Sentences with phrase «national spectacle»

Her win, and the media attention focused upon her, was the watershed moment for the award: it transformed the annual event from polite art world contest into colourful national spectacle, ushering in the era when the prize would be won by a succession of celebrated (to some, notorious) British artists born in the 1960s — among them Damien Hirst, Douglas Gordon, Chris Ofili and Gillian Wearing.

Washington Republicans, who are more focused than their local counterparts on how the party is perceived nationally, worry that Donovan's candidacy would create a national spectacle and turn the election into a referendum on his handling of the racially fraught case.

Washington Republicans worry that Daniel Donovan's candidacy would create a national spectacle.

The TU thinks GOP Rep. Pete King is «on the verge of making a national spectacle of himself» and suggests he drop the idea of holding hearing on the radicalization Muslim culture in America.

According to Politico, the concern was that «Donovan's candidacy would create a national spectacle and turn the election into a referendum on his handling of the racially fraught case.»

New York, NY — Reshma Saujani, founder of the national nonprofit Girls Who Code and a Democratic candidate for New York City Public Advocate, today launched Up to Us, a new campaign to empower women voters to shift the political climate and conversation away from the sex scandals that have turned New York City's summer campaign season into a national spectacle.

She became a national spectacle once before and because of this film, she will now become a global one.

Adapting to the times is a vital process for the short and long term survival of the sport as a national spectacle.

The Miami Herald called the judge «something of a national spectacle.»