pompousness

How To Use pompousness In A Sentence

• I'm all for good satire, the sharp and perceptive deflating of pretense, pompousness or deceit.
• 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
• 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
• 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: Honoré de Balzac's New English Release, Treatise on Elegant Living
• 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
• 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
• At the same time he lacked the pompousness and standoffish attitude which is the way of some foreign correspondents.
• Grunge provided an opportunity, as punk had before, for separating the wheat from the chaff—annihilating 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 fan’s notes - Colby Cosh - Macleans.ca
• 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
• 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: Honoré de Balzac's New English Release, Treatise on Elegant Living