Sentence examples for pageant down from inspiring English sources

Soon after, young Godiva will be making her second appearance in time to lead the lively People's Pageant down to Bancroft Gardens.

The department's data point out that parades were far more common in earlier decades, when heads of state and foreign monarchs were often treated to a pageant down the Canyon of Heroes.

The first Royal Jubilee bell has been cast, ahead of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee pageant down the Thames on 3rd June.

With any luck you can cut that three-hour pageant down to fifteen minutes.

Then, as the pageant died down and we trailed our way back to the car, our feet trampling the grass beneath us, we'd pass some blank-faced people holding up pieces of paper.

Remember that auditorium scene in "A Charlie Brown Christmas" when the pageant rehearsal breaks down, and all bets are off?

A spoof of theater through the ages — from Sophocles to "A Chorus Line" — "You, Nero" makes lively sport of contemporary American culture, as Ms. Freed imagines the mincing Nero (a magnificent Danny Scheie — but Nathan Lane might want to call his agent now) commissioning an image-primping pageant from a down-on-his-luck dramatist.

Last week, the Miss America Organization announced that after a one-year reign as host of the pageant, Wayne Brady will step down and be succeeded by Tom Bergeron, the current host of "America's Funniest Home Videos".

On Tuesday, for example, Fox is airing "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" in which 50 female contestants will be whittled down, beauty pageant style, to five finalists, all in wedding gowns, one of whom will be proposed to and married on the air, live, by a willing millionaire.

After all, the pageant has faced down sneers and frowns and protests about it demeaning women.

In one account, a mother disrupted a rehearsal for a Christmas pageant by running down the center aisle waving her son's letter of acceptance.