Seshu comes up with increasingly outlandish and comic schemes that fail spectacularly. Writers agree that the episode was risky and could have failed spectacularly. In the end, it all collapses into a spectacularly gorgeous heap. The robbery goes spectacularly wrong when Peru unnecessarily shoots the two clerks. In this they were spectacularly successful. That evening Themistocles attempted what appears to have been a spectacularly successful use of disinformation. The Roman fleet is spectacularly destroyed. Ann is then taken to her bedroom which is spectacularly decorated. Jonathan Last called it "one of the most spectacularly foolish books ever published". He is obese, obnoxious, antisemitic, racist and spectacularly sociopathic in his attitude. I also knew I would fail spectacularly, at least at first. Humboldt and Bonpland eventually found their way to Madrid, where their luck changed spectacularly. The larger and more spectacularly colored jewel beetles are highly prized by insect collectors. This genus includes some of the most spectacularly colored birds of the world. Little of Moray's spectacularly successful campaign is recorded.