Sentence examples for impressive ceremony from inspiring English sources

It was another wildly impressive ceremony.

She describes the impressive ceremony in a medieval church, where she sat with five other wives of men similarly honored.

When the thirteenth Dalai Lama died in December 1933, a Manchester Guardian editorial explained that he was 'not dead, but he has left his white and crimson palace at Lhasa and a fourteenth incarnation reigns in his stead.' Tenzin Gyatso was enthroned six years later, in an impressive ceremony in Lhasa, though he only formally took his position as Tibetan ruler aged 15, when China annexed Tibet.

The grand presidential palace was a spectacular setting for what was an impressive ceremony.

In 1955, British Pathé cameras captured one particularly impressive ceremony at which the cities of Belfast and Londonderry jointly awarded freedoms to Winston Churchill.

No amount of impressive ceremonies, cosmetic changes to the P.L.O.

The interior of the keep at Hedingham could certainly have hosted impressive ceremonies and events, but contained numerous flaws from a military perspective.

On March 19 , 1937 he laid in state for two hours in the main chamber of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in what was described as one of the "most impressive ceremonies ever beheld in Edmonton".

Many keeps made compromises to purely military utility: Norwich Castle included elaborate blind arcading on the outside of the building, in a Roman style, and appears to had a ceremonial entrance route; The interior of the keep at Hedingham could have hosted impressive ceremonies and events, but contained numerous flaws from a military perspective.

"For them the ecclesiastical Echmiadzin belongs irrevocably to the past, and even if the monastery and the cathedral are occasionally the scene of impressive ceremonies including the election of a new catholicos, this has little importance from the communist point of view," wrote Walter Kolarz in 1961.

I could talk about the highly impressive opening ceremony – the first I've seen live – or the shambolic performances of the nervous match officials in the England game, but let's concentrate on the rugby and Japan.