Sentence examples for intellectual pageant from inspiring English sources

The cast members, however, execute their duties with winning zeal, even if their characters are principally figures in an intellectual pageant.

THE COAST OF UTOPIA, PART THREE: SALVAGE In the third and weakest part of Tom Stoppard's epic pageant about nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals hatching revolution, Alexander Herzen (Brían F. O'Byrne), exiled in London, launches The Bell, a muckraking paper that taunts his motherland with censored news and radical argument, until serfdom is finally abolished, in 1861.

At the opening of Tom Stoppard's "Salvage" (at the Vivian Beaumont), the third and weakest part of his epic pageant about the nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals who hatched the notion of revolution, Alexander Herzen (Brían F. O'Byrne) sits in an armchair, suspended in tempest-tossed space, clutching the glove of his dead son.

Intellectual audacity and chaotic idiocy combine in Stoppard's particular showy farce form — a pageant of contradiction that broadcasts his stoicism and provides heat in a cooling universe.

"A pageant.

Children put on pageant.

Will pageant fever persist?

But the whole pageant vanished.

In "Miss Congeniality," Ms. Bergen plays a beauty pageant host, a high-strung narcissist who tells Sandra Bullock that her life has been dedicated to fighting "feminists, intellectuals and ugly women".

The pageant was abandoned.

"Pageant Place" reveals some.