Sentence examples for not pomp from inspiring English sources

Tuesday's tableau was a nod to modern stagecraft — Pampers, not pomp.

As the anthropologist Clifford Geertz observed, in a rather different context, "power served pomp, not pomp power".

Roberts' account quotes Smith as predicting numerous wars involving Great Britain, France, Russia, China, and other countries, and saying that the European nobility "knows that [Mormonism] is true, but it has not pomp enough, and grandeur and influence for them to yet embrace it".

Robot Boy – featuring two drum kits – induces the fervour of Queen's Radio Ga Ga at Live Aid; other tracks could be Muse if they'd come from metal and not pomp-rock; Iridescent is simply a (gulp) beautiful song.

He did that not with pomp, but through attention to the lesser characters and smaller lives.

A friend of mine from England told me that, to her, the most amazing thing about Charles and Di's wedding was not the pomp, the pageantry or how incredibly creased the bride's gown got in the carriage.

But it's not all pomp and circumstance here: this is Austin, and Bar Congress does know how to kick back and relax, as evidenced by seasonal series like the summer's Tiki Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes".

The glory of Britain isn't its pomp, but its language and its ideals.

Today formality doesn't mean pomp and circumstance, but neither should it be lumps of bad taffeta.

She wasn't a pomp and circumstance person; she was straight and plain, but she was proud".