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.
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
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
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
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 British reviews were cold and formal... The great Romantic critics had not appeared, to take the starch out of their pompous manners.
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
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
I observed that his prose was turgid and his character pompous, which is correct on both counts.
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.
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
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
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
He's only 15, but thinks like his dad, a pompous self-important academic.
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
He is arrogant, pompous, never misses a chance to show off his superiority, and drinks to excess.
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.
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.
Beethoven's seven-movement Serenade begins and ends with an unpompous march.
There was rarely anything vicious about these jokes: they were leg pulling jokes which only the sensitive and pompous found annoying.
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.
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.
What redeems the weaker poetry and prose - and most of it is sharp, resilient, funny - is that it's not in the least pompous.
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
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
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.
He was a bit pompous. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
He was somewhat pompous and had a high opinion of his own capabilities.
Geneva, "pompously," is no place for brawling, and if you come hither for that, you will quickly find yourself behind bars. The Long Night
It's a pompous place, dark and doomy, pumped up on cheap theatrics and self-regard. Times, Sunday Times
What a bunch of pompous, over-paid prats they have made themselves look.
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
Page 408 here! the pompous Magnolia, reigns sovereign of the forests; how sweet the aromatic Illisium groves? how gaily flutters the radiated wings of the Magnolia auriculata? each branch supporting an expanded umbrella, superbly crested with a silver plume, fragrant blossom, or crimson studded strobile and fruits! Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
But that's a rather pompous description of a show which is done with a delightfully light touch. Times, Sunday Times
The Treatise veers between the insecure pompousness and pompous insecurity of a man who dons bling on dirty fingers and then sets out to create the urtext of social seemliness. Caroline Hagood: Blast From the Past: HonorÃ© de Balzac's New English Release, Treatise on Elegant Living
We work toward a movement in which all cereal chromosomes will be united, not only in one New Cereal (pompously designated "the first man-made cereal") but also in other new cereals besides Triticale such as Hordecale (amphidiploid of barley and rye), Triticordeum (amphidiploid of wheat and barley) and many more, not scorning any contribution, be it of chromosomes or only a few genes found in countless other gramineous strains, that will prove to be of undeniable Value to the betterment of many cereals. Chapter 12
It's not his fault he's so pompous-he was born that way.
Because he was so often referred to in pompous tones as ‘the eminent historian and biographer’, I would sometimes address him as: ‘Dear eminence.’
It recrudesced the laughter and the song, and put a lilt into my own imagination so that I could laugh and sing and say foolish things with the liveliest of them, or platitudes with verve and intensity to the satisfaction of the pompous mediocre ones who knew no other way to talk. Chapter 29
The indictment against Adams, as I read it, is that he's a fat, pompous old windbag who assumes that anyone with an opposing viewpoint is a fool or a knave.
Henry, fighting the urge to just disappear and let the battle rage on, shifted somewhat pompously and very self-confidently into a loud authoritative voice.
Some girls think he's mega cute as well, but I personally think he's mega pompous and needs someone to stick a pin in that over inflated ego of his.
Life is not composed by aphorism, how can we decorate it with pompous cliche & 1 & s? I send you my most sincere greeting in silence.
It was nice to know that something could ruffle the pompous guard.
We do know with certainty that she found his politics too conservative and his personality too pompous. Berthe Morisot
The pompous, splendid Library, on the other hand, visually overwhelms its contents.
He told the conference journalists are often ‘disconnected snobs and pompous know-alls who let the concerns of real people drop off the radar.’
Constructive criticism people, not pompous know-all attitude. The Tail Section » Your Voice: Why ‘Lost’ is the Greatest Story Ever Told
It's not his fault he's so pompous-he was born that way.
There could never be presented a subject less calculated to be wound up with a rhetorical flourish or to close in pompous affirmation than that which I have so temerariously brought before you this afternoon. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
Crowds delighted in speeches filled with double talk ridiculing the pompous, bombastic oratory that characterized familiar memorial rituals.
But saying something on a grand scale is what fools or pompous pundits usually do.
We found him arrogant and pompous. Times, Sunday Times
In general I think that genre analysis is an underappreciated tool (I will assert that without bothering to prove it — making my current genre: pompously proclaiming). The Art of Verification « Snarkmarket
The general is a tall man with steel spectacles and a stiff, rather pompous manner.
As well as being badly written, it is too long, too vague, too pompous, too rhetorical, too unrealistic and too boring.
And that is what the book is really about: the pompousness and not-at-all pompousness of religion; or, to put it another way, the overwhelming bullshit and the overwhelming beauty of Jewishness, where Jewishness is a metaphor for human culture in general. The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Captain Rosser several times countermanded orders given by his chief officer -- an experienced seaman -- and bullied and "jawed" his crew in the most pompous and irritating manner, and finally when we succeeded in getting the vessel off the reef with the loss of her false keel and rudder, and were towing her into smooth water inside the reef, he came for'ard, and abruptly desired our chief mate to cease towing, as he meant to anchor. "Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902
I thought it a bit pompous, myself, and the third verse doesn't scan at all, but it's not so bad a song as all that.
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. Archive 2009-01-01
This time, rugby has balanced pompous speeches with real measures. Times, Sunday Times
You can find many faults with Sarah Palin; she is arrogant, self-centered, egotistic, grossly dishonest, can be pompous and obnoxious, and is literally sociopathic without any conscience, to name just an obvious few. King: 'Going Rogue' reignites Palin divide, even in her hometown
He was not pompous at all and did not look worried as if he had just come straight from court.
People have been duped for long enough by a pompous officialdom and an over reverent Press full of its own conceit and self-importance.
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
These three events together, the Unwitting Thief, the Summers parody, and the Gore parody, point to a peculiar vacuum of confidence in the middle years of the last decade -- they also happen to be the time McEwan wrote Saturday, and it is not too much to claim that the fatal flaw in that book was a certain pompousness toward Western righteousness. Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment
Life is not composed by aphorism, how can we decorate it with pompous cliche & 1 & s? I send you my most sincere greeting in silence.
Sadly, the four-by-four has became an acceptable alternative to Mercedes or BMW for the pompous, self-important driver," Mr. King told the London Daily Mail in 2004. Charles Spencer King, British engineer who helped create Range Rover, dies at 85
Still, many Panelists who accepted the usage also remarked that it was pretentious or pompous.
You are quite the pompous windbag with your "orgy of self-gratulatory principle-mongering". Let's talk about Dawg one more time.
Even then, the term sumptuousness may seem ill-chosen, since the nomadic nature of African life persists in spite of palaces and chamberlains and all the elaborate ritual of the Makhzen, and the most pompous rites are likely to end in a dusty gallop of wild tribesmen, and the most princely processions to tail off in a string of half-naked urchins riding bareback on donkeys. In Morocco
In fact, the idea of listening to a bunch of pompous professionals congratulating themselves on their own erudition seems marginally less appealing than poking myself in the eye with a red-hot skewer.
The general is a tall man with steel spectacles and a stiff, rather pompous manner.
He was very pompous at the meeting.
The music mocks the pompous words with its crude, plodding scales, and speaks of horror rather than triumph.
Alternatively, if the opening speaker is dry, stuffy, boring, or pompous, it gives every other speaker less momentum to work with.
In their statements, they have become expert in using pompous phrases and key buzzwords to cover up ugly banalities.
He plays a pompous old crock of a secondary teacher.
They needed to put a little blue collar -- Carolina blue, if you will -- into all that pompous purple.
Sharon Day, a Broward County committeewoman and secretary of the Republican National Committee, called Greer pompous and showy. Jim Greer, Former Florida GOP Chair, Must Have Thought He Was Jack Donaghy
He does that by making fun of ‘the jargon, the mush, the smog, the dull pompous, boneless, gassy language’ that afflicts the world today.
She winced when she heard his pompous speech
I think it's a little pompous on your part to judge whether or not strangers at Starbuck's are using Macs to be productive, and your suggestion that all the PC users in Starbucks constantly have their noses to the grindstone is a little laughable. Digg.com: Stories / Popular
Maybe you should have thought about that before you started behaving like a pompous prig.
Garibaldi was always or almost always victorious (in reality he fought brilliant guerrilla skirmishes which piety later turned into vast and tidy battles); he was the first to be called Il Duce, a pompous nineteenth-century opera libretto title, by antonomasia (Mussolini had been called Il Duce by his socialist followers before 1914 and took the title with him to the Fascist party). The Not So Great Dictator
Fifth, the remedy cannot be pompous pontification or moral policing.
We found him arrogant and pompous. Times, Sunday Times
Just another example of these pompous, windbaggish, conniving Conservatives who are the very definition of "do as I used to say a long time ago but not as I have done since I got elected." bazoo says: John Baird decries irresponsible Japanese election - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca
I am not talking in this arrogant and pompous manner. Times, Sunday Times
Both involve ancient recurring human drama, and after a whole it becomes simply wilful to feign contemptuous ignorance of something filling two pages of our daily papers, like those judges who would interject, pompously: "What is a Teletubbie/Xbox/iPod? Yes, it's fine to admit you don't watch TV | Euan Ferguson
But, lobsters and lollipops! it is a good thing the seneschal was a pompous fool. Prince Caspian
The same schoolboy would put to silence the pompous declaimer A Philosophical Dictionary
I would have gladly grabbed the pompous and corrupt Hamid Karzai by his neck and stuck his nose in a bedsore even though it would have meant my court-martial. Afghan Hospital Horror Is a Sign of Terrible Failure
At the same time he lacked the pompousness and standoffish attitude which is the way of some foreign correspondents.
The men who assembled had just as good brains as anyone to-day, and ... they had a substantial understanding of the needs of the world situation, yet collectively, and because of their haunting paralyzing sense of the Mass and Press behind them and of their incalculable impulses and resentments, they achieved an effect of fatuity far beyond the pompous blunderings of Versailles. Garrett Johnson: The Crowning Failure of the Old Governments
I've just deleted a very long and somewhat pompous sociology essay that you probably wouldn't have been able to bear reading all the way through.
There is a story in your family in which a local squire once reminded your grandfather rather pompously that ‘I came over with the Normans.’
He's a real gentleman, if a little pompous at times.
Keith was painted as patronising and pompous, with a grandiose idea of her own importance.
The leadsman was a rather pompous individual, duly impressed with the importance of his position, in having charge of the deep-sea line, which was something short of two fathoms in length. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852
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
As more than sixty of the elegant vehicles pompously purred their way through the city.
Such an author will at one moment write in a dithyrambic vein, as though he were tipsy; at another, nay, on the very next page, he will be pompous, severe, profoundly learned and prolix, stumbling on in the most cumbrous way and chopping up everything very small; like the late Christian Wolf, only in a modern dress. The Art of Literature
While her colleagues pompously assemble public forums, she informs the police.
Technical people too often seem distant, effete, imperious, and even pompous.
Carlton is bending facts here in an area he often pompously claims first-hand knowledge.
At one time it is a pompous banquet in a superb saloon festooned with gold, with tall lustrous windows and pale crimson curtains, the doge in his simarre dining with the magistrates in purple robes, and masked guests gliding over the floor; nothing is more elegant than the exquisite aristocracy of their small feet, their slender necks and their jaunty little three-cornered hats among skirts flounced with yellow or pearly gray silks. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One)
You also said that your Dad always taught you that being pompous and self-important was just about the greatest sin of all.
Music critics have often poured scorn on progressive rock for being boring, pompous and pretentious. Times, Sunday Times
Yeah, I know, I giggle at the whole idea of a bunch of rectitudinous and pompous male legislators being taken down by a sex scandal, but really, if the only way they can have sex is by paying for it, they should be the objects of our pity. Firedoglake » Friday Amusements (And One Disturbing Bit)
On his restless nocturnal strolls, Harry frequently encounters his next-door neighbor, and friendly fellow insomniac, Bradley Thomas (Greg Kinnear), the maritally jinxed proprietor of the campus coffee shop, and the source of much of the film’s humor in the kind of pompously clueless role he played so effectively in last year’s hilarious Little Miss Sunshine. A Lovable Feast: An Old Friend Offers Cure for the War Weary
The ones that worried me most were the negative things that said, ‘He's kind of pompous, he's very stiff and very unrelaxed and un-Australian.’
Grunge provided an opportunity, as punk had before, for separating the wheat from the chaffâannihilating acts that had truly been predicated on nothing but hairstyles and codpieces, and allowing reconsideration and critical filtering of arena rock, metal, and prog that might have been burdened with excessive pompousness and trippy kozmik imagery, but still possessed enduring value. Rush: a fanâs notes - Colby Cosh - Macleans.ca
He'd probably be a senator because, in a business that attracts pompous blowhards, senators are the crème de la crème.
Then there's the bad, bad kind, where one is blatantly rude, pompous and self-righteous about what they do not know.
As an excuse, it manages to be simultaneously vague, slightly pompous and entirely meaningless. Times, Sunday Times
I used the tactics of the author of this blog when I used sarcasm to point out the pompousness of his opinion. The Human Spark
He's a pompous ass.
He liked to be rather pompous. Times, Sunday Times
When we describe their pompous vanity and take exquisite pleasure in putting calipers on the immense littleness of their avarice, we are making records of our own littleness and avariciousness. Philip "Momism" Wylie on Congress
The poems are delivered with the pompous self-importance of an obscure poet addressing a small band of intellectuals.
This time, rugby has balanced pompous speeches with real measures. Times, Sunday Times
I thought “pompous” was an appellation that had been monopolised by a certain Prof.Dr. Krugman. Matthew Yglesias » Franken FTW
Of course they have their counterpart on the other side of the argument: the florid-faced, overweight beefeater astride his long-suffering mount, pompously blustering his right to do whatever he jolly well pleases.
Timothy Dwight, the fervently reactionary and comically pompous head of Yale University, was a strong Federalist supporter who predicted that the accession of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency would lead to "a frenzied dance of Jacobinism. Lerdo de Tejada: Jacobin to liberal elitist
Hicks offers a reverential homage to nature, while a slightly pompous drama slowly unfolds.
A hypocritical, pompous, cowardly and sanctimonious bully, Carp makes his heavy-footed way through life completely blind to his own faults and acutely aware of the faults in others.
Life is not composed by aphorism, how can we decorate it with pompous cliche & 1 & s? I send you my most sincere greeting in silence.
The general is a tall man with steel spectacles and a stiff, rather pompous manner.
Least understandable, though, is the Mercury music prize, with its piffling purse and its pompous panel of five pipsqueaks.
I'm glad I'm not the only one to find Dimbleby's show increasingly an excuse for him to indulge his ego and behave pompously, as he tries to cram a quart into a pint pot by badgering his 'guests' with interruptions and snidey remarks to make himself look of a superior intelligence. Johnson, Benn and Harman Shine on Question Time
All in all, it resembles the exclusive hunting lodge of some pompous lord and his friends.
Both cities have beautiful colonial plazas but the cities themselves are spread widely over rolling hills not inviting to residents prone to strolling in leafy neighborhoods within reasonable distance from those pompous plazas. Pedestrian Friendly?
Over and over again, when reading newspaper articles full of pompous words borrowed from Latin through French, when wearied with 'velleities' and 'solidarities' and 'altruisms' and The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
No, this particular rudeness just tells us the teacher is a pompous atheist. A California Ruling
Nobody speaks in portmanteau sentences, so they are inherently pretentious and tend to sound pompous. 2009 February 24 « One-Minute Book Reviews
How arrogant and pompous of him, the coalition is much bigger than one person. The Sun
The service was grand without being pompous.
I have never felt so attracted to pompous verbosity.
The Treatise veers between the insecure pompousness and pompous insecurity of a man who dons bling on dirty fingers and then sets out to create the urtext of social seemliness. Caroline Hagood: Blast From the Past: HonorÃ© de Balzac's New English Release, Treatise on Elegant Living
He was somewhat pompous and had a high opinion of his own capabilities.
He is a greedy, pompous, cat killing, evil nondoctor whose profits come from others’ sickness and insurance companies. Think Progress » Federal attorneys have subpoened
Will calls Webb a "boor" and a "pompous poseur" (two phrases that might have popped into Will's mind while shaving in the mirror that morning) and asserts Webb has "patent disrespect for the presidency". George Will Faults Former Navy Secretary for "Making Waves"!
They can range from I-work-with-bricks-and-steel-and-you-don't macho he-men on one end of the spectrum to the pompous, condescending windbags affecting Wrightian capes and walking sticks on the other.
His personality was as unendearing as his looks... pompous, patronising, pontificating. Bum and Bummer
Aristotle's critics have pounced upon this sentence as an example of pompous obscurantism.
Ok, so I'm really nothing like him but if I was to be reincarnated as a pompous windbag that'd be the type I'd like to be.
He is especially good at the switch between a male lead - a pompous official, for example - and an onnagata: a range of different women. News On Japan
The sobriety of the streets is relieved by bridges with self-important towers or slightly pompous lions and griffins with gilded wings.
They needed to put a little blue collar -- Carolina blue, if you will -- into all that pompous purple.
A French gastro-psycho-thriller about the psychologically twisted relationship between a young waiter and a pompous, manipulative businessman who hires him as a food taster.
Dobbs comes across as a self-important, pompous, bloviator with extreme opinions delivered with absolute certainty. John King to replace Lou Dobbs
he pompously described his achievements
Those close to him say his pompousness may be a means to combat shyness.
What he wouldn't have been is a pompous lackwit intent upon sealing a place for himself that he neither deserved nor could ever attain in any mind other than his own. -
Then I realised that was a bit pompous. Times, Sunday Times
To set poetry to drama makes the verse pompous and pretentious. Times, Sunday Times
Know that I have nothing but contempt for your concern, you pompous wretch.
I am not talking in this arrogant and pompous manner. Times, Sunday Times
No matter the genre, a prat is a prat, a pompous ponce a pompous ponce. “Nation” by Terry Pratchett « The Retort
Music critics have often poured scorn on progressive rock for being boring, pompous and pretentious. Times, Sunday Times
I cringe now at how pompous I must have seemed with my designer handbag and new hairdo. Times, Sunday Times
She approached the postern gate where a pompous-looking black-clad guard halted her. The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six
His object was, to investigate the causes of this Grecian superiority; or, if _investigate_ is too pompous a word for so slight a discussion, more properly, he inquired for the cause as something that must naturally lie upon the surface. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
He was somewhat pompous and had a high opinion of his own capabilities.
The document was sententious and pompous.
Lord Irvine has always been portrayed as a pompous and arrogant.
He was generally disliked and regarded as a pompous ass.
It also timeously destroys Mr. Speaker Martin's self-serving and pompous valediction in which he sought to claim that if MPs had adopted proposals made last year, all would have been well, the implication being that he had been at the forefront of such changes and had been thwarted by the House. Expenses: The Commons Exocets Itself
They look a little deeper into the matter without being pompous, arrogant or patronising.
I remember meeting Quinn at lunch years ago and enjoying her company and telling her - all too pompously I am afraid - that the reason why she was having such a big success over here and so much fun was that she didn't take any of it or us seriously.
Microsoft insulting users who dare to use another bowser … never, it should read “… arrogant, pompous, self-serving Microsoft …” more like it. Microsoft’s Browser Comparison Chart Offends Anyone Who’s Ever Used Another Browser | Lifehacker Australia
In conversation, the lively spirit of dialogue is agreeable, even to those who desire not to have any share in the discourse: hence the teller of long stories, or the pompous declaimer, is very little approved of. An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals

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