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Example sentences for: pageant

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Everybody knows that the pageant is about America's Sweetheart, the girl whose earnest desire to do good in the world and do well in her work is most purely embodied in her lovely face and perfect figure.
For while a pageant princess is merely tacky, a murdered pageant princess takes her place in the illustrious line of pretty young girls in what, pace multiculturalists, we might call our collective lore, to meet, or at least be threatened with, a gruesome end.
Facing sinking ratings, the producers of the Miss America pageant last week announced a change in format, to make the telecast more entertaining for the home audience.
It's as if he conceived The Phantom Menace as a Japanese No pageant and has purposely deadened his actors, directing them to stand stiffly in the dead center of the screen against matte paintings of space or some futuristic metropolis and deliver lines alternately formal or bemusing.
Drop Dead Gorgeous was written by a former Minnesota Miss Teen runner-up, but despite this insider angle, it offers nothing that wasn't done better in 1975's Smile . (Click here to find out what the Pageant News Bureau thought of the film.)