Example Sentences

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You’ve talked about how video has created additional “performative and spectatorial aspects” to our lives.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2022

It dispensed with start and end times, and with fixed spectatorial viewpoints.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2020

Taseer’s relationship to himself is distinctly spectatorial; he cannot stop looking at himself looking at himself.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2019

“Crisis in Six Scenes” starkly conveys the wistful—yet not regretful—sense that his sixties were secondhand and spectatorial.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2016

Often at war with his world, as the spectatorial character was not, he managed to maintain an intellectual rapport with it and even with those who sought his humiliation.

From A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) by Collins, Anthony