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If a product is beautiful, why do you need all that pomp and circumstance?

Instead, there was a high school band striking up the Elgar march “Pomp and Circumstance.”

A glittering spectacle of British pomp and majesty it may be, but the clothes are rather tight, and the room is somewhat airless.

Compared to where we had just been, what we had so recently done, all the pomp and circumstance seemed ingratiatingly trivial.

We still seem driven by hype, by illusory health scares and benefits, by pomp, by the new and trendy, than by taste.

They buried her body in the Recollect convent, with the greatest pomp possible.

The date was fixed for the interment with military pomp, and immense crowds came out to witness the imposing procession.

The Cardinals started for the north, 'as the manner of the Romans is,' with great pomp and circumstance.

If he has painted vice and shown Satan in all his pomp, it is without the least complacence in the task.

All this pomp and circumstance was in their eyes no other than a distinctive mark of paganism.

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On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pomp, such as: fanfare, formality, grandeur, solemnity, splendor, and affectation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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