pomp

The world is not cutting emissions fast enough to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and no amount of pomp and pageantry at COP30 will be able to sugarcoat that uncomfortable reality.

Missing were all the pomp and the pageantry.

Ken Belson’s “Every Day Is Sunday” documents how the NFL became an “immensely profitable American religion, complete with acolytes, pomp, and tax breaks.”

For a man who always liked the trappings of royalty, the pomp and the ceremony, the loss of his titles is deeply humiliating.

Even for a professional club it was practicality over pomp.