Examples of pageantry

• The gardens and lakes were prepared for the performance of elaborate pageantry and simulated naval battles.

• Because the focus was on the sound and not the visual image, the studio session demanded less pageantry than did public performance.

• Folk dances were the main spectacles that smaller towns could offer to royal visitors, and these were integrated into more elaborate civic pageantry as well.

• Sensory pageantry also ensures the persistence and transmission of the religious beliefs and practices it infuses.

• It was, for example, a major feature of much medieval pageantry, and it characterizes the modern carnival that involves performance.

• During the feast, not only was the urban space entirely transformed by pageantry, but the inhabitants collectively experienced a common exaltation, a great catharsis.

• It was also an attempt to democratise the area, to celebrate its history and pageantry and make it more welcoming.

• Although he used few illustrations in his texts, his descriptions of "charismatic centers" of power gave examples of how public displays conveyed meaning in pageantry, dress, art, and architecture.