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Sentence Examples I don't think anyone could read this behaviour in any other way than being pompous and patronising. I know this sounds pompous, but sitting down to a communal family meal is seriously undervalued. That fat, overweight, pompous slug would never be able to get me himself, she thought, without sending one of his henchmen to retrieve me. There is no dialogue, but a pompous voice-over narration explains everything that is going on, just in case we are too dim to figure it out. A few days later, a pompous brigadier turned up and criticised Churchill for leaving a gap in his defences. Gone are the pompous, moralistic tomes full of Victorian values and happy endings. In their statements, they have become expert in using pompous phrases and key buzzwords to cover up ugly banalities. The British reviews were cold and formal... The great Romantic critics had not appeared, to take the starch out of their pompous manners. Things are never dull when she stirs her stumps to create a mild uproar in that pompous little town. Crowds delighted in speeches filled with double talk ridiculing the pompous, bombastic oratory that characterized familiar memorial rituals. Money and rank mean everything to Mr. Osborne, with his pompous parade of dull cynicism. The wealthy and sadistic landowner is a caricature, complete with a clipped upper-class accent and hysterically pompous manner. I must be that inexplicably angry, obtuse, ill mannered, audacious, pompous blow-hard that writes insulting letters to The Peak! I was accused of being stiff, spoiled, pompous, upper crusted, bitter, angry, negative, imbecilic, and even crazy. Some were engaging, others pompous, and yet others far too full of their own importance. Dora is engaged to a pompous young bigwig of local fascist society, to the evident delight of her ambitious mother. Least understandable, though, is the Mercury music prize, with its piffling purse and its pompous panel of five pipsqueaks. Many scribes find the senator insufferably and hopelessly pompous, not to mention grating to be around. You also said that your Dad always taught you that being pompous and self-important was just about the greatest sin of all. Still, many Panelists who accepted the usage also remarked that it was pretentious or pompous. Show More Sentences Keith was painted as patronising and pompous, with a grandiose idea of her own importance. But saying something on a grand scale is what fools or pompous pundits usually do. I was pompous, arrogant and so full of my self that I thought that I could do anything. Aristotle's critics have pounced upon this sentence as an example of pompous obscurantism. As if his letters were not a true indicator of his pompous attitude, Donovan in person was pretentious and rude. 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. Many of the most pompous and arrogant men I've ever met have been obsessed by upgrading their flight tickets. He is arrogant, pompous, never misses a chance to show off his superiority, and drinks to excess. Technical people too often seem distant, effete, imperious, and even pompous. Taking an aristocrat's pompous and often unrealistic pontifications as an ideal for living is clearly not a good thing. Walton is splendidly pompous and circumstantial when extolling the Babylonian gods. The pompous, splendid Library, on the other hand, visually overwhelms its contents. Don't go getting the impression that Demonstration is at all pompous or portentous, though. I admire the way the crab apple tree made her large blue and white mansion look less pompous. They were appropriately pompous but looked like crumbly high school maths teachers. Maybe you should have thought about that before you started behaving like a pompous prig. He was not pompous at all and did not look worried as if he had just come straight from court. Alternatively, if the opening speaker is dry, stuffy, boring, or pompous, it gives every other speaker less momentum to work with. 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. Know that I have nothing but contempt for your concern, you pompous wretch. Show More Sentences He didn't want his 50th jubilee to be celebrated at all, let alone celebrated with the customary pompous laudatory speeches. People have been duped for long enough by a pompous officialdom and an over reverent Press full of its own conceit and self-importance. Hicks offers a reverential homage to nature, while a slightly pompous drama slowly unfolds. As well as being badly written, it is too long, too vague, too pompous, too rhetorical, too unrealistic and too boring. Not as tricky as it sounded, though my result is pompous, Romanticised and riddlingly obscure. Beware of people claiming supernatural powers, and of those that try to impress you with pompous titles and appellations. The sobriety of the streets is relieved by bridges with self-important towers or slightly pompous lions and griffins with gilded wings. All in all, it resembles the exclusive hunting lodge of some pompous lord and his friends. They look a little deeper into the matter without being pompous, arrogant or patronising. Pretty much everyone looked at them as fascist scum at worst and pompous throwbacks at best. 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. As a hack myself, I like nothing better than seeing pompous and powerful politicians being exposed as men of straw. Against that dark, wavy-haired, bespectacled and pompous little individual, I had taken an instant scunner. Then there's the bad, bad kind, where one is blatantly rude, pompous and self-righteous about what they do not know. It's probably because she has found after six years that she is married to a smug, self-satisfied, arrogant, pompous twit. There are full bird colonels, majors, captains, and arrogant, pompous wind bags all paid too much and full of themselves. The music mocks the pompous words with its crude, plodding scales, and speaks of horror rather than triumph. I observed that his prose was turgid and his character pompous, which is correct on both counts. The site itself is fine, but the pompous paragraphs of twaddle regarding the most mediocre of indie rock bands can be a real hoot! He is pompous and superior, particularly in his treatment of Holly. Show More Sentences She found it difficult to talk about her achievements without sounding pompous. Is it pompous to wonder why, as a working journalist, Wikipedia affords the other guy that title? This year, the show has even resurrected Eliot Ness, seen making a pompous speech to reporters about bringing Capone to justice. Leon turned out to be beautiful, with walkways and parks beside the Rio Bernesga, and a cathedral and public buildings in a more pompous but somehow much more Castilian style. 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. A true country-club hillbilly, Cornette's pompous demeanor, obnoxious jackets, and endless stream of double-talk have made him one of the most despised men in wrestling. 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. He's only 15, but thinks like his dad, a pompous self-important academic. 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. This means I can get whipped up into a state of ill-informed indignation, because if I'm going to get indignant it may as well be in quite a pompous and nescient fashion. What a bunch of pompous, over-paid prats they have made themselves look. Amrish Puri stars in one of the tales as a vain and pompous man. Highly recommended, other than the slight shock of discovering that that pompous idiot is still allowed to bumble away incoherently in this the 21st century. Fifth, the remedy cannot be pompous pontification or moral policing. Now I've met enough pompous twits in my time to know one when I hear one. It was nice to know that something could ruffle the pompous guard. 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. Luckily there was no stocky, cocky, balding, scalding, mawkish, jockish, pompous pontificator with a silly moustache in the premises. He could not endure his airs as a man of fashion, and laughed heartily at his pompous braggadocio stories. I'm delighted that you should admire Beecham. A pompous little duckarsed bandmaster who stood against everything creative in the art of his time. Show More Sentences If he expected either of them to fall on his neck and weep tears of gratitude at his pompous announcement, the colonel was disappointed. They were cavernous and brightly lit and the facades lining them were pompous and hueful. The student's lexiphanicism is an obvious attempt to appear smart but really only serves to make him look pompous. His satires dealt with common Elizabethan topics, such as corruption in the legal system, mediocre poets, and pompous courtiers. Fustian also refers to pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech, starting from the time of Shakespeare. He is a pompous and obsequious clergyman, who expects each of the Bennet girls to wish to marry him due to his inheritance. This flyer arrived in early December, all in Spanish and seems very sercon, even pompous, but the reptiloid alien on the front is suitably silly. Others may seem them as pompous windbags with over-inflated egos and obscene salaries to match. They are also boasters and threateners and are fond of pompous language, and yet they have sharp wits and are not without cleverness at learning. It is also used figuratively to refer to pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech, from at least the time of Shakespeare. Also in 2004, Sheen played a pompous rock star in the romantic comedy Laws of Attraction and produced and starred in The Banker, which won a BAFTA Award for Best Short Film. He also stresses Barlow's pompous nature and quick temper that combined to add an element of controversy, and detestability, to the general's character. Hugh Bonneville returns as Adam's pompous arch nemesis Roland Wise, as do resident dopehead Mick, Nigel the keen lay reader and headteacher Ellie. Pompous sentimental muck well worthy of George Lucas himself. For Warsies only. Examples from Classical Literature After that there was less pompous dignity and less hysteria, although the toes continued to wigwag. Even so, he wouldn't have bothered to come if it had not been for the fact that Viron Belgezad was a pompous braggart. A central feature of the celebration was a pompous church procession following vespers on Childermas eve. One of them, barrel-chested and somewhat pompous in his manners, seemed to be a representative of the district attorneys office. He had assumed a very pompous, hortatory manner, and I could well believe he held a prominent position in Asbury class. Jack laughed again, a thing which in a non-member almost caused the pompous little man to explode with indignation. Ortega himself, fat and greasy and pompous, leaned against his bar and twisted a stogie between his puffy, pendulous lips. The trophied arches, storeyed halls invade And haunt their slumbers in the pompous shade. There is nothing in it of the mawkishness of Kelly nor of the pompous affectation of Cumberland. Who crowns his bust with laurels, or celebrates his birthday and his deathday with solemn festivals and pompous panegyrics? He has no sentiment beyond a dudish and pompous admiration for himself, and he covets every hen he sees. Here the pompous antithesis is evidently meant to caricature the peculiar euphuistic sentence of court parlance. There is some flower here that the pompous feverfew doesn't care to associate with. Even in this critical moment the officer could not drop the anticlerical rhetoric and pompous style that he always adopted. He pulled his revers together with a pompous gesture and opened his mouth to speak. What you say in your pompous distribution only distributes you into your class and section. It is amusing to read Tarleton's pompous account of this pursuit. At a little distance from the throng might be seen the wealthy and pompous merchants whose warehouses stood on Long Wharf. The pompous procession therefore wended its way towards Pere-la-Chaise from the Faubourg Saint-Honore. There is something very pompous about the strut of the crow-pheasant. Show More Sentences There was also mingled with the pompous, something of the finical. Instantly his attitude of good-natured bantering and pompous boastfulness dropped from him. It has a pompous Latin name, but it is incurably Gothic and grotesque. Trench was arguing frantically with the pompous figure of Captain Hendrix. There is no hope in the pompous impersonalities of internationalism. In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton. Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. Then she called me to her by name in a would-be pompous manner. Thy pompous delicacies I contemn, And count thy specious gifts no gifts, but guiles. The preachment of the Eclectic is still more pompous and superior. He escorted them to their box with a sort of pompous humility, waving his fat jewelled hands and talking at the top of his voice. Aramis, confiding in the address of Bazin, made a pompous eulogium on his candidate. Sometimes, no doubt, it followed in the train of the pompous governors when they came over from England. Baston, unglued from the wall, spoke up with his usual pompous eagerness. The Mohawk chief was received in pompous state at the Governor's table. He had disliked Peppajee as a pompous egotist among his kind. Just because the EU says it shall be so, must we suckers believe the pompous words of the wholly unaccountable tin gods of Brussels and Strasbourg? The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town. She scarcely noted the rhythm otherwise, except when it became too pompous, at which moments she was disagreeably impressed with its amateurishness. But when prissy and pompous Victor Melling puts Hart through beauty camp, the transformation is a sight for sore eyes and something of an eye-opener for fellow agent Matthews. Show More Sentences The outcome of this politics was the frequent pompous news on the great offensives from Deputy PM Arifi and Defense Minister Besimi that blew up as soap bubble. Of course Ahmadinejad is a pompous demagogue with a Mephistophelian urge to foment trouble while accepting no responsibility for his hateful words. Find more words! 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