ceremoniousness

Example Sentences

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“I think people have incorporated the ceremoniousness of candle lighting at mealtime into more of an everyday practice, like many other places in the world, it’s no longer being held exclusively for big holiday tables.”

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2022

I know the Emmys are almost always told they’re too long, but there’s a ceremoniousness that’s been missing for most of the night, especially with this spare set and much smaller in-person attendance.

From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2021

But she promptly divests the phrase of any clinging ceremoniousness with a pun: “Most poems are late / of course,” she writes, “like a letter sent by a sailor / that arrives after he’s drowned.”

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2021

The point is the big funny hats and the hokey, jokey ceremoniousness.

From Fox News • Jan. 15, 2020

But the solemnity and ceremoniousness with which he was arranging the preliminaries of his declaration proved fatal to its success; they gave the young girl time to deliberate, and she too sprang to her feet.

From Vineta The Phantom City by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)