How To Use Pompously In A Sentence
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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
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This hostile became so habitual that Nike pompously formed a contrapositive section for this rank only.
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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Indeed, the pompously Latin motto of the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland is ‘fiant secundum descriptionem bona’ - let the product accord with its description.
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Robin said pompously that he had an important business appointment.
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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.
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He is the exemplary modernizing figure whose works are pompously taught as avant-garde texts that open new horizons for Arab youths.
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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.
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he pompously described his achievements
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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
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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.
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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
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Carlton is bending facts here in an area he often pompously claims first-hand knowledge.
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While her colleagues pompously assemble public forums, she informs the police.
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As more than sixty of the elegant vehicles pompously purred their way through the city.
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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.’
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Geneva, "pompously," is no place for brawling, and if you come hither for that, you will quickly find yourself behind bars.
The Long Night
