pageantry

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• It’s easy to overinflate the accomplishments of the present, particularly when the event in question carries the pageantry of the Olympics.

• It was a celebration low on introspection but thick with pageantry.

• He writes that virtual summits remove the pageantry and rituals that set these kinds of events apart from the day-to-day of politics, and makes them feel urgent and important to the participants.

• Producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh have maintained that the ceremony will be shot like a movie, perhaps an effort to mix things up and attract viewers who lost interest in the usual pageantry over the years.

• The McSweenys typically bought a table and invited friends who had never been to an inaugural ball to let them experience the pageantry and patriotism first hand.

• Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.

• Passersby passed by, displaying the full pageantry of West Village life.

• A papal visit, by definition, is freighted with emotion and pageantry.

• Cannons were fired, brass bands played, and American-inspired pomp and pageantry abounded.

• But what gets lost among all the bitter pageantry is the little matter of delegates.

• The poor like the Queen personally, and like to gaze at royal ; but they are not fanatically loyal.