pageantry
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“The elaborate pageantry matters precisely because there is still relatively little substantive progress to showcase,” Singleton said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Chinese leader Xi Jinping wanted his upcoming trip to the U.S. to be categorized as a “state visit,” the highest tier of diplomatic pageantry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Xi's trip to Washington, which ends on Friday, will have plenty of pomp and pageantry, and includes lavish dinners, private tours and performances.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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
They use his great-grandmother’s silverware, her lead-crystal goblets, and her china, with its pageantry of gold leaves.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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 second talked in tapestries, by fantasy beguiled; As frail as bubbles, hard as gems, his pageantries he piled; "This Lord of Language, who is he?"
From Ballads of a Bohemian by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
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
Thursday was marked by divers pageantries, prepared by order of the Lord Chamberlain, by the devisor.
From Rambles in an Old City comprising antiquarian, historical, biographical and political associations by S. S. Madders
