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
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
The answers, though, seem largely incidental beside the pageantry of haute cuisine and burbling table talk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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
Wearing simple street clothes amid the pageantry made her feel even more the outsider—and the apprentice armband made it worse.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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
And Djinnee gasps add to the sight That dragon-worms bred in this surge, Build temples for queen Sorrow's home; And pageantries of Typhon's bloom— Immarcescible sklayres of night!
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by Jean de Esque
Meis.I'd rather10 Ride a day's hunting on an outworn jade, Than follow in the train of a great man, In these dull pageantries.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
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
