How To Use Pomp In A Sentence

Then there are the ruins of Dura-Europos, a Parthian caravan center founded in 300 B.C., halfway between Syria and Mesopotamia and known as the "Pompeii of the East.
Hunt was also to write that he and Millais used to stand in front of the Raphael cartoons (then at Hampton Court) and judge them fearlessly, also that they condemned Raphael's Transfiguration (which they had never seen) 'for its grandiose disregard of the simplicity of truth, the pompous posturing of the Apostles, and the unspiritual attitudinising of the Saviour.' Cosa Nostra
He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away.
The prince's manner was informal,(sentence dictionary) without a trace of pomposity.
There is also a tour of Pompeii that shows how the town looked before the volcano eruption. The Sun

I was accused of being stiff, spoiled, pompous, upper crusted, bitter, angry, negative, imbecilic, and even crazy.
Dio Cassius can scarcely be mistaken when he says that Tyre and Sidon were "enslaved" -- i.e. deprived of freedom -- by Augustus, [14477] who must certainly have revoked the privilege originally granted by Pompey. History of Phoenicia
Music critics have often poured scorn on progressive rock for being boring, pompous and pretentious. Times, Sunday Times
Note, Scorners that laugh at what they see and hear that is above their capacity, are not proper witnesses of the wonderful works of Christ, the glory of which lies not in pomp, but in power. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
Farther along they spied calami, adversi, frail, and pomposi, which were worse, so they gave up on their search for anything better. Faun & Games
A portrait of Barbara Barrett-Lennard, copied from a miniature after Thomas Hudson, is supported by her mourning parents in a portrait by Pompeo Batoni.
He's a pompous old prig who's totally incapable of taking a joke.
The _Pompilidæ_ are species of great beauty, some closely resembling those of Australia in the banding and maculation of their wings; amongst the _Vespidæ_ will be found some of the most elegant and beautiful forms in the whole of that protean family of Hymenoptera. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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After I had observed every flower, and listened to a disquisition on every plant, I was permitted to depart; but first, with great pomp, he plucked a polyanthus and presented it to me, as one conferring a prodigious favour. Agnes Grey
Those fans who have defended Diamond against charges of pomposity will really love this record.
The level I am talking about is also hypnagogic & hypnopompic, because sleep brings on the same feeling of hypnosis.
It could be viewed as old-style, Communist pomp and ceremony aimed at boosting the morale and devotion of the people.
This was Gerard's account of the Cucumber, while of the Cucumber Pompion, which was evidently our Vegetable Marrow, and of which he has described and figured the variety which we now call the Custard Marrow, he says, "it maketh a man apt and ready to fall into the disease called the colericke passion, and of some the felonie. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
With two friends, Polak watched German authorities plant the tree with great pomp - part of an effort to "Germanize" the town, he said. Thestar.com - Home Page
The Prime Minister was received with all the traditional pomp and ceremony that is laid on for visiting heads of government.
His sense of humour, always in evidence, made it impossible for him to seem pompous or self-important, and he never attempted to disguise his own fallibility as a human being.
Alvin Crawford and John Criter are hilarious as Falstaff's sidekicks, but Franco Pomponi's voice needs greater heft to make Ford's frequent rages comic.
I'm all for good satire, the sharp and perceptive deflating of pretense, pompousness or deceit.
Tonight, C had the gall to send a young junior, a pompous little ass called Maitland-Wood, to ask if I would reconsider. Final Resting Place of The Pen
Unfortunately it's weighted down with accretion upon accretion of utterly self-indulgent pomposity.
Dora is engaged to a pompous young bigwig of local fascist society, to the evident delight of her ambitious mother.
Why, there, if a college student comes downtown with a flareback coat and heart-shaped trousers and one of those nifty little pompadour hats that are brushed back from the brow to give the brains a chance to grow, they arrest him for collecting a crowd and disturbing traffic. At Good Old Siwash
These may not address their Majesties, but they may stare; nor will it be contested that the attentive circular eyes of the humble domestic creatures are an embellishment to Royal pomp and grandeur, such truly as should one day gain for them an inweaving and figurement -- in the place of bees, ermine tufts, and their various present decorations -- upon the august great robes back-flowing and foaming over the gaspy page-boys. The Egoist
Guvernul imprimă bani, prevede sistemul sociale stabile, sistemul de piaţă stabilă, impune reguli de joc echitabile, asigură bănci, şi aşa mai departe. venituri din muncă datorează guvernamentale pentru asigurarea unui sistem stabil şi furnizarea de servicii sociale Capitalismul este incapabil de a furniza, cum ar fi poliţia, drumuri, pompieri, şi aşa mai departe. Ideonexus.com »2004» August
Le Mercier was a pickthank, angling after the favor of La Pompadour, -- a pretentious knave, as hollow as one of his own mortars. The Golden Dog
There is, of course, no factual connection between the two - if anything, the zealot opposes him and all his works and pomps.
Like Bush, he is widely regarded as a philistine and intellectually limited man, whose pomposity and sense of self-importance are exceeded only by his provincialism.
I grandthinked after his obras after another time about the itch in his egondoom he was legging boldylugged from some pulversporochs and lyoking for a stool-eazy for to nemesisplotsch allafranka and for to salubrate himself with an ultradungs heavenly mass at his base by a suprime pomp-ship chorams the perished popes, the reverend and allaverred cromlecks, and when I heard his lewdbrogue reciping his cheap cheateary gospeds to sintry and santry and sentry and suntry I thought he was only haftara having afterhis brokeforths but be the homely Churopodvas I no sooner seen aghist of his frighte-ousness then I was bibbering with vear a few versets off fooling for fjorg for my fifth foot. Finnegans Wake
But at Rediscovering Pompeii there are enough screens to satisfy demand, and a technician is in regular attendance.
A few weeks since, the young nobleman would have watched in admiration all that magnificent heraldry of the pomp of the storm.
NEW YORK — A bobbing little pompom put on a peak performance at the Westminster Kennel Club. Westminster Best In Show 2012: Malachy The Pekingese Wins Dog Competition
The bill would add five lysosomol storage diseases to the newborn screening panel: Pompe disease or acid maltase deficiency; Krabbe disease or globoid cell leukodystrophy; Gaucher's disease; Niemann-Pick disease; and Fabry disease. Clovis News Journal : News
This week's pompous, poncey, high-handed antics could pique the infamous Tauran temper, impelling you to channel that feisty, fiery Hawaiian volcano deity Pele, who loves to erupt in Vesuvian pyrotechnics.
We feel the man's pomposity and age, taste the heat and sweat of his desperation in the grip of beauty and decay. Times, Sunday Times
What a refreshing change to the pomp and privilege that usually surrounds the Royal Family. The Sun
-- In Act Two, a immature Pompey is in fighting behind opposite a triumvirate of Octavius, Antony as good as Lepidus, fervent to rehabilitate a reputation of his father, once cheered by a Roman mob, killed in conflict by Julius Caesar. Archive 2009-11-01
Including the pompous local police commissaire; the unflappable intelligence officer from France; the slimy representative of the international oil cartel; and the personages - intelligence, governmental, and clerical of the remnants of the civilian oligarchy; as well as many others, including the Doctor's lover, a Hapsburg We Have All Been Disgraced By Corruption, A Review of Eric Ambler's Doctor Frigo
Cicero was out of Rome during the eighteen months preceding the outbreak of the Civil War, being selected under regulations following Pompey's lex de provinciis.
Pompey had laid out open chests on glistening display that morning which contained seventy-five million silver drachmae: more than the annual tax revenue of the entire Roman world. CONSPIRATA
Pompeii is one of Italy's prime tourist attractions.
And I had come to be oppressed by what seemed to me the futility of art -- a pompous legerdemain, a consummate charlatanry that deceived not only its devotees but its practitioners. CHAPTER II
His hair was combed back into a perfect ducktail, and on top two tiny curls fell from his pomp.
Establishment pomposities with a barb, are grossly underestimating his talent, intellect and capacity for sheer graft. Times, Sunday Times
But at Rediscovering Pompeii there are enough screens to satisfy demand, and a technician is in regular attendance.
Perhaps it's his glaring vanity - it is surely disingenuous for a man in his sixties to sport such a pompadour and pretend that he doesn't want it noticed.
About fifty murals depicting Narcissus survive from Pompeii alone.
That's because people with Pompe disease, also called acid maltase deficiency, don't produce an enzyme that breaks down glycogen, a sugar stored in the body's muscle cells. TimesOnline: Home RSS feed
Salmon, tuna, swordfish, mackerel, sardines, anchovies, pompano, bluefish - they're forgiving in the kitchen and big enough to take on some bigger beers.
Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow.
The sole saving grace of the film is Jemaine Clement (of Flight of the Conchords fame) as Ronald Chevalier, a pompous author of bad sci-fi novels who is ironically the only character to not reach unbearable levels of annoyingness. This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: 2012, Where the Wild Things Are, Ponyo, and More | /Film
Amidst all that humbles and scathes; amidst all that shatters from their life its verdure, smites to the dust the pomp and summit of their pride, and in the very heart of existence writeth a sudden and "strange defeature," -- they stand erect, -- riven, not uprooted, -- a monument less of pity than of awe! The Disowned — Complete
The fact that so many people still wish Andie had ended up with her New Wave-ish, pompadoured best buddy speaks to how beloved and unforgettable Duckie turned out to be. Friday List: Ranking the John Hughes characters
Last month the judges -- bleary-eyed from reading 130 nominated books each -- attacked publishers for submitting works they called "portentous," "pretentious" and "pompous. Eyes On The Prize
Reinertsen is a pompous ass who ragged on him terribly in his doolie year—the label for the freshman hell-in-residence period at Doolittle Hall. Orbit
The neurologist thought Tim was suffering from muscular dystrophy, but when a muscle biopsy came back it was clear that Tim had acid maltase deficiency, also known as Pompe disease. Greatfallstribune.com - Local News
The crew went out again a week later and caught a 14.6 kilo cobia, a 7.1 kilo cobia and a lot of queen fish and pompanos.
Herculaneum, the twin city to Pompeii, suffered a similar fate but has proved more difficult to excavate.
Accipe, Pompei, deductum carmen ab illo debitor est uitae qui tibi, Sexte, suae. qui seu non prohibes a me tua nomina poni, accedet meritis haec quoque summa tuis; siue trahis uultus, equidem peccasse fatebor, 5 delicti tamen est causa probanda mei. non potuit mea mens quin esset grata teneri; sit precor officio non grauis ira pio. The Last Poems of Ovid
Jessica had gotten into her perky attitude, and was waving her green and white pompoms in the air even when they weren't doing a choreographed cheer.
The British reviews were cold and formal... The great Romantic critics had not appeared, to take the starch out of their pompous manners.
There was no sporting reference in that primitive debutant issue of 25 October 1961 – six corny homemade pages printed on yellow paper – but over the following half-century the magazine has significantly cast its wittily baleful eye over the prolix and self-important pomposities of modern professional sport and thank heaven for it. Fifty years of Private Eye's eccentric eye view of sport | Frank Keating
For the pretty 23-year-old used to be a rugby league cheerleader and regularly performed on the pitch with pompoms at home and away matches.
Now I slur my words and mangle the language with the best of them, though people close to me do still tease me for my tendency towards pomposity.
Poetry readings, film screenings and walking tours ushered in the launch with the pomp and fanfare of a royal wedding. Times, Sunday Times
But if you have an overly sensitive radar for cinematic pomp, stay clear.
The cheerleaders who were already occupying a big table in the center did the DSV cheer in their seats, waving their pompoms around noisily.
Thus the newspaper man, wearily certain that regardless of what he asks or how he asks it, he will hear for answers only the clumsy asininities behind which the personalities, leaders and sacred white cows pompously attitudinize, gets so that he mumbles a bit incoherently. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
While some tunes might suggest the hanging of the ten, others evoke sombrero-sporting mariachis and pompadoured teds, Martinis in the Boom-Boom Room or riding shotgun with Squinty Clint.
Yet, while magic had not lost its potency or usefulness, most of its solemn pomp and ceremonial value was long gone.
The crowd roared approval before departing content after another spectacular display of British pomp and pageantry. Times, Sunday Times
This last vilifying barb you offer in yet another comment when, having had the whole root of your hatred revealed in the posting of that email exchange, rather than actually give grounds for your risible concern with a purported conflict of interests, you continue your rancorous pillorying, not to mention the concomitant pompous self-aggrandisement. How Not to be a Writer
Communist Party and communist youth have won big political and organizational successes in the establishment of their policy, because the recent feat of the rescue of Comrades Pompeyo, Guillermo, and Teodoro has filled with enthusiasm and renewed energy all the communist militants of the country, and because, finally, the anarchist, adventurous policy of the antiparty group has demonstrated its inevitable failure and has enormously helped in the clarification of problems under discussion. LASO CLOSING SESSION
In the bishops they saw pomposity and rampant corruption, disdain for biblical teaching, and addiction to ceremony. Christianity Today
Break open the Pimms and get ready for five days of tradition, pomp and ceremony - and loads of rowing action.
It is as if we satisfy ourselves with shaking our pompoms and shouting ‘Gay Pride.’
Most neoclassical works based on the discoveries at Herculaneum and Pompeii were imitations of an art thought to be formally and morally superior to that of the eighteenth century.
I observed that his prose was turgid and his character pompous, which is correct on both counts.
And the people called Anthropomphagi which we call cannibals, live with human flesh. THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE, SOUTH AFRICA AND THE WORLD
Maidens with water-jars on their heads which might have been dug up at Pompeii; priests with broad hats and huge cloaks; sailors with blue shirts and red girdles; urchins who almost instinctively cry for a "soldo" and break into the Tarantella if you look at them; quiet, grave, farmer-peasants with the Phrygian cap; coral-fishers fresh from the African coast with tales of storm and tempest and the Madonna's help -- make up group after group of Caprese life as one looks idly on, a life not specially truthful perhaps or moral or high-minded, but sunny and pleasant and pretty enough, and harmonizing in its own genial way with the sunshine and beauty around. Stray Studies from England and Italy
I spent a week in Todi, and several days trapesing around Tuscany, Rome, Naples and Pompeii.
The first theme, a lickety-split series of parallel chords hopping up the keyboard, sounds like the giddy mockery of an older person's pomposity.
He speaks perfect English, eschews pomp and formality and uses the Autocue to deliver his speech with a professionalism that should make other politicians envious.
They had started to uncover the ancient city of Pompeii.
For the Bull Ring team, Brian Renouf had an 8-pound pompano and Jim Randall a 6-pound cobia, for a grand total of 288 pounds of fish landed for the day's tournament.
Homer an ancient writer affirmeth that, the world being diuided into Asia, Africa, and Europe is an Iland, which is likewise so reported by Strabo in his erst book of Cosmographie, Pomponius Mela in his third booke, Higinius, Solinus, with others. The Worldes Hydrographical Discription
As an excuse, it manages to be simultaneously vague, slightly pompous and entirely meaningless. Times, Sunday Times
He liked to be rather pompous. Times, Sunday Times
The picture is best when it makes fun of the pompous self-importance of spooks, and dares to portray the political and military establishment as an empire of idiots.
She held up a dark purple hoodie with pompoms on the ties.
I am not talking in this arrogant and pompous manner. Times, Sunday Times
I am not talking in this arrogant and pompous manner. Times, Sunday Times
In one rounded gallery, the walls are entirely Pompeian red, which sets off the second-century white-marble Roman sculptures of the Muses, brought to Spain in the early 18th century by Philip V and a highlight of the museum's sculpture collection. Rethinking the Prado:
To set poetry to drama makes the verse pompous and pretentious. Times, Sunday Times
Then I realised that was a bit pompous. Times, Sunday Times
As the co-founder of legendary graphic design studio Push Pin, he was a prime mover in deflating the pomposity of modernism and ushering in the freer, more whimsical visual styles that defined the ’60s and ’70s. Book Review: Seymour : Scrubbles.net
Sam Waterston has been doing his high-sniffy rectitudinous grandstanding for so long it's as if he expects some soft of Atticus Finch statue; Elisabeth Rohm is no worse than Angie Harmon, but no better; and Fred Thompson is a pompous pork chop whose cliched Southern homilies wouldn't be listened to seriously for ten seconds in NY (whereas Steven Hill, with his crusty cut-the-crap irritability and desire to get out of the office before bad news could follow, was the authentic article). New Guy in Town: James Wolcott
There are the color-coded pompoms worn on caps designating the 16 branches of the service in 1851.
The crowd roared approval before departing content after another spectacular display of British pomp and pageantry. Times, Sunday Times
He's only 15, but thinks like his dad, a pompous self-important academic.
A style of male dress most often seen in the United States is the fustanella, a full, white pleated skirt; a black and gold jacket; a red flat fez with a large tassel (puskel); and shoes with black pompoms.
Schools of snappers and pompano blotted out the sparkling sun, while trevally and fusiliers whipped about in a frenzy.
Don't go getting the impression that Demonstration is at all pompous or portentous, though.
These will not be numbered among the devotees of Waugh, and probably struggle with pompousness, may be cumbrous or even clumsy from time to time. If I Could Have a Conversation about It: Decline and Fall « Unknowing
His hair is a chestnut pompadour and he has a straggly moustache. Times, Sunday Times
He is arrogant, pompous, never misses a chance to show off his superiority, and drinks to excess.
I feel pretty good about teaching the chants and cheers, it's creating a pompon routine that's terrifying me. Eek!
There was an atmosphere of the world about Sylvia which Mrs. Lem recognized at once from long experience with summer people; and secure in her pompadour, the psyche knot, and the shine of her best gown, she wished to show this young girl that her sophistication was shared even in a rural district. The Opened Shutters
Todd Seek likely would have been uncomfortable with Wednesday's pomp and circumstance honoring the couple, Rueg - segger said with a smile, evoking laughter from the audience. Coloradoan.com - Local News
In a documentary to be shown on BBC 2 tonight, he will reveal his distaste for pomp and ceremony in the Anglican Church.
I suppose a pompon may have hit him in the head, too. Think Progress » 508:
We knew, though, that we were a minority swimming against a powerful tide of patriotic pomposity.
It has been my ambition ever since watching Burt Lancaster, in his barrel-chested pomp, swim home through the pools of his Californian neighbours after a little chat with each on the way.
And it's only because we're all smart enough to know that a pompous, addle-pated, limp witted, butt sniffing, reality impaired, assmonkey troll like you isn't interested in 'discussion'. Kicking S
He's a pompous old prig who's totally incapable of taking a joke.
During the 1820s, a pompous and untalented versifier referred to the Pacific as a ‘liquid waste’, which makes it sound like sewage.
I don't think anyone could read this behaviour in any other way than being pompous and patronising.
Throughout, these figures mirror humanity in all its pomposity and haplessness, calculation and honesty, devotion and infidelity, profanity and piety.
Because the existing word hypnagogic means “of, relating to, or occurring in the state of intermediate consciousness preceding sleep,” and hypnopompic means “of or relating to the partially conscious state that precedes complete awakening from sleep,” many people came up with hyp - coinages. Word Fugitives
She answered pomposity with irony and dominated conversations by her personality and shrewd psychology.
I do not think it is the role of councillors to indulge in pomp and circumstance: we have been elected to do, not to show. On becoming dignified
The company just received U.S. approval in late May for a new drug for Pompe disease, and its experimental biologic drug for multiple sclerosis is getting expedited review by the Food and Drug Administration. Sanofi Launches Genzyme Takeover Battle
This time, rugby has balanced pompous speeches with real measures. Times, Sunday Times
When Mickey's body is found, half eaten by dogs, things take a more serious turn, at least for Jill, and the suspects, older literary types, who tend to be pompous and full of their own self importance, are a scabby bunch.
We enjoy the pomp and the pageantry around our monarchy. The Sun
He dismissed Mapplethorpe as a pompier - an artist so concerned with elegance as to have lost touch with the limits of his medium.
It was the foundation on which his whole image rested: the lack of pomposity, the charm, the casual clothes.
You can see how a triclinium was used to entertain in another fresco, the symposium scene from the Casa dei Casti Amanti in Pompeii.
The monarchy is all about show, the man cloaked and hidden from view by pomp, ceremony and symbolism.
The Pompidou Centre has already staged a major retrospective of his work. Times, Sunday Times
Beethoven's seven-movement Serenade begins and ends with an unpompous march.
He had a certain remoteness, even pomposity.
We have pompons, blue and red wigs, glitter and face paint.
Agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, again flourished under the protection of the laws; and the curioe, or civil corporations, were again filled with useful and respectable members: the youth were no longer apprehensive of marriage; and married persons were no longer apprehensive of posterity: the public and private festivals were celebrated with customary pomp; and the frequent and secure intercourse of the provinces displayed the image of national prosperity. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
There was rarely anything vicious about these jokes: they were leg pulling jokes which only the sensitive and pompous found annoying.
Flower growers cut chrysanthemum blooms soon after the green colour disappeared from the centre of the flowers and harvested pompons when fully developed, but they gathered orchids only when the blooms were fully open.
Their marriage was celebrated with barbaric pomp and festivity, at his wooden palace beyond the Danube; and the monarch, oppressed with wine and sleep, retired at a late hour from the banquet to the nuptial bed.
Did Wright have a "Mission Accomplished" banner hung from an aircraft carrier after he took a million dollar ride in a fighter plane just for pomp? fraulein Obama reminds voters of McCain's '100 years' comment
The NFL can't fully believe in its product, not when its Super Bowl ads are set to Stones music — constant reminders that the pomp is bigger than the play. USATODAY.com - With game plan, true fans can enjoy Stupor Bowl
Their traditional loincloths are sometimes decorated with bright tassels and pompoms.
All of you that take the time to be so pompous and detestably smug about this and the like are inept . Think Progress » Ted Haggard on homosexuality:
And its understanding would help free future generations from stupid orthodoxies of all sorts: “the jack-in-office, the pompous official, the petulant commander, the ignorant pedagogue.” Parasite Rex
Life is not composed by aphorism,how can we decorate it with pompous cliches? I send you my most sincere greeting in silence.
Progressive rock has always been an easy target for the music critics ready to pour scorn on it for being boring, pompous and pretentious. Times, Sunday Times
And, as far as ridiculously pompous, overblown musical statements go, no-one holds a candle to Simple Minds.
The idea behind pasture golf is golfing without all the pomp and circumstance.
Far vedere e dare ad intendere ... non costa niente, si rompono le scatole un po in giro a terzi (e non a se stessi) e si fa una bella figura a poco prezzo "convincendo" la stampa di regime a pompare in bello le proprie "azioni preventive" ... ma fare le cose sul serio, come perseguire quelli che mettono in commercio il software contraffatto lasciando liberi gli innocenti ... aaaahhh quello ci vuole troppo, troppe risorse, troppo tempo e non si può fare come da sempre qui in itlaia a scaricabarile "pensaci tu! The Pirate Bay - Blog
However, the term baroque was also used by those that vilipended the film, as synonymous of extravagant, pretentious or pompous, thus perpetuating the ambiguous nature of the term.
Why devote so much pomp and ceremony to someone who lived such a long and full life and died peacefully?
What redeems the weaker poetry and prose - and most of it is sharp, resilient, funny - is that it's not in the least pompous.
For an atavistically bloody entertainment, a bullfight includes much traditional pomp and ceremony.
Major royalty have received less pomp than this. Times, Sunday Times
He has the clothes, the shoes, the pompadour, and the ‘strong, silent, coolness’ thing completely down cold.
Stamp -- stamp," went the pompous little man; and "brog -- brog," went his stick in the soft earth. Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home
Including the pompous local police commissaire; the unflappable intelligence officer from France; the slimy representative of the international oil cartel; and the personages - intelligence, governmental, and clerical - of the remnants of the civilian oligarchy. ALL DISGRACED BY CORRUPTION
Thus without pomp or solemnity is the body of Jesus laid in the cold and silent grave. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
We muft beg leave to abridge confix derably 'his pompous account of a putrefying animal fubftince* which is diffufed through four pages. The Monthly Review
Nor does he confine himself to the great figures such as the Gracchi, Marius, Sulla, Cicero, Pompey, and Caesar; he is equally fond of portraying the characters of deuteragonists like Clodius, Curio, Lepidus, and Plancus.
The sisters of the Society of the Sacred Heart ‘really despised the world and all its exams and works and pomps.’
He was swaggering, they told me, about the town in his old regimentals, every pomp of the foreign soldier assumed again as if they had never been relaxed in all those yean of peace and commerce. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
Everything else is carried out with pomp and ceremony by the deferential, impeccably mannered, staff.
These will not be numbered among the devotees of Waugh, and probably struggle with pompousness, may be cumbrous or even clumsy from time to time. If I Could Have a Conversation about It: Decline and Fall « Unknowing
It is here that Nazneen is to spend the rest of her days married to Chanu Babu - a pompous yet discreetly sensitive man twenty years her senior.
The addition gives me some pause, however, and it would be as well, I think, to give an account of this list, its whys and wherefores, its origins and impulses, else it lapse into a pompous and merely bibliographic obscurity.
The royal guests were welcomed with pomp and ceremony.
She said that her favorite parts of the trip were excursions to Pompeii and the port city Ostea.
Most practitioners will be used to psychopomp work, and will be able to locate the spirit and guide it on to wherever it's supposed to be.
What lies beneath the pomposity and self-obsession? The Times Literary Supplement
While assassins approached the tent, Pompey began barking and scratching to warn his master, finally jumping on William's face to wake him.
He was a bit pompous. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
The coldest-blooded amongst us, Mr. Massingham of _The Nation_ for example, must confess that it was a moment rich in the emotion which bestows immortality on incident when this son of a village schoolmaster, who grew up in a shoemaker's shop, and whose boyish games were played in the street of a Welsh hamlet remote from all the refinements of civilization and all the clangours of industrialism, announced to a breathless Europe without any pomposity of phrase and with but a brief and contemptuous gesture of dismissal the passing away from the world's stage of the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns -- those ancient, long glorious, and most puissant houses whose history for an æon was the history of The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster
Contrast flower shapes as well, letting spiky, flat-topped, and pompom blooms play off each other.
But where she went to nobody must know, for fear young ladies should begin to fancy that there are water-babies there! and so hunt and howk after them (besides raising the price of lodgings), and keep them in aquariums, as the ladies at Pompeii (as you may see by the paintings) used to keep Cupids in cages. The Water Babies
Allergic contact dermatitis and coexistent athlete's foot were excluded, and pompholyx was diagnosed.
He was somewhat pompous and had a high opinion of his own capabilities.
Their guests returned with 492 blackfin tuna, 465 vermilion snapper, 15 triggerfish, 11 silk snapper and a variety of other fish, including scamp grouper, rockhinds, yellow mouths, pompano, barracuda and a squirrelfish. The Daily News - News
Geneva, "pompously," is no place for brawling, and if you come hither for that, you will quickly find yourself behind bars. The Long Night
Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to [6604] worship by all means the gods of the place, et unumquemque, Topicum deum sic coli oportere, quomodo ipse praeceperit: which Cecilius in [6605] Minutius labours, and would have every nation sacrorum ritus gentiles habere et deos colere municipes, keep their own ceremonies, worship their peculiar gods, which Pomponius Mela reports of the Anatomy of Melancholy
America loves the royal family, partly because of the pomp and pageantry of the whole thing. Times, Sunday Times
It's a pompous place, dark and doomy, pumped up on cheap theatrics and self-regard. Times, Sunday Times
Russell, who in his tea-drinking pomp would get through 20 cups a day, used to dip the tea bag in once, add plenty of milk, then hang it on a nail ready for subsequent use.
What a bunch of pompous, over-paid prats they have made themselves look.
Snide remarks laced with pomposity is not appreciated by most, nor is sarcasm punctuated by right/wrong posturing; therefore, I will just try and share my limited information as best I can and if you wish to comment, it will be welcomed. Living in Mexico
After two hours of pomp and circumstance, the diplomas were awarded and the audience went wild.
Again I gave a civil evasion to the girl's trivial question, and as I did so her companion, looking over her frowzy pompadour, stared at me with insolent familiarity.
The rhythm guitar is played using a distinct percussive technique, "la pompe", that essentially replaces the drums; however, in Eastern gypsy jazz, rhythm section is most likely covered by one or two cymbaloms, or (less frequently) a cymbalom and an acoustic guitar (the cymbalom accompaniment technique is called in Romanian "ţiitură"). Archive 2008-03-01
Massed pipes and drums from 14 regiments accompanied the gun carriage bearing the Queen Mother from Westminster Hall to the Abbey in a moving spectacle of pomp and pageantry.
Last week's defeat against Pompey dragged the club back into the thick of a relegation battle.
Burton still sleep in sepulchral pomp in their marmorean Arab Tent at Mortlake. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
I suppose it's too much to ask from a pompous, arrogant, and self-promoting tightass like Mr. Gingrich, but one of the many saving graces of America is that it is a diverse nation with a lot of different cultures, ideals, and belief systems. Religious Education
Yes, he used those words to shock and to consciously mock pomposity, but no, he doesn't really call people "pickaninnies". Racist Slur At Boris
A psychopomp is a guide, an intermediary, between the living and the dead. Times, Sunday Times
All anyone could talk about now was the coming confrontation between Crassus and Pompey; the plight of the Sicilian was a bore. Imperium
He raised an army but was defeated in 77 by his optimate colleague, Q. Lutatius Catulus, and Pompey. F. War and Politics, to 70 B.C.E
Sneak a peek at practically any big-deal CEO, congressional heavy, media baron, talk-show yakker, pompadoured TV preacher, or any the other pushers of America's new ethic of grab-it-and-go greed.

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