Sentence examples for dramatic pageant from inspiring English sources

The entire concept cries out to be experienced as a living, dramatic pageant in which the visual energy complements the musical energy.

The celebrations, with public holidays giving Britons a four-day break, included a dramatic pageant of 1,000 vessels on the River Thames through London on Sunday, a concert outside Buckingham Palace on Monday and a day of reverence and pageantry on Tuesday.

Lubitsch, who was born in Berlin in 1892, started directing movies in his early twenties and displayed an exquisitely ribald and inventive comic sensibility in such productions as "The Oyster Princess," but he was most famous for his spectacular dramatic pageants (such as "The Loves of Pharaoh").

Britain has a long and singular tradition of local arts activity, from amateur dramatic societies, choirs and pageants, to the dozens of Fun Palaces that sprang up when Stella Duffy attempted to resurrect Joan Littlewood's visionary concept of a space where communities could gather to celebrate their own culture and creativity.

It reaches the emotional level of a dramatic reading at a beauty pageant (1 20).

Big reason for its appeal: a slew of cameos from, or references to, YouTube videos past — including the "Leave Britney alone" guy, that South Carolina teen pageant contestant and a certain dramatic rodent:.

In some pageants, the staged presentation or dramatic storytelling is completely preeminent over simple spectacle and crowd-pleasing display.

Nor should it: this is not a beauty pageant but a dramatis personae at times very dramatic.

Nor should it: this is not a beauty pageant but a dramatis personae — at times very dramatic.

"The Story of the Jews" is a pageant of microhistories, told in an engaging and dramatic style, which some novelist or playwright ought to plunder for material, the way Shakespeare used Holinshed's Chronicles.

The Mormon Church's annual pageant is a big, flashy spectacle complete with pyrotechnics and dramatic fight scenes.