pageantry

How to use pageantry in a sentence

• It’s easy to overinflate the accomplishments of the present, particularly when the event in question carries the pageantry of the Olympics.

  What Do 60 Percent Of America’s Gold Medals From Tokyo Have In Common? | Josh Planos | August 9, 2021 | FiveThirtyEight

• It was a celebration low on introspection but thick with pageantry.

  At Centenary Celebrations, Xi Jinping Says China’s Success Rests on the Communist Party. But In Reality, It’s All About Him | Charlie Campbell / Shanghai | July 1, 2021 | Time

• He writes that virtual summits remove the pageantry and rituals that set these kinds of events apart from the day-to-day of politics, and makes them feel urgent and important to the participants.

  Boris Johnson’s canceled India trip is a reminder that statecraft is impossible over Zoom | Annabelle Timsit | April 20, 2021 | Quartz

• Producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh have maintained that the ceremony will be shot like a movie, perhaps an effort to mix things up and attract viewers who lost interest in the usual pageantry over the years.

  Why do the Oscars matter? | Sonia Rao | April 16, 2021 | Washington Post

• The McSweenys typically bought a table and invited friends who had never been to an inaugural ball to let them experience the pageantry and patriotism first hand.

  America doesn’t need inaugural balls. But there’s something lost when they disappear. | Roxanne Roberts | January 19, 2021 | Washington Post