How To Use Pageantry In A Sentence
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Thousands of visitors are set to descend on York when the five-day festival of horse racing and pageantry comes to the city in June next year.
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The year is filled with important religious events, and all localities are identified with patron saints who are celebrated, somewhat competitively, with fireworks and festa pageantry, including processions.
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The natives so embraced the pageantry and the promise of the new faith; and centuries later, testament to that Christian hegemony is the ubiquity of an iconolatry, none as dispersed into the bowels of urban and rural religious life as the icon of the Santo Nino.
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By the 19th century the play had been transformed into a spectacle of patriotic pageantry celebrating imperial Britain and the glory of its military.
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Up to 200 men, women and children will be dressed in costume for this piece of street-theatre and pageantry.
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The crowd roared approval before departing content after another spectacular display of British pomp and pageantry.
Times, Sunday Times
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The crowd roared approval before departing content after another spectacular display of British pomp and pageantry.
Times, Sunday Times
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She loved the pageantry and tradition of the Royal Family.
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We enjoy the pomp and the pageantry around our monarchy.
The Sun
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Along with their other accessories, the warriors' elaborate dress suggests that they brought both wealth and pageantry to combat, which Donnan likens to medieval jousts.
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America loves the royal family, partly because of the pomp and pageantry of the whole thing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Massed pipes and drums from 14 regiments accompanied the gun carriage bearing the Queen Mother from Westminster Hall to the Abbey in a moving spectacle of pomp and pageantry.
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Funeral pageantry is especially important in Hamlet ‘as a sign of human order rescued from the jaws of chap-fallen death itself’.
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Handsome production design and pretty faces even after being ‘broken’ by the secret police, some of the drama students remain fresh-faced with a tiny bloody streak and a grimace are the chief assets here, this is pageantry of the Hollywood kind if you go for that sort of thing.
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The royalists will argue that the royal palaces, grounds and pageantry bring in millions of pounds in tourism and I will not argue with that.
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Meanwhile the Olympic Torch, in another ludicrous piece of faux pageantry, is to be paraded across London next month, held aloft by a series of 'celebrities'.
Archive 2008-03-23
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It is a land of supremely Graceful and refreshingly aromatic gum trees; a land of kaleidoscopic wild flower pageantry; of beautiful birds rich in plumage and song.
Australia Looks Ahead
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This was indeed a glorious display of pageantry and dignity.
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In well-nigh every town one or more of these "gilds" were established, delighting the people with their quaint pageantry and elaborate ritual, and forming centres of light and culture throughout the land.
History of Holland
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A total of 4,000 people watched a rousing display of pageantry.
The Sun
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Come, join us in the magic of the Pacific and the pageantry of its people.
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You do pomp and pageantry better than anyone.
The Sun
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The pomp and pageantry seemed to affect our lads quite a bit and they appeared sluggish and nervous at the beginning of the game.
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Readers have brought in their own mementoes of previous days of pomp and pageantry.
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although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry
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Far away from the extreme of pageantry is real life.
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Visitors who come to learn about a culture different from their own and RESPECTULLY observe and appreciate all of the color and pageantry are welcome to spend time in cemeteries to enjoy the beauty of the decorations and the delicious food of the season.
Day of the Dead or El Dia de los Muertos in Oaxaca
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After the carnival pageantry of the State of the Union, Rod's dismal complacencies come across like the mutterings of a crank trapped in an elevator.
Is this the person you want to be listening to a year from now?
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The pomp and pageantry of the Queen's Speech guarantees a wonderful sense of occasion.
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As well as illuminating the subtle stylistic differences of these writers, Bergeron perceptively locates correspondences between the civic pageantry and other areas of the authors' canons, particularly the drama.
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But, unbelievably, there is a downside to all the harrumphing pomp and pageantry.
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Americans are suckers for pageantry and the media was happy to show shots of him surveying a row of busbies or chatting with the Queen.
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The pageantry was the point of attention, her developing musicality merely a small float in the middle of a wild parade.
Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin
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The 90 minute video features music, song, dance and pageantry as well as the opening ceremony itself.
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You do pomp and pageantry better than anyone.
The Sun
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The ceremony and pageantry of the last week was not simply a way of saying goodbye to a much-loved person.
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This year the British public were caught up in the pageantry of the royal wedding and the tragedy of celebrity deaths.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sense of occasion and history was also made more poignant by the pageantry that accompanied it.
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We enjoy the pomp and the pageantry around our monarchy.
The Sun
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More than 1,100 soldiers will take part in the colourful annual display of pomp and pageantry.
Times, Sunday Times
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The function of poetry and the arts is to remind us that the greenroom is the greyest of illusions, and the reality is the drama presented before us, all its paint and tinsel, masks and pageantry, made one in art.
Creative Unity
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the bright pageantry of court
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They were expected to attend the urban celebrations of the great festivals and took part in the pageantry and the festivities.
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She loved the pageantry and tradition of the Royal Family.
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Colorful, showy display; pageantry or pomp.
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They struggled to stay composed amid the pomp and pageantry.
The Sun
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Success-even getting better-is made really important and a cause for celebration with noise and pageantry.
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They struggled to stay composed amid the pomp and pageantry.
The Sun
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It was the glamour and pageantry attached to the whole event that set us thinking of the first Olympics and how they came to be.
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The crowd roared approval before departing content after another spectacular display of British pomp and pageantry.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was wrapped up in colourful pageantry and before long 10,000 spectators were watching from a nearby hill.
Times, Sunday Times
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The King loved pageantry so there were trumpets and heralds proclaiming his coming.
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Yet though there were feast days gay with the color of pageantry and procession, the worker was always in a servile state, an underman dependent upon his master, and sometimes looking upon his condition as little better than slavery.
The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners
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It will all be done tastefully - as a nation we do heritage and pageantry well - and tears will no doubt be shed for a shared loss.
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The combination of fantastic quality racing and the unique splendour and pageantry that Royal Ascot provides makes it a real spectacle for viewers.
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The Advent fast ended on Christmas Eve; then there were twelve days of feasting, banqueting, pageantry, disguising, and convivial merrymaking, all presided over by the Lord of Misrule, or Master of Merry Disports.
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More than 1,100 soldiers will take part in the colourful annual display of pomp and pageantry.
Times, Sunday Times
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Besides, he has no tolerance for the pomp, pageantry and pretense of the whole show.
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That was followed by dozens of special events including readings, plays, pageantry and exhibitions.
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The celebrations would continue for a full week, filled with pomp and pageantry.
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Only those on work-based learning courses will be expected to turn up as normal when the five-day festival of horse racing and pageantry is hosted by the city.
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The emotions that poured forth at that death and the glorious pageantry that surrounded her funeral showed the true heart of her countrymen.
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The opportunity to participate in large-scale public ritual, with musicians, dancers, procession and pageantry, is a powerful way to experience religion and religious freedom.
Grove Harris: Halloween and Samhain: Secular and Sacred Celebrations
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The gorgeous, garish splendour of sunset pageantry flames out; the long shadows eagerly cover all; the kookaburras laugh their merry mocking good-night; the clouds fade to turquoise, green, and grey; the stars peep shyly out; the soft call of the mopoke arises in the gullies!
My Brilliant Career
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America loves the royal family, partly because of the pomp and pageantry of the whole thing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The polytheist is oppressed and distracted by the variety of superstition: a thousand rites of Egyptian origin were interwoven with the essence of the Mosaic law; and the spirit of the gospel had evaporated in the pageantry of the church.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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-- Outwardly there was pomp, stately manners, pageantry, high magnificence; inwardly, a burning-up of the national imagination to ensoul it.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
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You've got to hand it to the Brits: they redefine the meaning of the word pageantry.
Lisa Mirza Grotts: Royal Observations From the Curb: The Crowds, the Gown, the Crown!
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Had we stayed at home I'd have plonked myself in front of the TV and watched the ceremonies and the pageantry being played out in London.
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It all just adds to the colour, glamour and pageantry.
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I wish the commentators would tell us what we're seeing, but they are yapping generically about pageantry.
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Something like the royal wedding appealed to me and I loved that pomp and pageantry.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pomp, pageantry and gaiety ran riot making the atmosphere electric.
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A fast paced game of passion and pageantry played by colorful and attractive women, chock full of good-natured violence and brimming with personality.
WHIP IT Blu-ray Review – Collider.com
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Close to the spot where the maharanee had halted were some hangings of brocade arranged, as we understood later, so that the seated and veiled figure of a woman might observe the brilliant pageantry of the day from the privacy of this purdah.
Tales of Destiny
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OK, so it's a bit of constitutional glitter and pomp and pageantry junkies love it.
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When the chimes of the campanili had dimmed to a faint cadence, like some unuttered rhythm of thought, as the distance grew between the outsailing fleet and all that pageantry of Venice, two faces stood forth like visions from the bewildering pictures of the morning and dwelt with
The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus
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The crowd roared approval before departing content after another spectacular display of British pomp and pageantry.
Times, Sunday Times
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I like the pageantry, the pomp.
Times, Sunday Times
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But if this wedding makes good telly, there's no argument that royal pageantry still works.
Times, Sunday Times
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Attempts to filmically infuse this material with a Tolkien-esque sweep and drive will fail, as the thudding Prince Caspian — the second adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series — failed: the intimacy evaporated, the pageantry became stultifying, the audience went zzzz.
Sex and the Single Wizard
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This year's festival looks to the past to help the city celebrate St George's Day, focusing on the medieval pageantry of yesteryear.
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Weisflog rattles off the planned improvements: new choir ranks in both organs, several mixture stops, a pedal open diapason, and an en chamade or horizontal state trumpet to lend pomp and pageantry to academic convocations.
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The noise and the blare, the bands and the screaming, the pageantry and oratory of the long full campaign fade on election day.
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For all the pomp and pageantry, though, there was little triumphalism on display.
Times, Sunday Times
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Besides, he has no tolerance for the pomp, pageantry and pretense of the whole show.
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Pomp, pageantry and gaiety ran riot making the atmosphere electric.
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Jedidah didn't understand why her hostess was fussing with such pageantry in her own home for this begrimed gypsy.
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Amidst the pageantry the monarchy is presented as a part of the unbroken tradition unifying the nation.
