I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.
Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.
Sun worship is fairly simple. There's no mystery, no miracles, no pageantry, no one asks for money, there are no songs to learn, and we don't have a special building where we all gather once a week to pare compare clothing.
I think that it's okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn't about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.
A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.
And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse
If peace. . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.
And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who are mystified into the notion that they are not political bondmen, by that great juggle of the ' English Constitution ' a thing of monopolies, and Church-craft, and sinecures, armorial hocus-pocus, primogeniture, and pageantry!
There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It's there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, and a lovely day. There's no mystery, no one asks for money, I don't have to dress up, and there's no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to "God" are all answered at about the same 50% rate.
You'll catch your death of cold. Clouseau: Yes, yes I probably will but. . . its all part of life's rich pageantry, you kneau.
O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks the great, With empty pageantries!
If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.
Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.
I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head.
