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Think of a sentence where the use of the word panoply doesn't come off as pretentious and contrived.
I can't.
cheers
Chris Maunder
modified 19-Oct-15 7:07am.
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Could this be due to the fact that your statement lacks the full panoply of panoplieness? 
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From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoply[^]:
"Thus "panoply" refers to the full armour of a hoplite or heavy-armed soldier, i.e. the shield, breastplate, helmet and greaves, together with the sword and lance."
IMO it's not contrived, but is it pretentious?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I ordered a batman panoply for Christmas.
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Pa-No-Ply, Pa-No-Pla life goes on brah
La la how the life goes on
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"I filled my dish with small pieces of layered wood that had been glued together, and served my pan o' ply for dinner."
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Gold.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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We didn't have monopoly, so we played panoply, but, then we had a terrible argument about whether or not we both committed suicide after the last time we played, since that ended in a draw.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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If anything, I learned a new word. Thanks. 
I am fairly certain, I will have no need for it, for the remainder of my life. 
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Panoply, the Greek Mythology version of the old standard.
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Panoply is how a two year old would pronounce Penelope.
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"The use of panoply comes across as pretentious and contrived."
There you go.
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iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Panoply.
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I got a collection of skillets at the house and when I stack em up they make a panoply.
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I tried, I really did. However all I could come up with was a panoply of contrived and pretentious sounding sentences from my cornucopia of best practise sentences.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Asked my dad to get me a new flag, saw him comming towards me and shoutet: "Pa no ply of Mexico, i wanted the one of Canada" !
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Chris Maunder wrote: Think of a sentence where the use of the word panoply doesn't come off as pretentious and contrived.
There is a panoply of poo in my cat's litter box. Time to clean it!
Marc
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By far the best use of the word in a sentence. +24 to you, sir.
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Apple is attempting to have a full panoply of devices; which will be collectively known as an iPanoplytm.
There! Does it really matter if it is true? ..and isn't it?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Codeproject contains a panoply of code.
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Well, your post generated a panoply of responses.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Think of a sentence where the use of the word panoply doesn't come off as pretentious and contrived.
^
is it?
it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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