"The United Kingdom remains a partner of the Union, but by necessity it will pay the consequences, because that is the choice it has made," French President François Hollande said Saturday at a pomp-filled ceremony in Rome marking the 60th anniversary of the treaty that laid the foundation for the European Union.
Czechs and world leaders have paid an emotional tribute to Václav Havel at a pomp-filled funeral ceremony, ending a week of public grief and nostalgia over the death of the dissident playwright who led the 1989 revolution that ended four decades of communist rule.
He fired as President Chirac, riding in an open-top jeep just tens of metres away, was reviewing troops at the start of a pomp-filled military parade in Paris to celebrate Bastille Day.
Now there he was in Ireland, at the center of a pomp-filled ceremony in Dublin's city hall.
Alma, on doctors' orders, was absent, but among the mourners at a relatively pomp-free funeral were Arnold Schoenberg (whose wreath described Mahler as "the holy Gustav Mahler"), Bruno Walter, Alfred Roller, the Secessionist painter Gustav Klimt, and representatives from many of the great European opera houses.
Some people chafe at any pomp, no matter how well intentioned, while others do not have to visit a 16-acre hole to learn about voids.
If the main floor at the V & A celebrates pomp, the upper area is a revelation — not least because a false ceiling has been removed to reveal the museum's original giant dome.
The whole idea was a cackling jab at the pomp and officiousness Scialabba himself so utterly lacks.
Robert J. Thomson, managing editor of The Journal, poked a little fun at the pomp, saying, "This being convention season, histrionics are the order of the day".
A bar alongside, El Crucero (The Crossing), with a cartoon of Che as a steam engine painted on its outside wall, seems to be a wry dig at the pomp of it all.
The humour of the Carry On films is perhaps best described as plebian, a continuous outpouring of derision at class pomp and pretension.
