Purple was very tall and spoke with great pomp: "I am the color of royalty and power." Kings, chiefs and bishops have always chosen me for I am the sign of authority and wisdom.
A decade ago, Moscow night life was synonymous with a certain brand of over-the-top opulence, all '80s pomp and' 90s pout.
In March of this year Mr Netanyahu was humiliated during a White House meeting devoid of the customary pomp.
Patriotic bunting as a frigid display of archaic pomp?
Owing to the small size of the mausoleum chapel, the mosaics do not create the impression of vain, cold pomp.
In 2006, at the height of his pomp as chancellor, Gordon Brown used his annual Mansion House speech to the City's great and good to extol the virtues of London's financial district.
Vanity, it may be, chose to mortify itself, by putting on, for ceremonials of pomp and state, the garments that had been wrought by her sinful hands.
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