Far away from the extreme of pageantry is real life. From Wordnik.com. [No. Just wrong. « Dating Jesus] Reference
The pageantry was the point of attention, her developing musicality merely a small float in the middle of a wild parade. From Wordnik.com. [Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin]
Apparently, without "pageantry," we'll never achieve substance. From Wordnik.com. [TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads] Reference
Maybe I'm just feeling like this whole "pageantry" of the federal government is such a lame show anymore. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's address to Congress... the live-blog.] Reference
Seven Swans 'directness with the self-described "pageantry" of. From Wordnik.com. [Rawkblog :: When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Blog] Reference
Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009 | 2 a.m. might have opened with the kind of pageantry befitting royalty. From Wordnik.com. [Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines] Reference
The Papal star is growing dim; the pageantry of the. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Like a corpse-pageantry visioned in some monk's dream. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
London, famous as it always had been for its pageantry. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
"" There is no harm in having the pageantry, '' he said. From Wordnik.com. [Peers Pressured] Reference
Packed house, pageantry was great, sportsmanship was great. From Wordnik.com. [Friedgen says Maryland-Navy game is 'great for the state'] Reference
Reagan's death, though, was not only about pageantry and the past. From Wordnik.com. [THE EDITOR'S DESK] Reference
The quake's significance was acknowledged by some Olympic pageantry. From Wordnik.com. [Quest for Gold] Reference
That will be the aim of much of the pageantry at the Democratic convention. From Wordnik.com. [Making the Most of Mom] Reference
My adolescence in the 60s had been witness to a long pageantry of lunar landing modules. From Wordnik.com. [New Moon] Reference
Mr. Federer's fans, of course, would put their man at the forefront of tennis pageantry. From Wordnik.com. [The Prettiest Strokes Of All Time] Reference
The Day of the funeral, for all the pomp and pageantry and live TV, he belonged to them. From Wordnik.com. [Bobby's Last, Longest Day] Reference
There was no pageantry for him on this day, no silly songs and hats and screaming children. From Wordnik.com. [Birthday Boy] Reference
But as for the soldiers themselves, grand pageantry in the line of reviews had "played out.". From Wordnik.com. [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference
It was the seat of pageantry, the mirror of manners, the patron or the oppressor of every one. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
Its grand opening was a riot of splendid colorings and beauty, never surpassed in all pageantry. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
In fact death itself is not so formidable to any man as the pageantry with which it is set forth. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
They delight in street pageantry, fancy costumes, theatrical performances, and similar spectacles. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
Nine monarchs rode in the procession and the pageantry evoked "gasps of admiration," wrote Tuchman. From Wordnik.com. [Is Dubai’s Party Over?] Reference
We are a country that loves pageantry, nationalism and winners, but we have a very short attention span. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. Exits World Cup But Finally Arrives] Reference
(Soundbite of drums) DOUALY XAYKAOTHAO: It's been a busy week of pageantry from Seoul to the port city of Pusan. From Wordnik.com. [Korean War Vets Return To The Scene Of Battle] Reference
There was no pageantry — just the heavy tread of the honor guard in a ritual perfected through much repetition. From Wordnik.com. [A Matter of Honor] Reference
Moreover, he was so much in love with all sorts of pageantry and acts of power that he would willingly do his part. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
Instead of the pageantry of bullfighting, baseball offered spontaneous plays rooted in the ingenuity of its players. From Wordnik.com. [An Overlooked Baseball Pioneer] Reference
Dramatic representation, all pageantry, pictorial art, music, even the art of the poster artist and the cartoonist have. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
No subject can be better adapted than this, for combining a splendid variety of pageantry in one oratorio, or sacred opera. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
For all of its merits, democracy lacks a certain pageantry, the regal bling, if you will, that monarchies have in abundance. From Wordnik.com. [Kingdom, Government Clash In Uganda] Reference
After all, it was to have been the first time a U.S. president basked in the full royal pageantry of a state visit to Britain. From Wordnik.com. [State Visit: Running For Cover] Reference
"They could keep all the pageantry and tradition," says Lisa Dewhurst of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. From Wordnik.com. [GUNNING FOR THE HUNT] Reference
Hence the peculiarities which mark the institutions of America -- their utter freedom from cant and the shows and pageantry of state. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Inside the ring of its glamorous pageantry is a circle of closely knit friendships and sociability not found in any other organization. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
When I see the pageantry we're able to put on for a state visit, I am perfectly comfortable with that; I find no problems with that at all. From Wordnik.com. [Britain After Bowler Hats] Reference
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