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Pageantry


Definition:

  • (n.) Scenic shows or spectacles, taken collectively; spectacular quality; splendor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indeed, with the pageantry already knocked off the top of the news by reports from Old Trafford, the very idea of a cohesive coalition programme about anything other than cuts looks that bit harder to sustain.
  • (2) There's nothing wrong with Sir Bob, but I already hear the rumble of meaningless pageantry and national self-congratulation.
  • (3) No amount of choreographed fireworks or musical pageantry can mask that this is little more than a public hanging, and there is no honour in summoning the world to our gallows.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Queen’s speech: Pomp, pageantry and Dennis Skinner’s heckle – video highlights Lord Falconer, the Labour peer and shadow justice secretary, said the language in the Queen’s speech on the human rights act, which is controversial with some Conservative backbenchers, was too vague.
  • (5) 'American carnage': Donald Trump's vision casts shadow over day of pageantry Read more Charles Lindbergh, the famed aviator, its chief spokesman, delivered a notorious speech to the America First Committee just eleven days after Hitler invaded Poland and launched World War II in 1939, which described “an over-increasing effort to force the United States into the conflict,” “carried on by foreign interests, and by a small minority of our own people.” Lindbergh identified the enemies of American “independence and freedom”: “The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration.” After Pearl Harbor, the America First Committee disbanded.
  • (6) Boyle knows that there can be no North Korean pageantry, nor any of the unironic, chest-puffing patriotism of LA 1984.
  • (7) You are crazy.” Pope Francis departs US after historic tour from Havana to Philadelphia - live Read more The mass capped a day of rapture and poignance for those swept up in a week of pope mania, a public relations triumph during which the 78-year-old Argentinian deftly mixed politics and pageantry to draw attention to his priorities – poverty, injustice, pollution – and to challenge the US to do better.
  • (8) It’s probably a very smart approach to deal with a bully.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump joins ceremonial sword dance in Saudi Arabia Pointing to the sword dance Trump took part in on his trip to Saudi Arabia, she said that Trump clearly enjoys honours and pageantry.
  • (9) Starkey and I are hidden away in a back room at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich , where he has guest curated an exhibition tracing the history of Thames pageantry.
  • (10) Some believe the sentiment and pageantry around his loss would rally sympathy for the party to which he is so devoted that he once joked he would seek out a branch in heaven.
  • (11) Music, colour and pageantry is generally supplied on such occasions by the Gordon Highlanders.
  • (12) Young love; pageantry delivered punctiliously; and old love, too.
  • (13) But even now, the graveyard clamour and pageantry of martyrdom has not led Hezbollah's leaders to address their direct involvement – a move that has profound implications both in Lebanon and across the region.
  • (14) The Queen’s speech, delivered in the House of Lords amid the traditional pageantry, included plans for 21 bills , on topics ranging from streamlining the planning system to tackling extremism – as well as three carried over from the previous session, including the investigatory powers bill, which will make it easier for public bodies to monitor communications .
  • (15) Experts say the state-sponsored pageantry surrounding the project marks it more as an attempt to stir patriotic feelings and support for Egypt’s military-backed government.
  • (16) Bonfires, fireworks and traditional pageantry are all part of the week's programme which has full coverage on BBC TV and radio."
  • (17) – he asked me a question that changed my entire perspective: what if some of Bizet's "pageantry" held a key to the opera's deepest meaning?
  • (18) No, it's mostly that I dislike the impulse that it is possible somehow to eliminate the hum of life from a school and, with it, all the social pageantry that makes, for most students, a state school education even remotely endurable.
  • (19) When the models stood stock-still for their finale, their sumptuous gowns distressed by bullet holes and burnmarks, they seemed to follow in the great British tradition of pageantry.
  • (20) The aristocratic Blow also had a huge influence on McQueen’s worldview, fuelling an interest in history and pageantry.

Show


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers).
  • (v. t.) To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.
  • (v. t.) Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door.
  • (v. t.) To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event.
  • (v. t.) To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor.
  • (v. i.) To exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem.
  • (v. i.) To have a certain appearance, as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
  • (n.) The act of showing, or bringing to view; exposure to sight; exhibition.
  • (n.) That which os shown, or brought to view; that which is arranged to be seen; a spectacle; an exhibition; as, a traveling show; a cattle show.
  • (n.) Proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp.
  • (n.) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
  • (n.) False semblance; deceitful appearance; pretense.
  • (n.) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor.
  • (n.) A pale blue flame, at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of fire damp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Forty-nine patients (with 83 eyes showing signs of the disease) were followed up for between six months and 12 years.
  • (2) Cancer patients showed abnormally high plasma free tryptophan levels.
  • (3) In contrast, arteries which were exposed to CO showed a higher uptake of cholesterol as compared to their corresponding control.
  • (4) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
  • (5) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
  • (6) These results show that the pathogenic phenotypes of MCF viruses are dissociable from the thymotropic phenotype and depend, at least in part, upon the enhancer sequences.
  • (7) In addition, intravenous injection of complexes into rabbits showed optimal myocardial images with agents of intermediate lipophilicity.
  • (8) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
  • (9) In the surface epithelial cells, the basolateral cell surface showed moderate enzymatic activity.
  • (10) These studies show that metabolic activation is necessary for the expression of the mutagenic activity of aflatoxins B1 and G1 in N. crassa.
  • (11) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
  • (12) During and after the infusion of 5HTP, none of the patients showed an increase in anxiety or depressive symptoms, despite the presence of severe side effects.
  • (13) Snooker, which became and remains a fixture in the BBC2 schedules, was chosen for showing because it is the sport in which different shades are most significant.
  • (14) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
  • (15) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
  • (16) Histological studies showed that the resulting pancreatitis was usually mild to moderate, being severe only in association with sepsis.
  • (17) The PSB dioxygenase system displayed a narrow substrate range: none of 18 sulphonated or non-sulphonated analogues of PSB showed significant substrate-dependent O2 uptake.
  • (18) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
  • (19) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
  • (20) They spend about 4.3 minutes of each working hour on a smoking break, the study shows.

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