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Sentence Examples The pomp and pageantry of the Queen's Speech guarantees a wonderful sense of occasion. My life would be pomp and circumstance, and my friends would be courtiers and other royals. By 1900, larger country houses had reverted to full-blooded classicism, presaging an imperial pomp which few Edwardian architects could resist. On a far lighter note, I just love the pomp and ceremony of all the military parades, heraldry, and regalia. A few weeks since, the young nobleman would have watched in admiration all that magnificent heraldry of the pomp of the storm. But all the pomp and ceremony could not hide the empty character of this charade. The advent of the Empire brought the return of a full-blown court with all its pomp and ceremony. Atherly said had he been at home, Durity would have been given the pomp and ceremony befitting a former mayor. The visit would have involved huge pomp and ceremony intended to make a mark on the rebels in the North. I also think the pomp and ceremony of the meeting means little to ordinary people in Preston. Why devote so much pomp and ceremony to someone who lived such a long and full life and died peacefully? The children are dressed in black smocks with white collars and taken to school with pomp and ceremony. The long awaited Wootton Bassett War Memorial is due to be unveiled with due pomp and ceremony in October. For all the pomp and ceremony and the thousands lining the streets, this was also an intensely personal service. For the first time we have a glimpse of the perishable artefacts which played such a major role in Aztec rituals, pomp and ceremony. Meet the man himself and take a peak behind his curtains to see what really goes on behind all the pomp and ceremony. The monarchy is all about show, the man cloaked and hidden from view by pomp, ceremony and symbolism. It could be viewed as old-style, Communist pomp and ceremony aimed at boosting the morale and devotion of the people. The magnificent pomp and ceremony of Royal occasions remains a rich symbol of Britain's great history. Everything else is carried out with pomp and ceremony by the deferential, impeccably mannered, staff. Show More Sentences A fusion of pageants, marching bands, pomp, ceremony and celebration resurrected the spirit of St Patrick's Day in Dublin yesterday. The pomp and pageantry seemed to affect our lads quite a bit and they appeared sluggish and nervous at the beginning of the game. But, unbelievably, there is a downside to all the harrumphing pomp and pageantry. The celebrations would continue for a full week, filled with pomp and pageantry. Readers have brought in their own mementoes of previous days of pomp and pageantry. Early group portraits show noble surgeons parading their medical knowledge with elitist pomp. Most of us are not over-awed by the panoply of pomp that goes with formal royal occasions. Here pomp and swank are so remote that you secretly wish for a larger, more elegant lounge. The celebration was a grand display of pomp and circumstance led by the students of the school. The 40-piece ensemble promises an evening of pomp and circumstance featuring popular classics and surprises. There has been a tendency to see Rome as all pomp and glory but there is the humdrum about it as well. It was a moment of pomp and circumstance, and of great symbolism, tinged with more than a little sadness. Despite all the pomp and circumstance, political hurly-burly raised its head at yesterday's festivities. Deepavali, the festival of lights, is one of the festivals celebrated with great pomp and gaiety. The alternative is to look upon the monarch as a mere figurehead, a focal point for tradition, pomp and ritual on the great occasions of state. The initiate is dressed in finery and escorted with pomp to the monastery, where his head and eyebrows are shaved. By Victorian times, the plum pudding was a major part of the Christmas feast, brought to the table with great pomp. These scenes were not unlike those described in the film, only the pomp and circumstance was held at home and on the front simultaneously. The festival runs from early July to late August and is rich in medieval pomp and ceremony as well as classical music and theatre. In a documentary to be shown on BBC 2 tonight, he will reveal his distaste for pomp and ceremony in the Anglican Church. Show More Sentences Opening with pomp and ceremony, China brought 100 of its companies to New York City. The very first episode shows a Europe immersed in the grandeur of pomp and circumstance. Thanks to famous Indian secularism, this Buddhist tradition, in all its ceremonial pomp, continues to this day. We can have as much pomp and circumstance as we like, but it's not going to turn our Parliament into something it's not. The event took place with a flourish of military pomp and ceremony, and army officers wore black armbands in memory of the Queen Mother. The pomp and ceremony of Prince Felipe's wedding, two months after the attacks, allowed Madrid to indulge itself again. Royal charters must wither and perish along with the few remaining aspects of pomp, dignity and flummery. Behind all the pomp and ceremony of Louis XIV's court, the ancient regime was rotting. There's no self-glorification and no hard-sell behind London's brightest young things, no pomp and no pretence. And ever since then I have held little regard for all the pomp and ceremony of military processions and patriotism. There was, however, a personal message from the President, under his signature, delivered with official pomp and protocol in Paris. The idea behind pasture golf is golfing without all the pomp and circumstance. It has all the pomp and grandeur of a Roman general marching into war with his troops. All the pomp and ceremony being done with, Lyon kick off from right to left in their dark blue. There was no pomp and show to mark the occasion, only the greetings and compliments of his well-wishers. And most of us shudder at the idea of ridding the monarchy of the pomp and pageantry that routinely works us up into a collective frenzy. In its pomp KGF was the wealthiest gold reef in the British Empire, with the deepest shaft at Champion Reef. Behind all the pomp and the communist rhetoric, this is a peace loving country. But however many millions it may cost to support the monarchy in all its pomp, the Queen sets a shining example of thrift and prudence. Without artificial self-aggrandizement, he may realize that external pomp is a poor substitute for inner worth. Show More Sentences The opening numbers are all high-octane rock numbers with the emphasis on ultimate pomp and showmanship. Not so long ago a new train service was inaugurated with due pomp and ceremony. Yet, while magic had not lost its potency or usefulness, most of its solemn pomp and ceremonial value was long gone. The parade showcased the nation's cultural legacy with pomp, colour and splendour. It is an occasion celebrated with pomp and splendor, starting with colourful marches followed by vibrant speeches. Why is the pomp and ceremony so important to us even in a non-religious service? Her status meant that her journey through the realm newly acquired by the Stuarts occasioned considerable pomp and ceremony. Rather than tour London in all his pomp, he will be whisked in a motor cavalcade numbering up to 30 vehicles, along the most direct and least visible of routes. The Large Hadron Collider was switched on last week amid scenes of pomp and jollity, much drinking of champagne, speech-making, and miscellaneous frivolity. The pomp and the circumstance is all engineered by them, not by us. There was no special pomp and ceremony to mark the occasion. He speaks perfect English, eschews pomp and formality and uses the Autocue to deliver his speech with a professionalism that should make other politicians envious. When you shear it of all its pomp and extravagance, when you whittle it down to the very basics of musical comedy plotting, Half a Sixpence should work like a lucky charm. Margaret Thatcher is to be accorded a send-off filled with pomp and ceremony in London on Wednesday. But if you have an overly sensitive radar for cinematic pomp, stay clear. In 1840 his body is exhumed and with pomp and ceremony moved to Paris. Henry joined her in Poitiers and they were married in the cathedral on Whit Sunday in a simple ceremony with none of the pomp and splendour that might have been expected. The crowd went on its way all smiling and you wondered whether there could be pomp and ceremony, any kind of public celebration without a brass band. The Castle is a fairly unimpressive affair, all conference rooms, plush carpeting, pomp and circumstance, but the grounds and gardens are calm and serene. A glittering spectacle of British pomp and majesty it may be, but the clothes are rather tight, and the room is somewhat airless. Show More Sentences Russell, who in his tea-drinking pomp would get through 20 cups a day, used to dip the tea bag in once, add plenty of milk, then hang it on a nail ready for subsequent use. We still seem driven by hype, by illusory health scares and benefits, by pomp, by the new and trendy, than by taste. The walk would be an in-the-flesh demonstration, without pomp and pretence, as to just how in touch with real life our officials at City Hall are, or are not. We had so much pomp and ceremony, and everyone was part of it. Massed pipes and drums from 14 regiments accompanied the gun carriage bearing the Queen Mother from Westminster Hall to the Abbey in a moving spectacle of pomp and pageantry. Holbrooke then used a Karzai visit to Washington in May to laud the Afghan leader with pomp, circumstance, and attention. History often provides an opportunity for political outfits to flex their muscles and resort to a show of pomp to impress a wavering rank and file. Cannons were fired, brass bands played, and American-inspired pomp and pageantry abounded. You can, in short, overdo the pomp of sci-fi prophecy, the edge of quasi-religiosity that turns decently crafted fiction into something more grandiose. Compared to where we had just been, what we had so recently done, all the pomp and circumstance seemed ingratiatingly trivial. The French verse-makers aimed at something higher than the English, and produced works which depend on pomp and style for any claim to attention they may have. There was pomp, there was ceremony and there were celebrities dressed to the nines. Take physic, pomp, Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just. It has all the pomp and ceremony of a synthy dubstepped Queen and is very reminiscent of I Want To Break Free. A lethally fast bowler in his pomp, only 11 men have taken more than his 222 Test wickets for England. After the battle Richard's corpse was taken to Leicester and buried without pomp. At his funeral no pomp, no pageantry, no civic procession, no military display. This is full of festive pomp and fanfares, with a long ritornello of the introduction, using the full force of the choir and orchestra. The Mohassil, in return, pays a visit to the Consul, and is received with much pomp and the Consular house. Augustus died an old but respected man in the year 14 and was celebrated with much pomp and splendor. Show More Sentences If you are new to pomp fishing, you might not know what a sand flea is or how to rig it. Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace. If a product is beautiful, why do you need all that pomp and circumstance? There was much pomp at the ceremony that made him an ordained minister. Amid royal razzmatazz, religious pomp and military panoply, King Richard III was buried in Leicester Cathedral yesterday, 530 years after he died in the Battle of Bosworth. The gentry has indeed come to be looked at enviously by very many aspiring failingly for a life of pomp and show that the eminences of this opulent glitterati put on display. In their sixteenth-century pomp, the great naval yards of the Arsenale turned out a galleon a day, but are now sparsely populated by rusting vaporetti and motor boats. Oxygen therapy, iv nitrate and heparin, oral acetylsalicylic acid and proton pomp inhibitor treatments were administered and thrombolytic treatment was not given. All this royal pomp and circs and magnificence and significance and sacred music and you are, quite rightly, your unaffected modern English selves. I was much struck with a communication, which, in lack of perspicuity as well as pomp of language it would puzzle our cisatlantic writers to exceed. The marriage was celebrated with great pomp and splendour, many feasts and entertainments, and public parades and celebrations followed commemorating the event. The programme includes the Mozart clarinet concerto, Vaughan Williams' Folk Song Suite and Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance. Examples from Classical Literature And what are pomp and fashion, but the painted signs of good living where there is no life? The pomp and magnificence of sunset were in abeyance to-night, were laid aside. The state and pomp which surrounded the monarch seem scarcely to have fallen short of the Achaemenian standard. The pomp of Antony's position, too, and his kingly personality pleased our poet. For where joy reigns on every side, to hunt for it arduously, or amidst pomp and circumstances, is to lose it. Glorious and soul-stirring was the Durbar itself with all the pomp of heraldry and blazonry of colour. The ceremony was performed from the deck of the bucentaur, or state-galley, with every possible accompaniment of pomp and parade. In the evening it was the custom for the canons to chaunt vespers with great pomp. The first movement has the martial pomp and hauteur and the Sardanapalian opulence and color that mark 294 a barbaric triumph. Here were no pomp and circumstance to interpose their false colours before the sordid vista of the future. In the first row stood Monceux, in all the pomp of his shrievalty, with his councilmen and aldermen. Marbella, though invested with the pomp and circumstance of war, is but a contemptible fortress. I beheld the pomp thick gathered round The trophied car that bore thy graced remains Through armed ranks, and a nation gazing on. He died at Vincennes, and with great pomp his body was brought by Paris to London. The battle was ending without even the poor pomp and circumstance of torn banners and wailful music. But pleasure, pomp, and pageantry were not the sole uses of these guilds in olden days. Her nuptials were to be attended with the pomp and splendour of a royal marriage. What great pomp and crake then is this they make of antiquity? We then marched in triumphant pomp to the Balla Hissar of Peshawur. There was much pomp and ceremony attached to these knightly exercises. Show More Sentences Give me health and a day and I will put the pomp of emperors to shame. The marquis had naturally expected to find him in the midst of pomp. No pomp of funeral was, indeed, necessary for such a person. No great display of wealth, armies of pageboys, pomp and ceremony, or aristocrats posing for society photographers. There is a great deal of ostentation and bombastic pomp about it. Neither of us are monarchists but they were a lovely couple and nobody does pomp and circumstance better then the Brits. His amputated foot was dug up and reinterred with extraordinary pomp. The day had begun sombrely in gray cloud and mist, but it had ended in a pomp of scarlet and gold. The shipwrecked Italian nobles arrive on stage full of pomp in long coats and the drunken scene with Caliban is genuinely funny. This concerto however, never seeks mere flashiness or pomp, a fact that bespeaks the intelligence of the composer. She went and sat down on her candle box, and the pride and pomp of her victorious attitude made it a throne. For seven days the whole nation mourned, and then the ashes of the princess were buried with great pomp, and a superb tomb was raised over her. I ask no splendor, no pomp of triumphs, nor lictors with their fasces. In Spain, it is celebrated with all the pomp and ostentation imaginable. According to her own wish, she was taken to saint-denis without pomp. If on the other hand you hear of his death, come home at once, celebrate his funeral rites with all due pomp, build a barrow to his memory, and make your mother marry again. Some of them, indeed, by their services in the Low Countries and on other fields of European warfare, had fairly won their title to assume the name and pomp of soldiership. Expect powdered periwigs, satin breeches, velvet frock coats and dazzling cuffs, as the musicians get stuck into the verve, colour and pomp of the 18th-century concert hall. A toilet is described with the solemnity of an altar raised to the goddess of vanity, and the history of a silver bodkin is given with all the pomp of heraldry. He showed the more respect to this queen, deprived of every mark of pomp and stripped of followers, as he felt some self-reproach for his own want of heart and his avarice. Show More Sentences He has been seated on a throne surrounded with minions and mistresses, giving audience to the envoys of foreign potentates, in all the supercilious pomp of majesty. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or the Mormon Church, in Beirut lacks the pomp and pageantry found in many houses of worship in Lebanon. Vanity, it may be, chose to mortify itself, by putting on, for ceremonials of pomp and state, the garments that had been wrought by her sinful hands. They placed him in the midst of them, and with much pomp and stateliness they conducted him into another room, where there was a sumptuous table laid with but four covers. The king was conducted to the castle with great pomp, and Fouquet saw him dismount under the portcullis, and say something in the ear of D'Artagnan, who held his stirrup. Since Uncle Pomp let me put that mixtry of nice mud and brick dust on his shoe he don't suffer with his frost-bit heel no more. Pomp and ceremonial, popes and kings, are toys for children. Pomp thinks all the world of her, and she will be the peacemaker, perhaps. My Father seduced by the false glare of Fortune and the Deluding Pomp of Title, insisted on my giving my hand to Lady Dorothea. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of pomp? Words that rhyme with pomp What is the past tense of pomp? What is the plural of pomp? What is the adverb for pomp? What is the adjective for pomp? What is the noun for pomp? Translations for pomp Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Pomona pomology pomodoro Pomo pommy pommie pompadour pompano Pompeian Pompeii Pompey pompholyx 4-letter Words Starting With p po pom