unedifying spectacle

The Presidential election of 1988 offered one of the most unedifying spectacles in the American political panorama.

But it is also possible that incumbents of both parties will be punished for the ever more unedifying spectacle of petty partisan jostling for advantage that they offer, however important the underlying issues.

FPTP is not by any means perfect but it is a lot better than having the unedifying spectacle of horse trading that is going on at the moment.

Five years at the Willowbrook had taught Patou to stay away from Trauma and the unedifying spectacle of dirty people coming into the hospital with dirty wounds.

In particular, their annual conferences can be an unedifying spectacle.

Critic Bosley Crowther called the movie an "unedifying spectacle," while praising the performance of Lee Marvin as a hood "so icily evil he is funny."

How it must revolt you to confide an intimate and precious secret to a rabble that has just offered such an unedifying spectacle!

One of the more unedifying spectacles that emerged from the community charge was the flaunting display of the' can pay, won't pay'brigade.

It was an unedifying spectacle for Richmond fans, all of whom idolised him, to see the greatest forward of the era slugging it out in a back pocket.

The real world is bored with this unedifying spectacle.