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Example sentences for: pageant

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Recently, the pageant has got itself into trouble by implicitly acknowledging this truth about itself.
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.
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.
And then, after admiring all the pretty girls on local beaches, you topped it off by watching the Miss America pageant and staring at the prettiest girls in the whole country, parading around in their bathing suits on TV instead of the beach.
The dining room has a magnificent cedarwood coffered ceiling from a Bologna monastery, and is decorated with the flags from the Sienna palio pageant.