pageantry

“The elaborate pageantry matters precisely because there is still relatively little substantive progress to showcase,” Singleton said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

US President Donald Trump took Chinese leader Xi Jinping to see the founding documents of American democracy on Friday, capping a state visit full of pomp and pageantry but with no major breakthroughs.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

The pandas, the pageantry and the warm words may help smooth this relationship.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Both Xi and President Trump are prioritizing the summit’s optics and pageantry over resolving major policy disputes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

It's also a tradition of high pageantry, in which lawmakers dramatically express their approval or disapproval of the president’s ideas by either leaping to their feet in repeat standing ovations or remaining seated and sullen.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

An arrival ceremony on the South Lawn ranks among the most regal of pageantries that Washington has to offer, reserved usually for the most important of visitors and even then for special occasions.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2015

He has conceived scintillating decors for Ziegfeld pageantries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or pageantries here upon our earth, and things looking down upon us—and the Crusades were only dust clouds, and glints of the sun on shining armor were only particles of mica in dust clouds.

From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

The second talked in tapestries, by fantasy beguiled; As frail as bubbles, hard as gems, his pageantries he piled; "This Lord of Language, who is he?"

From Ballads of a Bohemian by Robert W. (Robert William) Service

Thursday was marked by divers pageantries, prepared by order of the Lord Chamberlain, by the devisor. 

From Rambles in an Old City comprising antiquarian, historical, biographical and political associations by S. S. Madders