pageantry

Some of these lines get at this crucial point that I think your music makes, which is that pageantry and sincerity can coexist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The pageantry is a gamble rather than a guarantee, most of all for Xi, who is staking his standing at home on a smooth performance by the least predictable counterpart in the room.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Wearing simple street clothes amid the pageantry made her feel even more the outsider—and the apprentice armband made it worse.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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 Samuel Johnson

For sports, for pageantries, and plays, Thou hast thy eves and holidays On which the young men and maids meet To exercise their dancing feet, Tripping the comely country-round, With daffodils and daisies crowned.

From In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World by Harrison S. (Harrison Smith) Morris

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