amphitheatrical
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Under his guidance, Pete Dye produced the Stadium Course, with enormous natural grass spectator mounds that could accommodate thousands in amphitheatrical settings around the closing holes of each nine.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 13, 2010
The congressmen met for a first get-together session in Harvard's Memorial Hall's fusty, amphitheatrical Sanders Theatre, with twilight filtering on them through stained glass.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Publicity," primal requisite of all theatrical and amphitheatrical enterprise thus provided, subsequent arrangements proceeded with a fury of energy which transformed the empty hayloft.
From Penrod by Tarkington, Booth
Saint Lucia is only a monstrous silhouette; all its billowing hills, its volcanic bays, its amphitheatrical valleys, turn black as ebony.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
To give an idea only of the amphitheatrical entertainments, so repugnant to humanity, would make the most obdurate heart feel with keen sensibility.
From Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872 by Poole, William Frederick
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