The phrase "as a pageant of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is presented or displayed in a vivid, elaborate, or theatrical manner, often evoking a sense of spectacle.
Example: "The festival unfolded as a pageant of colors, sounds, and emotions, captivating everyone in attendance."
Alternatives: "as a spectacle of" or "as a display of".
Many used the word "cool" to explain their feelings about their parents' presence at the kind of event once framed as a pageant of youth rebellion.
The best in show winner has to be the Observer for its 1935 headline describing Chelsea as a Pageant of Loveliness.
Second, Hazan's zeal for prosecution as a pageant of punishment leads him to demand a clean narrative of retribution from the Tribunal itself, unclouded by a serious recognition of the limits of law and the requirements of procedural justice.
While his work is routinely celebrated as an authentic reaction to the horrors and the dislocations of the Second World War, it can come off, in the telling, as a pageant of hangovers and refractory lovers.
Tippett described the longest and most ambitious of his late works, the oratorio The Mask of Time (1982), as "a pageant of sorts with an ultimately lofty message".
He appreciated as never before a pageant of torn clouds and winter sunsets seen from his office window, the charm of antique lamps glowing between his neighbors' living-room curtains, the cries of children in the park, at dusk, unwilling to leave the hill where they'd been tobogganing.
Despite the creepier Freudian accents provided in this version, the Mizners mostly come across as emblematic figures in a pageant of American ambition and folly.
NEW YORK — In New York, this summer has lived up to its reputation as the silly season with a pageant of political theater comic enough to entertain even the most jaded tabloid sensibility.
It seemed like the setup for a program on national security but turned out to be something darker and more encompassing: a pageant of fear, as my colleague John Cassidy has noted, directed at a vast range of opponents, from the Islamic State to Black Lives Matter to the Libyan mobs that sacked the consulate in Benghazi.
The American Revolution is too often told as a glorious pageant of inevitable victories.
As Hardy writes of that idiosyncratic aluminum-spired skyscraper, "This iconic office building goes for broke, flaunting the exterior skin's independence as a costume pageant of pattern, gleaming profiles and symbolic panache.
