pageantry

How To Use pageantry In A Sentence

• The Advent fast ended on Christmas Eve; then there were twelve days of feasting, banqueting, pageantry, disguising, and convivial merrymaking, all presided over by the Lord of Misrule, or Master of Merry Disports.
• -- Outwardly there was pomp, stately manners, pageantry, high magnificence; inwardly, a burning-up of the national imagination to ensoul it. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
• The polytheist is oppressed and distracted by the variety of superstition: a thousand rites of Egyptian origin were interwoven with the essence of the Mosaic law; and the spirit of the gospel had evaporated in the pageantry of the church. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• America loves the royal family, partly because of the pomp and pageantry of the whole thing. Times, Sunday Times
• The gorgeous, garish splendour of sunset pageantry flames out; the long shadows eagerly cover all; the kookaburras laugh their merry mocking good-night; the clouds fade to turquoise, green, and grey; the stars peep shyly out; the soft call of the mopoke arises in the gullies! My Brilliant Career
• The opportunity to participate in large-scale public ritual, with musicians, dancers, procession and pageantry, is a powerful way to experience religion and religious freedom. Grove Harris: Halloween and Samhain: Secular and Sacred Celebrations
• The emotions that poured forth at that death and the glorious pageantry that surrounded her funeral showed the true heart of her countrymen.
• Only those on work-based learning courses will be expected to turn up as normal when the five-day festival of horse racing and pageantry is hosted by the city.
• The celebrations would continue for a full week, filled with pomp and pageantry.
• That was followed by dozens of special events including readings, plays, pageantry and exhibitions.