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

“I am on leave of absence from my regiment, Colonel,” continued Fitz Hugh, speaking now with an elaborate ceremoniousness of utterance significant of a struggle to suppress violent emotion.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various