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pageantry

/paj-uhn-tree/US // ˈpædʒ ən tri //UK // (ˈpædʒəntrɪ) //

庆典活动,庆典,庆典仪式,宴会

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pag·eant·ries.

    • : spectacular display; pomp: the pageantry of a coronation.
    • : mere show; empty display.
    • : pageants collectively; pageants and the performance of pageants.

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Examples

  • It’s easy to overinflate the accomplishments of the present, particularly when the event in question carries the pageantry of the Olympics.

  • It was a celebration low on introspection but thick with pageantry.

  • He writes that virtual summits remove the pageantry and rituals that set these kinds of events apart from the day-to-day of politics, and makes them feel urgent and important to the participants.

  • Producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh have maintained that the ceremony will be shot like a movie, perhaps an effort to mix things up and attract viewers who lost interest in the usual pageantry over the years.

  • The McSweenys typically bought a table and invited friends who had never been to an inaugural ball to let them experience the pageantry and patriotism first hand.

  • Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.

  • Passersby passed by, displaying the full pageantry of West Village life.

  • A papal visit, by definition, is freighted with emotion and pageantry.

  • Cannons were fired, brass bands played, and American-inspired pomp and pageantry abounded.

  • But what gets lost among all the bitter pageantry is the little matter of delegates.

  • The poor like the Queen personally, and like to gaze at royal pageantry; but they are not fanatically loyal.

  • The ceremony was shorn of the grotesque pageantry of chivalric times, and was confined to the interior of the abbey.

  • Its grand opening was a riot of splendid colorings and beauty, never surpassed in all pageantry.

  • Man seeks to adorn death; the pageantry of the funeral, the attractiveness of the cemetery, all show this.

  • It is a religion of love, practical, undemonstrative, knowing nothing of pageantry and spectacle.