pageantry
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That it was live television and just this pageantry of people congratulating themselves, congratulating each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
On television, on one of the three channels then available to us, we watched the pageantry and the pomp.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
From the minute King Charles and Queen Camilla stepped onto the White House South Lawn, US networks dumped their standard diet of political warfare and breaking news for something rare: pure pageantry.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
The jokes landed, the warm words resonated, the pageantry looked good on the evening news.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
I watched the pageantry from my vantage there.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
Why all this glare of splendid eloquence, To paint the pageantries of guilty state?
From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel
Count,240 Will well supply the place of both—I am not A lover of these pageantries.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
Where are their quondam glories—their arts and rare inventions—their "thoughts in antique words conveyed"—their "boast of heraldry"—their pageantries and shows?
From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 83, May 31, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc by Various
