| In the countryside, religious festivals, processions, and pageants take place throughout the year. |
| The idea of an art exhibition on the theme of beauty pageants might seem odd at first, but in Venezuela beauty queens are a national obsession. |
| She plans to continue competing in pageants and hopes to contend for Miss Virginia again. |
| The play tears a strip off beauty pageants, satirizing their supermodel-thin take on what qualifies as beauty. |
| Over summer there are loads of activities, from fairs to markets, surf carnivals to beauty pageants, there's even a photographic competition. |
| A fusion of pageants, marching bands, pomp, ceremony and celebration resurrected the spirit of St Patrick's Day in Dublin yesterday. |
