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Example sentences for: pageant

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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.
So customary have they become, in fact, that the pageant's decision comes at the time when bathing suits are no longer even considered particularly explosive.
Perhaps the pageant organizers could prune the readings from Ionesco and the madrigal recital, or they could finally stop forcing the contestants to defend their theses.
And that training still keeps the Miss America pageant in business, despite the occasional minor agitation that vainly urges it to stop the swimsuit competition.
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.