“Her short, bright red hair and bold, self-assured manner gave Nurse Holt, in my mind's eye, the resemblance of a combination between a pompous queen reviewing her court and the head rooster checking out the barnyard turf.”

“If he had learned one thing over the past five months, it was to remain quiet when this pompous and egotistical man spoke.”

“The crowd would cringe at his pompous phraseology.”