Excellent album, tuneful throughout, with just enough quasi-psychedelic circuslike touches to not be annoying. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It took 34 years for Stephen Schwartz's once-ubiquitous rock musical, in which the gospel according to St. Matthew is enacted as a circuslike vaudeville turn, to make it back to Broadway, and by all rights the results should have been dated beyond hope of resuscitation. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)
At times, all the crazy characters at Muscle Beach gave it a circuslike atmosphere. ❋ Misty May-Treanor With Jill Lieber Steeg (2010)
The familiar sound of the circuslike keyboard started and Lynette smiled. ❋ Kathy Charles (2010)
In their exploration of Islam, the recent terrorism trials have had a similar, if perhaps less circuslike, feel. ❋ Unknown (2006)
With a new book by Hugh Wheeler, added lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and arena-style staging by Hal Prince, "Candide" finally gained popular success-though lost in the circuslike goings-on were the glitter of the music and almost any shred of seriousness. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Rehearsed or not, the line clearly helped Huckabee gain some priceless earned media in the postdebate coverage — no easy task in a crowd of 10 GOP presidential hopefuls in what has been the largely circuslike atmosphere of the debates. ❋ Unknown (2007)
One Iraqi power-generation official, Ihsan Obeidi, seemed appreciative -- if a bit overwhelmed -- by the circuslike environment that eclipsed the plant's towering smokestacks and power transformers. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The words crashed into one another, rocketing into one big howl of pleading, demanding, a speeding blur of raging language blending in with the chaos of commands and shouts and orders and circuslike commotion coming from the shooters who stood in the darkness. ❋ Helena María Viramontes (2007)
The conditions for his interview were horrible, and it was conducted in a circuslike atmosphere. ❋ Robert D. Keppel (2005)
The great market town of Triven Fralli in Benalia had always seemed to Gerrard a circuslike experience. ❋ Lebaron, Francis (1999)
I think we started out with ` Pageant, 'and then we went to ` Seduction,' and then, because it describes the circuslike atmosphere and the theatrical atmosphere of the campaign, we ended up with "Show Time." ❋ Unknown (1998)
Abadallah Shanin Khaldi issued curious smothered sounds, together with an unmistakable, pungent, circuslike odor. ❋ Arthur Cheney Train (1910)
I was leaning over the second barrier, waiting for the meager and circuslike procession to enter with the keys of the bull pen, when my attention was attracted to a movement in the reserved gallery. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
"It covers the whole age spectrum and it has a circuslike feel." ❋ By AILEEN JACOBSON (2011)
