Sentence examples for hideous pageant from inspiring English sources
LONDON — Daily life in Britain over the past week might have morphed into a hideous pageant of riots, murder, fires and pillage, played out to a soundtrack of police and fire-truck sirens, but there is a certain inevitability to the English Premier League.
Yes dear, your having participated in that hideous, sexist anachronism beauty pageants, and your having played a children's school-recess game, certainly shows your hardscrabble work ethic, as does your lying around tanning and letting Natalie do peculiar things to you with hand tools while all about you, everyone else is actually working.
Two humans who must look attractive and even statuesque in person in an auditorium — a tall, fit man of 65 (Biden); a onetime beauty-pageant contestant of 44 (Sarah Palin) — turn protean, bizarre and sometimes hideous in high def.
The drama is presented in an elegant pageant of encounters between the two, showing the deepening of Elliott's anger as the king is betrayed to a cruel and hideous mob.
