| She plans to continue competing in pageants and hopes to contend for Miss Virginia again. |
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| They infiltrated the scary netherworlds of beauty pageants, fashion shoots and ice shows. |
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| The aspiring lawyer and dean's list student has been competing in pageants since childhood. |
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| In the countryside, religious festivals, processions, and pageants take place throughout the year. |
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| A fusion of pageants, marching bands, pomp, ceremony and celebration resurrected the spirit of St Patrick's Day in Dublin yesterday. |
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| There, pageants and performances could be presented against the authentic background of Clifford's Tower and the Castle Museum buildings. |
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| They have produced full-scale scripted plays, but their outdoor pageants are the breathtaking highlight of the Public Dreams year. |
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| After a 54-year absence, beauty contests are making a comeback in China now that the government has finally lifted its ban on such pageants. |
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| It's a shame that we don't have pageants and parades for our patron saint's day as they do in other countries. |
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| The play tears a strip off beauty pageants, satirizing their supermodel-thin take on what qualifies as beauty. |
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| 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. |
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| Over summer there are loads of activities, from fairs to markets, surf carnivals to beauty pageants, there's even a photographic competition. |
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| Atlantic City officials say it's a sad day, but they won't fight the Miss America pageants decision to seek greener pastures. |
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| Privilège also tailor made of sumptuous wedding tiaras and crowns intended for the winners of beauty pageants. |
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| Some friends saw JonBenet's bedwetting and other problems with toilet training as a protest against the pressure of the pageants. |
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| I miss the days of putting on Christmas plays and pageants for the masses who would huddle in gymnasiums or church pews just to see frightened little kids put on a show. |
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| At large events, such as pageants, the men wear their insignia of wealth and riches: a short or long sword and a pouch with a silver lock. |
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| Generally speaking, when one thinks of pageants, one thinks of above average, attractive young women, maybe models, seeking fame and fortune. |
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| Like all inaugural pageants, this one, with its parade and balls and tacky souvenirs, is satisfying in each of us an atavistic love of kingliness. |
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| However, for the organisers, contestants like Laura and those like her are a Godsend, because to say that beauty pageants are a magnet for criticism is an understatement. |
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| Of course, other recent royal pageants and spectacles have been something of a mixed bag, economically speaking. |
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| Since the 1920s, beauty pageants have been centered on these superficial qualities. |
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| Wanamaker's was known for its stained-glass windows, elaborate store displays, and spectacles including organ concerts, pageants, and storybook characters in show windows. |
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| It doesn't have to be a local person, but maybe someone in the state pageants. |
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| With pageants, plays, processions and al fresco films plus wizards, workshops and walks, getting into the mood with some local music, food and drink will be easy. |
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| I found Clinton's guest spot rigid, discordant with the show's erratic rhythms, as these sorts of pageants always are. |
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| Blocking of major city roads during peak hours and uninhibited use of loud speakers and other accessories for the pageants have raised a hue and cry among the public. |
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| Dublin's St Patrick's Festival parade takes place from noon on Wednesday when 3,500 performers will thrill spectators with a stream of ingeniously designed pageants. |
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| Then there are those killjoys who worry that all beauty pageants worsen the shallowness, vacuity, vapidity and narcissism of today's youth. |
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| As for seasonal entertainment, there are countless productions of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ballet, school holiday pageants, and carolers everywhere. |
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| Today in Germany, the traditional costumes can only be seen in pageants. |
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| Beauty pageants are supposed to be Cinderella tales, where at the grand finale the queen sobs tears of joy while the losers hug her valiantly. |
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| Please note, we do not sponsor individuals, books, film productions, fashion shows, extreme sports, beauty pageants, motor-sports, religious or political groups, or conferences. |
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| When James came to the English throne, some elaborate pageants were staged. |
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| Police and residents are often on a first-name basis, and officers regularly participate in local events like fishing derbies, sports tournaments and community pageants. |
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| Since she was 19, she has been competing in beauty pageants, according to Las Vegas Weekly. |
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| The Binibining Pilipinas determines the Philippine representatives to various international beauty pageants. |
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| But after realising black eyes and broken nails were not compatible with beauty pageants, Lara does not compete any more. |
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| Also extant are two pageants from a New Testament cycle acted at Coventry and one pageant each from Norwich and Newcastle upon Tyne. |
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| Its reliefs depicted the imperial pageants of the praetorians, the Vestals, and the citizenry of Rome. |
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| And yet notwithstanding we must haue these goodly pageants played vpon the sabaoth day because there are no mo daies in the week. |
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| State-controlled media, bolstered by slick Western public-relations firms retained by princely rulers, tout such exercises as pageants of modernising progress. |
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| These planned activities allow isolated seniors in the community to participate in pageants, arts and crafts, poetry readings, and even Tai-chi demonstrations. |
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| In many countries, tobacco companies are courting women's groups through funding of domestic violence shelters, promoting beauty pageants and entertainment events. |
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| The Committee issued a forty-eight page pamphlet, illustrated in colour, containing suggestions for historical pageants, floats and tableaux for the guidance bibliography of Canadian history. |
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| Louis Olivier Armstrong, who produced several other pageants at the time, was among those who participated in the organization of the tercentenary pageants. |
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| These pageants were presented each summer for many decades. |
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| As pageants go, this one was short and friendly in a fringey, attitudinous way. |
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| A cult grew around her which was celebrated in the portraits, pageants, and literature of the day. |
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| Except for the purpose of vain pageants, designed to aucupate benefices, by cajoling the patrons, the University of Oxford has long ceased to exist. |
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| Parades and pageants are the heart of the Carnaval festivities. |
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| The season of beauty queen pageants has kicked off with the announcement of first ever beauty queen winner of Miss International 2014 contest on Tuesday. |
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