Examples of pomp

• I reserve my criticism for those who espouse federalism and all its works and pomps.

• Most accounts of pre-puberty marriage written by women, however, open with tales of childish pleasure at the pomp and grandeur of the wedding ceremony.

• No doubt much of the pomp and circumstance that used to surround the aristocratic life has gone with the wind.

• The pomp and ceremony were superb, but they were only the outward signs of something far more profound.

• Will anybody who knows the fitting ceremonial of other great countries contend that there is absurd extravagance or waste or pomp in this country?

• I see no particular reason why a small group of individuals should be allowed to live nowadays in almost feudal pomp in the country.

• No amount of civic pomp or local identity will compensate for lack of real powers and real responsibilities.

• On the great works announced with grand pomp and ceremony?

• I have grave doubts about creating a position with so much attendant pomp, publicity and salary.

• He did not do this by any display of pomp or power.

• His speech was full of pomp and platitudes and empty of content.

• At the very least, the western powers should agree that the military pomp and circumstance must go.

• To have all this pomp and circumstance about being associated with a board of governors seems silly.

• They were all absolutely first-class; they were all dignified; they all had a certain amount of pomp.

• Market forces, of which competition is just one, deny us fat living, fat profits, pomp and ceremony and status.