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How To Use pompous In A Sentence

• 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
• I was accused of being stiff, spoiled, pompous, upper crusted, bitter, angry, negative, imbecilic, and even crazy.
• Music critics have often poured scorn on progressive rock for being boring, pompous and pretentious. Times, Sunday Times
• He's a pompous old prig who's totally incapable of taking a joke.
• a pompous speech
• 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.
• 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
• Dora is engaged to a pompous young bigwig of local fascist society, to the evident delight of her ambitious mother.
• 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.