pageantry
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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 | FiveThirtyEightIt 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 | TimeHe 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 | QuartzProducers 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.
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
Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.
Why Was Bess Myerson the First and Last Jewish Miss America? | Emily Shire | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTPassersby passed by, displaying the full pageantry of West Village life.
Well, La Ti Da: Stephin Merritt’s Winning Little Words of Scrabble | David Bukszpan | October 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA papal visit, by definition, is freighted with emotion and pageantry.
‘Viva Papa Francisco!’ Brazil Celebrates Pope’s Trip | Mac Margolis | July 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTCannons were fired, brass bands played, and American-inspired pomp and pageantry abounded.
Liberia Rethinks Its Past in Wake of Charles Taylor War-Crimes Verdict | Emily Schmall, Clair MacDougall | April 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut what gets lost among all the bitter pageantry is the little matter of delegates.
A Florida Win Will Make Headlines, But What About the Delegates? | Matthew DeLuca | January 27, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe poor like the Queen personally, and like to gaze at royal pageantry; but they are not fanatically loyal.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyThe ceremony was shorn of the grotesque pageantry of chivalric times, and was confined to the interior of the abbey.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanIts grand opening was a riot of splendid colorings and beauty, never surpassed in all pageantry.
David Lannarck, Midget | George S. HarneyMan seeks to adorn death; the pageantry of the funeral, the attractiveness of the cemetery, all show this.
Separation and Service | James Hudson TaylorIt is a religion of love, practical, undemonstrative, knowing nothing of pageantry and spectacle.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce | Ambrose Bierce
British Dictionary definitions for pageantry
/ (ˈpædʒəntrɪ) /
spectacular display or ceremony
archaic pageants collectively
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