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nounpageantry, display

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Pomp suggests such a show of dignity and authority as characterizes a ceremony of state: The coronation was carried out with pomp and splendor. Ostentation refers to vain, ambitious, pretentious, or offensive display: tasteless and vulgar ostentation. Display applies to an intentionally conspicuous show: a great display of wealth. Show often indicates an external appearance that may or may not accord with actual facts: a show of modesty.

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Today, Powell chose a simpler church service in lieu of the pomp and circumstance of lying in state in the Capitol that military leaders are granted, another instance of looking back at where he’d been, not where he’d reached.

COLIN POWELL WAS THE EPITOME OF AMERICA’S PROMISEMARGARET CARLSONNOVEMBER 5, 2021THE DAILY BEAST

The marriage of the former princess Mako Komuro, niece of Japan’s Emperor Naruhito, and her long-time partner, the commoner Kei Komuro, was without the usual pomp and ceremony of royal nuptials.

MAKO KOMURO ISN'T THE FIRST FEMALE SCION OF JAPAN'S ROYAL FAMILY TO HAVE SUFFERED FROM MENTAL STRESSCHAD DE GUZMANNOVEMBER 3, 2021TIME

Finding a way to gather in May for the pomp and circumstance of graduation ceremonies proved yet another challenge.

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY TO HOLD PANDEMIC COMMENCEMENT AT NATIONALS PARKNICK ANDERSONAPRIL 22, 2021WASHINGTON POST

Still, that same equalizing effect also serves to highlight the relative absurdity of building up so much importance, so much pomp and hyperbole, over awards shows in the first place.

GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS CELEBRATE PROGRESSJOHN PAUL KINGAPRIL 13, 2021WASHINGTON BLADE

Typically, Mars landings are cause for great pomp and circumstance at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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You watch enough of these inaugurations and you think there’s nothing left to impress you in the pomp and the circumstance.

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They buried her body in the Recollect convent, with the greatest pomp possible.

THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUS

The date was fixed for the interment with military pomp, and immense crowds came out to witness the imposing procession.

THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMAN

The Cardinals started for the north, 'as the manner of the Romans is,' with great pomp and circumstance.

KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISON

If he has painted vice and shown Satan in all his pomp, it is without the least complacence in the task.