Sentence examples for official pomp from inspiring English sources

Not if you've seen how he dismisses official pomp and smugness in "Casablanca".

In a telling moment yesterday amid the official pomp, the shadow of Sept. 11, 2001, showed itself.

Nobody wrote down the unofficial songs, the jokes or the slang, and veterans find it hard to disinter them from memories overlaid with decades of official pomp and invention.

They will be helped by the official pomp that surrounds such events, with presidents Obama, Clinton, Carter and HW Bush all due to give speeches highlighting the positive aspects of the 43rd presidency.

The Via has a slightly exasperating way of showing up like this, presenting itself in all its official pomp just at the point you feel that it has abandoned you forever.

The country that has dressed the anniversary in the most official pomp and gravity has been the Dominican Republic, which with Haiti, occupies the island Columbus christened Hispaniola-the first whole territory subdued and settled by the fortune hunters from Spain.

So far he has won praise by calling for China's constitutional protections to be put in effect, ordering officials to cut pomp and setting in motion an anticorruption campaign.

Against a backdrop of abandoned cranes and imported pomp, officials and Staten Island residents gathered for the anniversary of the closing of the notorious Fresh Kills landfill, with its future still hard to envision.

Mr. Hollande had a busy day of pomp and official business.

And today, in what the Palestinian Authority considers a blessing on its quest for independence, the pope entered its territory with the full pomp of an official visit.

The two day visit of Israel's prime minister to the UK is not at the invitation of the Queen and will therefore not be accorded the pomp of an official state visit.