Dressed in a white terno with multicarat diamond teardrop earrings, three diamond-studded bracelets and a two-foot diamond necklace, she presided under highpowered movie lights with her husband, President Ferdinand E. Marcos, over a medieval pageant complete with procession of native dancers, beauty queens and religious floats carrying bejeweled figures of the infant Jesus.
Interior walls were plastered and magnificently painted with ritual processions of gods and various mythological narratives.
Protest leaders have kept the city on edge for the past three weeks with unpredictable processions of motorcycles and pickup trucks.
This explains the "Phantom of the Opera" electronic organ chords at beginning and end, and makes the succeeding performances into one big procession, interposed with actual processions of all the performers.
The listener is thrown into the middle of a Lenten street festival, with three processions of singers converging in an antiphonal clamor.
Wozzeck's hallucinatory memories of war blend nightmarishly with the processions of coffins draped in union flags, and the tawdry world of sexual compulsion that surrounds him.
Some of the small number of tragedies that were staged were filled out with long processions of animals, gaudy costumes, and elaborate effects, all emphasizing the hollowness of both theatre and audience.
You also stumble upon a few Pardon festivals which offer an equal dose of culture, with long processions of traditionally dressed locals honouring the local patron saint.
In parts of Southern India, the streets are filled with large processions of the Goddess Chamundeshwari (another form of Shakti) mounted on beautifully decorated elephants.
Ceremonies have been marked with processions, sacrifices, sprinklings of blood and water, and wide participation by rulers, priests, and other dignitaries who used the mason's trowel, often made of gold or silver.
