Sentence examples for scant ceremony from inspiring English sources
The most audacious sight gag, the spontaneous shattering of a glass door, is done with scant ceremony, and the joke then becomes the doorman's attempts to carry on as if the door were intact.
But when the King dispatched his niece, smeared in butter and red ochre, to his guest's tent to serve as a wife for the night, Galton, wearing his one clean suit of white linen, found the naked princess "as capable of leaving a mark on anything she touched as a well-inked printer's roller... so I had her ejected with scant ceremony".
For example, in the Andaman Islands, adults were mourned as a loss to the society, while the corpses of young children and infirm elderly people were disposed of with scant ceremony.
As Tom Brokaw has noted, only 10 years ago the 50th anniversary ceremonies at Pearl Harbor received scant attention; he was the only TV anchor there.
If Sunday's Tonys were a landmark night for black actors, the awards ceremony inevitably pointed up the scant Broadway roles for Hispanic, Asian and other actors who are not white or black.
However, in a sign of scant sympathy for the unappreciative reaction to the money, there was no signing ceremony.
The funeral ceremony was broadcast live on major television news channels, some of which had been criticized for their scant coverage of last June's unrest.
