The phrase "ceremonial speech" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to a formal speech, usually given at an event of particular importance or significance. For example: "The mayor delivered an inspiring ceremonial speech to commemorate the city's centennial anniversary."
After hearing out the president's ceremonial speech, a local think-tank called for him to use his second term to seek reconciliation with the Tamil minority.
Norman Mailer treats of the momentary participation of the Kennedy White House in public support for the arts, and of the moment when Lewis Mumford broke all the rules by devoting a supposedly ceremonial speech to a passionate condemnation of the Vietnam War.
In a ceremonial speech, its commander, William Adama Edward James Olmoss), departs from his text and talks about the high cost of wearing a uniform; sometimes it's too high, he says, thinking of his son Zak, a military pilot who died a couple of years earlier, and of the even higher price that mankind has paid for playing God and inventing Cylons in the first place.
This Saturday, August 4, Maduro was interrupted in the middle of a ceremonial speech.
Despite this new mess, the reigning monarch delivered a ceremonial speech from her golden throne in the House of Lords, the British parliament's unelected second chamber, with the lighting turned up to heighten her dramatic entrance.
For Mr. Arain will not be donning the gold-trimmed robe of chancellor or assuming duties that include, according to the university, acting as an arbiter in certain university disputes, presiding at official ceremonies and making ceremonial speeches in Latin.
Early in the presidency, Mr. Obama would sometimes spend hours polishing ceremonial speeches, like one for Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial; now, the president has a more finely honed sense of how to use his precious time, said Adam Frankel, a former speechwriter.
The policy statement, made in a speech Wednesday to a Soviet‐American audience in New York, came at a time when officials and diplomats were seekipg ways of using the 25th‐anniversary year of the United Nations for something more than ceremonial speeches.
The 12 steps in front of City Hall retain their function as the place where mayors are sworn in, ceremonial speeches made, distinguished visitors receive the key to the city, heroes of the fire and police departments are awarded medals and baseball heroes, like the Mayor's Yankees, are honored.
Ceremonial speeches and political appeals have had diminishing impact on changing the culture of education in this respect.
