pageantry.
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n.noun · 名词
- 1.
plural pag·eant·ries.
- ›spectacular display; pomp: the pageantry of a coronation.
- ›mere show; empty display.
- ›pageants collectively; pageants and the performance of pageants.
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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 is the little matter of delegates.