How To Use pompously In A Sentence
- 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
- This hostile became so habitual that Nike pompously formed a contrapositive section for this rank only.
- The new 165,000-square-foot building is the latest in a series of expansions to the VMFA's prim 1936 building, a brick-and-limestone pile in the Georgian style, fronted by a classical pediment and an entryway that immediately requires visitors to ascend a pompously overscale staircase. Rick Mather's design elevates Richmond museum's dour 1930s architecture
- And yet I lately met a sciolist who pompously announced to me this philological absurdity as a discovery of his own. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The bountiful extras include a great booklet, alternate edits, audio commentaries, a trifle of an animated homage by Michel Gondry and especially a TV chat about Vigo between Francois Truffaut and a pompously self-important Eric Rohmer. Michael Giltz: DVDs: What's The Best Sitcom On Thursday Nights?
- Lacy predicts that Hart will play the king, pompously—although he does do royalty well they say that kings could take lessons from him. Exit the Actress
- When you pompously attach yourself, for self elevation purposes, as “the” back scratcher by putting others down, its clear its another of your feeble, (carcass related) insidious Jackal & Hide jibes, you all to often, are compelled to pathetically, and pathologically bring sick attention to yourself. A Prison of the Mind Two
- Indeed, the pompously Latin motto of the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland is ‘fiant secundum descriptionem bona’ - let the product accord with its description.
- Robin said pompously that he had an important business appointment.
- To that end, he reproduces pages from 17th century books - pages and pages of Latin going on pompously and unintelligibly, forging the way ahead for the fledging sciences.
