Sentence examples for Mere pageant from inspiring English sources

In 1890 a famous English Catholic, Cardinal Manning, said the Holy See's diplomatic activities were "a mere pageant", a medieval relic.

The situation puts a whole new twist on the quadrennial question about how news organizations should cover the national political conventions, which were once conclaves for the real work of nominating presidents and vice presidents but went on to become mere media messaging pageants.

And these are mere samples of the ordure Fleet Street and Twitter dumped on the BBC's sodden pageant coverage.

My father always won out, and I always went, and always cried bitter, jealous, also-ran, pageant-loser tears on the way home, which infuriated him much more than the mere fact of my losing out on the trophies.

"A pageant.

Children put on pageant.

Will pageant fever persist?

But the whole pageant vanished.

Mere paranoia?

The pageant was abandoned.

Ms. Rader won the pageant.