(n.) A composition, as in music, or in the drama, designed to produce effect by its wild irregularity; esp., a musical caricature.
(n.) An extravagant flight of sentiment or language.
Example Sentences:
(1) The comedy extravaganza featured an array of TV, music and sports stars, including David Beckham, Kate Moss and Robbie Williams.
(2) The Silvio Berlusconi extravaganza is back in town.
(3) The anticipated "big reveal" had been published in the New Zealand Herald several hours before the town hall extravaganza.
(4) The International Olympic Committee – Fifa's comrade in the global 1% – has demonstrated that it's entirely possible to throw a sport extravaganza and still pay taxes.
(5) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
(6) The red carpet part of the proceedings was quite unlike similar extravaganzas at film festivals: you go through a covered walkway into the separate, enclosed red-carpeted area bounded on either side by bleachers, seated terraces filled with paying-public onlookers who are continuously screaming with excitement, as the stars parade forward in lanes, like livestock.
(7) The Voluptuous Horror ... are purported to be converts to a movement known as "anti-naturalism" and they've got an album bearing that phrase, but they don't sound especially transgressive or perverse, which is fine – just think of their music as a way in, an access point, to an art netherworld so out-there it prompted one onlooker to hail the band's live extravaganza as "an unholy stage show of such immense countercultural gravity that I just want to scream 'Hail Satan' at the top of my lungs".
(8) Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus Facebook Twitter Pinterest The title of this psychedelic road trip extravaganza gives a good idea of the drug-fuelled adventures to come.
(9) On Saturday night he is on the undercard of a Floyd Mayweather pay-per-view extravaganza in boxing's capital city and, if he beats the very good young Mexican Pablo César Cano, his mentor has promised him he will do everything he can to get him a world title shot at welterweight, a hot division.
(10) African presidents were among 100 guests at the extravaganza, which cost an estimated $4m (£2.5m).
(11) During the summer, Ghent hosts a wide range of festivals, including the 10-day multi-arts extravaganza Gentse Feesten .
(12) The best World Cups offer a kaleidoscope of images and this brilliantly-staged oval-ball extravaganza outdid anything the game has seen.
(13) Dozens of journalists – from Le Monde in France to Yomiuri Shimbun in Japan – will be part of an international media extravaganza never before seen in an African court.
(14) Also not out until September is Eleanor Catton's highly wrought astrological extravaganza about a woman on trial for murder during the 19th-century New Zealand goldrush, eagerly awaited by fans of her equally dazzling debut The Rehearsal.
(15) "We're doing this now because the politics we believe in does not start with expensive TV ads or extravaganzas, but with you, with people organising block-by-block, talking to neighbours, co-workers, and friends.
(16) The 1979 tour was a tightly choreographed, physically-demanding extravaganza that left the 20-year-old Bush "wiped out": it's hard to imagine her attempting anything equivalent at 55.
(17) Most significantly, there is the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia (fast becoming a serious rival to Austin's annual psych extravaganza ).
(18) Cue a costly whizz-bang extravaganza of CG-powered set pieces foreshadowed with the odd slab of mealy cod philosophy.
(19) From Hogmanay onwards, Scotland's arts festivals and tourist industry, championed by Alex Salmond's nationalist government, will host the second "year of Homecoming", a year-long mood-lifting marketing extravaganza involving hundreds of arts, culture and tourism events.
(20) And the last thing it wants to say is that we were the guilty ones.” However, a bitter public row over a Mao-themed extravaganza held in Beijing earlier this month has unexpectedly thrust the decade-long upheaval back into the headlines.
Pageant
Definition:
(n.) A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.
(n.) An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display.
(a.) Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular.
(v. t.) To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Donald Trump refuses to release birth certificate and passport records Read more Firing back at Univision for its refusal to air his Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants , the outspoken mogul and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has barred anyone who works for Univision from the greens of his Miami golf course.
(2) Entwistle's chances were at one stage thought to have diminished in the wake of the much-criticised BBC coverage of the Diamond Jubilee pageant, which came under his responsibility.
(3) "What happened with the river pageant for the diamond jubilee was the result of the BBC's understandable anxiety that it should not come across as an institution more often than it has to.
(4) The broadcast featured panoramic shots of the hundreds of boats, tugs, cruisers and canoes sailing past the Houses of Parliament during the pageant staged as part of the national celebrations in June.
(5) They are bringing drugs, and bringing crime, and their rapists.” Responses included official condemnation, the withdrawal by TV network Univision from Trump’s Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants , a golf course ban and the creation in Mexico of a Donald Trump piñata .
(6) As for Labour, the rolling pageant of departures from Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet , and the countermoves against them, frequently resembled an episode of Game of Thrones re-enacted by the Teletubbies.
(7) Almost two months later and a day into the war, Trump declared on Fox News: “It looks like a tremendous success, from a military standpoint.” The day after that, in a San Antonio Express interview found by FactCheck.org , Trump said “ war is depressing ” and encouraged people to watch a beauty pageant.
(8) The video also features photos with Bill Clinton, Muhammad Ali and a number of beauty pageant queens.
(9) Not with a song booted out into the world without pageant or fanfare.
(10) And Brand might be a hypocrite if he had bought an entire council estate of his own down the road, in some dodgy local government deal, and was on the verge of moving in the demolition trucks and turning it into a condo with a Miss World pageant on the roof.
(11) Entering Nepal’s first Miss Pink transgender beauty pageant in 2007 changed everything,” she says.
(12) We cannot let that happen.” “He says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia,” she said, adding at another point in the speech: “This isn’t reality television, this is actual reality.” Later, Clinton added: “It is not hard to see how a Trump presidency could lead to a global economic crisis.” The former secretary of state’s speech, staged in front of a wall of US flags, rebutted a foreign policy address Trump made in April in which he promised to save “humanity itself” and “shake the rust off America’s foreign policy”.
(13) Sunday's Thames pageant had a quarter-hour peak of 11.9 million viewers (61%) from 4.15pm, while on Tuesday the carriage procession had a peak of 7.4 million (45.4%) in the 15 minutes from 3.15pm, when the Queen appeared on the balcony at Buckingham Palace.
(14) This tawdry friendship of convenience, these pageants, lies and unethical compromises, may benefit Cameron and Xi, but they are an insult to the citizens of Britain, who cherish their hard-fought freedoms, and to those in China , who are still struggling courageously to achieve them.
(15) Univision said last week it would not air the 12 July pageant because of what it called insulting remarks about Mexican immigrants made by Trump when he announced he was running for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
(16) Swift deserves critique for her brand of feminism, which is part friendship-as-beauty-pageant mixed with individualism on steroids.
(17) It took £27m and 7,500 volunteers to make last night's pageant, but one man to envisage the possibilities and transform them into reality.
(18) The letter to Carusone hints at Trump's litigious past, urging him to "look no further than former Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin, who just last week found herself on the wrong side of a $5m judgment in favour of Mr Trump after falsely stating in the press that the Trump-owned Miss USA pageant was both "fixed" and "trashy".
(19) Some were deposited from Bristol and elsewhere in the middle of the night before the pageant, and told to camp beneath London Bridge.
(20) In one of the defining moments of the opening debate, Clinton successfully baited the former reality TV star by sharing the story of Alicia Machado , the winner of the 1996 Miss Universe pageant, whose physical appearance Trump later derided with nicknames such as “Miss Piggy”.