Experience: I’ve slept with 3,000 men (63 year old grandma)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

139. If making a *spectacle* of herself is making her happy, who am I to judge?

Spectacle
noun
1.
anything presented to the sight or view, especially something of a striking or impressive kind:
The stars make a fine spectacle tonight.
2.
a public show or display, especially on a large scale:
The coronation was a lavish spectacle.

Synonyms
1. marvel, wonder, sight, show

Rent something with four-wheel-drive, and experience the spectacle on a new, free self-guided tour.
In a month-long spectacle of feasting and negotiating on a scale that would never be repeated, they both got their wish.
So it's no surprise that the largest televised spectacle in the world has a history of using jetpacks.

British Dictionary definitions for spectacle
spectacle
/ˈspɛktəkəl/
noun
1.
a public display or performance, esp a showy or ceremonial one
2.
a thing or person seen, esp an unusual or ridiculous one: he makes a spectacle of himself
3.
a strange or interesting object or phenomenon

Word Origin
C14: via Old French from Latin spectaculum a show, from spectāre to watch, from specere to look at

mid-14c., "specially prepared or arranged display," from Old French spectacle, from Latin spectaculum "a show, spectacle," from spectare "to view, watch," frequentative form of specere "to look at," from PIE *spek- "to observe" (see scope (n.1)).

Quotes with spectacle
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
Walter Bagehot

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to...
Thomas De Quincey

Povert ful ofte, whan a man is lowe, Maketh his God and eek himself to knowe. Povert a spectacle is,...
Geoffrey Chaucer