pageantry
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Mostly they knowingly forfeit the cash to have their 15 minutes in the limelight, sending up the pageantry of British politics.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
Mr. Ali, who directed the flashy but fun “Twelfth Night” that reopened the Delacorte last year, again piles on the pageantry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Xi leading him on the tour was yet another moment for the cameras in a two-day trip heavy on pageantry but scant on details about policy agreed by both sides.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
At one point, I thought it would be cool to do like a pageantry baton spinning dance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
I watched the pageantry from my vantage there.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
Every comer, of every degree, was made welcome, and enjoyed the cheer, the pageantries, and the religious ceremonies of the coronation.
From Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
All the fool's gold of the world, All your dusty pageantries, All your reeking praise of Self, All your wise men's sophistries, All that springs of golden birth, Is not half the jester's worth!
From The Broadway Anthology by Edward L. Bernays
