pageantry

One sentence, easy to lose amid the pageantry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

“The elaborate pageantry matters precisely because there is still relatively little substantive progress to showcase,” Singleton said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The pandas, the pageantry and the warm words may help smooth this relationship.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Both Xi and President Trump are prioritizing the summit’s optics and pageantry over resolving major policy disputes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

The ballet was as beautiful and otherworldly as any recounting of that story ever is, with its prince in a moonlit forest and its swirling pageantry of sweets.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

An arrival ceremony on the South Lawn ranks among the most regal of pageantries that Washington has to offer, reserved usually for the most important of visitors and even then for special occasions.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2015

He has conceived scintillating decors for Ziegfeld pageantries.

From Time Magazine Archive

The vain pomp and pageantries of courts and the splendour of fortune have ever been an ignis fatuus to seduce the people to their ruin.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton

But yet her look turned not aside   From the black deep where dreams abide,     Where worlds and pageantries lay dead   Beneath that viewless tide.

From The Common Law by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Sir Henry Lee, however, appears to have devoted his life to these chivalrous pageantries rather from a quixotical imagination than with any serious views of ambition or interest.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin