pageantry

Mostly they knowingly forfeit the cash to have their 15 minutes in the limelight, sending up the pageantry of British politics.

From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026

Mr. Ali, who directed the flashy but fun “Twelfth Night” that reopened the Delacorte last year, again piles on the pageantry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The last of these, with its red-white-and-blue pageantry dripping with patriotic pride, seems to be of particular interest to the president.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

As Monteiro notes, “When we go to a film festival, the pageantry is a big part of the presentation, and I don’t think there is any pageant that is as glamorous and scrutinized as Cannes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 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

Thou, bethink thee, art A guest for queens to social pageantries, With gages from a hundred brighter eyes Than tears even can make mine, to play thy part Of chief musician.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But it is in lyric Andalusia that these pageantries are most at home.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

But yet her look turned not aside   From the black deep where dreams abide,     Where worlds and pageantries lay dead   Beneath that viewless tide.

From The Common Law by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers