Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor bread and circuses
1. The Romans called it "bread and circuses". Powerful senators staged mass slaughter as entertainment to pacify the baying mob.
2. Advertisement Channel 2 lives among its people, understands them, and hastened to prepare bread and circuses for them.
3. The bread–and–circuses approach to election day was a Soviet tradition: It included selling difficult–to–find food items –– typically salami, cheese and red caviar –– at cut–rate prices.
4. Surprise, because up until now, I was convinced that the oligarch‘s main attraction was to lower–income, uneducated members of the public; those more susceptible to the populist mix of bread and circuses that the mysterious billionaire has been offering over the last couple of years.
5. They are still in place – but the vocabulary that might justify their authority is no longer easily available or credible, which is why they often choose to play the easy British game of being against "elitism". The bread and circuses of entertainment culture in the television studio and on the football pitch is a useful cultural resource in this regard.