ceremoniousness

“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.”

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.

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.”

The point is the big funny hats and the hokey, jokey ceremoniousness.

A Knack of the Slow-Witted.—The slow-witted thinker generally allies himself with loquacity and ceremoniousness.