Word: pomp
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...Class Day speaker is chosen by a subcommittee of the Senior Class Committee, and the day has traditionally been celebrated as a festive, informal day for graduating seniors, in contrast to the formal pomp and circumstance of the following day’s Commencement...
...finally earned the framed piece of paper representing the best education available. The speeches and writings that surrounded this event were filled with endless messages of hope, repetitive retrospection, and overstretched metaphors. Many of us were reduced to sobbing shells of human beings, but some of us endured the pomp and circumstance and lived to tell the tale...
...Brown's prize was certain; his campaign would turn into a cross-country victory tour. Yet he arrived at the London launch venue not in pomp and splendor but by crowded Tube train. "There was a classic British silence on board. Nobody stared," says Tom Stoddart, a photographer who traveled with Brown for Time, exclusively chronicling 10 days in his life as Prime Minister-in-waiting. Brown, too, acted as if this were a trip like any other, averting his gaze from a newspaper across the aisle emblazoned with his own unsmiling face...
...elected to Britain's House of Commons in 1983, he was just 30, the Labour Party's youngest M.P. Labour had just fought and lost a disastrous election campaign on a far-left platform, and Margaret Thatcher, fresh from her victory in the Falklands War, was in her pomp. The opposition to Thatcher was limited to a few ancient warhorses and a handful of bright young things. Blair, boyish Blair, quickly became one of the best of the breed...
...candidates have to be approved by the ruling Communist Party, meaning that despite the occasional hiccup, the NPC passes laws required by the Party leadership. Still, although it's an exercise in pretend democracy - or maybe precisely because it is that - China's government marks the occasion with considerable pomp and ceremony, scores of scarlet banners rippling in the breeze over Tiananmen Square, along with lots of marching guards, motorcades and blanket coverage in the state-controlled media...