually want to improve relations.
A recent
spectacle
in Geneva was particularly egregious.
Will he tolerate and endorse his prime minister’s personal aversions, or is he willing to put an end to the infamous
spectacle
of a judicial process that has been manipulated and abused from beginning to end?
First, the next time the eurozone crisis flares up, the US will simply have to bite its tongue; after all, the shutdown
spectacle
revealed pathologies no less severe than those that have characterized the European Union’s economic and political negotiations over the past five years.
As the Khashoggi
spectacle
has unfolded, the two biggest political losers have been MBS and Trump.
Tymoshenko’s Trial and Ukraine’s FutureSTOCKHOLM – There is little doubt that the embarrassing
spectacle
of the trial of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko – and her recent arrest on contempt charges during the proceedings – is causing great damage to her country.
When the same words are uttered by Trump, an object of suspicion for much of the US security apparatus, they become just another part of the narrative
spectacle
by which he channels the loyalties and antipathies of his supporters.
The Fire in the MonasteryPRAGUE – The grim
spectacle
of young monks, nuns, and lay people setting themselves on fire to protest conditions in their homeland is a stark reminder of the gloom and despair that now prevails on the Tibetan Plateau.
Thus, we have the unseemly
spectacle
of the ECB hesitating to cut interest rates for fear that, having exhausted conventional policy, it would have to turn to unconventional measures like quantitative easing, which would antagonize German public opinion even more.
The media trial of my wife’s death, fueled by politically motivated leaks, was drawn out as long as possible and made into a spectacle, with voyeuristic TV discussion shows debating accusations and imputations based on zero evidence or even elementary research.
The second lesson, even more obvious, is that reality cannot be changed with a simple public
spectacle.
The
spectacle
of American politics today would seem to cast doubt on de Tocqueville’s observation.
Worries over migration and the
spectacle
of a divided, dysfunctional Europe have benefited xenophobes and extremists across the continent.
As in the late 19 th century, we have the
spectacle
of the world's superpower treating indifference as a sign of seriousness!
The huge trade deficit provides the
spectacle
of the world's richest country borrowing almost two billion dollars a day from abroad, contributing to the weak dollar and representing a major source of global uncertainty.
Likewise, government is vastly inferior to the World Cup as a sporting spectacle, but much political reporting focuses on who played well and who played badly.
Hence the strange mixture of emotions during the event, leaving the whole
spectacle
to hover somewhat uncertainly between Verdi’s Aida and Wagner’s Gotterdammerung.
Indeed, nuclear energy is a safer proposition now than ever before, but, for many people, the mere
spectacle
of an event like Fukushima – regardless of the outcome – is sufficient to draw the opposite conclusion.
Fillon, once the clear frontrunner, the choice of four million primary voters, has now brought forth the
spectacle
of a party of mutineers trying to nudge him out of the race.
Yet lost behind the
spectacle
of high-profile arrests are a few basic economic facts.
Older French citizens don’t find the public
spectacle
of their leader in love very amusing.
The cameras would roll, Indians would smile, and France would be treated to a Bollywood
spectacle
beyond its wildest dreams.
When ISIS captured territory in 2014 to establish its self-proclaimed caliphate, it wanted to stage a
spectacle
that the world would be unable to ignore.
What has produced the populist backlash is the
spectacle
of political authorities devising technically complicated solutions that lack credibility.
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