The Surprise is a stiffly hierarchal place of pomp and ritual that is nonetheless consecrated to ideals of fair play, decency and honor and ruled by a man whose claim on the words in the film's title comes, if not by divine right, then at least by demi-godlike force of character.
Yet in place of pomp all we got on Tuesday was a ghastly mixture of tedium and bad faith.
The next afternoon I find myself in the SMITE Oceanic arena for the semi-finals, a place with the pomp of an American sports arena and the layout of a TV panel show.
It's not a lot of pomp and circumstance.
He wanted to create a city of "pomp and regularity".
The funeral was a pageant of pomp and excess.
The gift cards arrive five much touted courtiers in a parade of pomp and virtual circumstance.
All the same, every state dinner is a mixture of pomp and politics.
"It was a lot of pomp and circumstance," Sylvester Stallone recalled.
As the musical themes tie together in a farandole of pomp and percussion, so do Mr. Wheeldon's choreographic strands.
