| 单词 | pompous |
| 例句 | Tonight he appeared to be a shadow, hanging on every word from this pompous opinionated man. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z A pompous pigeon, his arrogant chest stuck out like a banker’s, sat on top of the flagpole. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He tended to be a bit pompous at times, but he was reliable. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His manner of speaking was infecting me, making me pompous. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She had, likewise, a fierce and a hard eye: it reminded me of Mrs. Reed’s; she mouthed her words in speaking; her voice was deep, its inflections very pompous, very dogmatical,—very intolerable, in short. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He was even more afraid than Amanda, but to make her think this was all routine, he adopted the relaxed, pompous air he had seen doctors use. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Special announcement!” said the loud speaker in a pompous voice. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Johnny had never seen Colonel Smith except when he was rosy with good brandy, pompous with pride in himself and the men he commanded. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not a crime if you consider him handsome. I’ll admit I judged him wrong; I thought him to be a pompous, selfish idiot, but he’s not so bad.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The result was several distinct species, to each of which scientists have assigned a pompous Latin name. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He was short and slight, black-haired and black-eyed, pompous, condescending, and almost as ignorant medically as I was. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z With the Judge’s sons, hunting and tramping, it had been a working partnership; with the Judge’s grandsons, a sort of pompous guardianship; and with the Judge himself, a stately and dignified friendship. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z The word phobic has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Gaunt imitated Ogden’s voice, making it pompous and singsong. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “For pity’s sake, Amelia. Where did you ever hear such pompous nonsense?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “But it wasn’t by some stuffed shirt, pompous, arrogant princeling!” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “I’m sure we shall all like whatever you wear,” he said in his most pompous Frank-ish voice. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Once more he was that self he had long since taught himself to wear in the world’s eye, pompous, spurious, not quite gross. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Sir Mador de la Porte—more pompous than the rest, or more malevolent, or more of a stickler—ended by voicing the thought which was in every mind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He ducked into the hallway and bolted up the stairs into the apartment, where he found Aarfy pacing about uneasily with a pompous, slighdy uncomfortable smile. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Hellenistic rulers, it is said, trivialized Greek civic life by reducing it to pompous pageantry and contests over who could best flatter the king. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Suddenly I held out my hand and we shook, he gravely, from the pompous height of his municipal and military dream. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Down the hall it went and into the bedrooms, with its strange, pompous little strut. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z His speeches were once described as “an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He had always thought of Fudge as a kindly figure, a little blustering, a little pompous, but essentially good-natured. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z And showing off with fancy words you barely understand can make you look pompous and occasionally ridiculous. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Smug, pompous—I felt like hitting him too. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She would talk herself past the terse woman on the switchboard, and the pompous young fellow in the outer office, and she would reassure her husband that there was no need to feel guilt. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Well, we do look to our prefects to take a lead at times such as these,” said George in a good imitation of Percy’s most pompous manner. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I could deal with them thinking I was a pompous freak if they’d just play their roles like I told them to. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He had always been straightforward with me—more so than most of the others—but when he described the white mouse who had been given intelligence, he was as pompous and artificial as the others. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I'd expect that from the shallow, pompous best-friend character who would try to get between us, but not from the guy I was supposed to end up with before the credits rolled. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “You don’t say. Has another tree fallen upon the pompous old fool?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z There were some who admired him and others who considered him a pompous windbag. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That strange reluctance of his to talk about Rebecca, his stiff, funny, pompous way of making conversation whenever we had approached anything like intimacy. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I swallowed, remembered the pompous little man I had disliked so. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She must seem as pompous as that intern, putting on airs with that title. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z That's where the real clues were buried, among the veiled threats and pompous promises, the slogans and silliness in that hodgepodge of a will. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Using a formal style when an informal style is called for results in prose that seems stuffy, pompous, affected, haughty. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Percy had bustled over, rubbing his hands together and looking extremely pompous. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It meant acceptance by a more fashionable and amusing part of Cambridge and allowed him to dismiss the fact that he was not appreciated by a variety of dull and pompous dons. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z A similar confusion is satirized by Moliere when he has his pompous doctor announce that his sleeping potion works because of its dormitive virtue. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned an eclectic smattering of Commonwealth law from a traveling barrister too drunk or too pompous to realize he was lecturing an eight-year-old. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z An unavoidable sequel of the posterity delusion is the death of the writerly self, which depends too much on incoherence and inconsistency to remain pompous for long. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z That sounds lofty and possibly a bit pompous, but I just don't impose my political agenda on my work. Fiona Banner: fight and flight 2010-06-21T20:30:00Z Robert Greenblatt's post refers to a "sad state of affairs thanks to a pompous businessman turned reality TV star" who thinks that speaking his mind is "refreshing." NBC chairman blasts Trump in private Facebook post 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z He has been ambushed at least eight times by a Belgian pie-thrower who targets pompous personages, and he is the subject of no fewer than four sometimes-scathing biographies. A Polarizing French Philosopher Chooses War Zones Over Salons 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Hoisting a glass of champagne, he gives a pompous speech about being a Londoner, and the fact that this party is a day of “great historical significance for London”. The greatest film scenes shot on the River Thames – ranked! 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z “In the early twenty, thirty pages, he was so awful and pompous that I had to tone him down a bit,” Banville explained. John Banville on the Utter Mystery of Writing 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z She would not have been pompous enough to think this idea was an insult to her memory. Is the 'Beryl Bainbridge Booker' a good thing? 2011-02-13T00:05:32Z Shakespeare's Caesar is pompous and vainglorious, never more so than here, addressing his wife as if she were a public meeting. Political comparisons of Shakespeare are odorous 2013-04-19T20:00:21Z I never heard of Red Wing Peanut butter; however, I did hear of that pompous boor of anglo-saxon hegemony. How Red Wing Became William F. Buckley Jr.'s Favorite Peanut Butter 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Why I hate it: It sounds silly, feels pompous and even precious. Why the Word ‘Fiancé’ Is Falling Out of Fashion 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z “I’m not quite pompous and narcissistic enough to say, ‘Here is where bread is going,’” Mr. Myhrvold said. Using Science and History to Unlock the Secrets of Bread 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z “Aida” can feel like a series of pompous tableaux, but this production is never static, always evolving. Seattle Opera presents a spectacular “Aida” 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z He kept artistic freedom alive, always showing officialdom how pompous and ridiculous it was. Jiří Menzel: a daring, defiant beacon of European cinema 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Even in his office, the senator speaks in a pompous, stentorian voice seemingly inflated to a constant podium bluster. The Troubling Fate of a 1973 Film About the First Black Man in the C.I.A. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Like, how pompous and pretentious can we be by starting our first track with cheering and applause? Interview with Adult Swim's Tim Heidecker and Davin Wood 2011-03-21T12:21:00Z Woe betide the pompous, who found themselves skewered with barbs of humour, and the boring, who found themselves banished. Heidi Holland 2012-08-22T11:56:32Z "My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them," he said. Craig Ferguson: dragon slayer 2010-03-24T19:18:00Z I'm currently both dieting and liaising with the most pompous estate agent in England. Gimme gimme gimme: how to increase your willpower 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z It’s a fun movie, and a satisfying end to this grand, albeit silly and pompous, saga. 'Epic on every level' – readers' Avengers: Endgame reviews with spoilers 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Hastings lumps them, with most top media people, as “egotistical, vainglorious, pompous, insecure, corrupt.” ‘The Last Magazine,’ Michael Hastings’s Posthumous Novel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z James played the man-on-the-street foil to Hancock's pompous character, with viewers often siding with James. Missing Hancock's Half Hour to air 2014-04-08T15:55:20Z Privileged and pompous, Chauncey serves as the town’s Army recruiting officer. Books of The Times: ?The Cove,? a Novel by Ron Rash 2012-04-01T18:46:33Z It's irritating nonsense from the off, pompous and whingey, and Bardem, sporting a silly ponytail, looks like a baleful puppy throughout. Cannes round-up by Jason Solomon 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z “It’s in all her homes,” Elkann says, “and even though my grandparents had a different style of life, in huge homes with lots of staff, she always made things feel relaxed, never pompous.” T Magazine: Portrait of a Lady 2014-02-15T00:16:46Z Have you ever heard anything so deliciously pompous in your entire life? My new TV addiction: Bravo's "Work of Art" 2010-06-05T22:01:00Z Not that there was anything heavy or pompous about it: sitting with his back to the audience, Barenboim faced the woodwind section like friends at a formal but friendly dinner party. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z After King derided Morgan’s interview skills and called him pompous, Morgan responded on Twitter on Friday that King was a “graceless, petty little man.” Larry King and Piers Morgan trade jabs 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z But often I end up bluffing, or making pompous pronouncements unsupported by evidence. 'I've been good and bad, caring but useless': Tim Dowling on two decades of fatherhood 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Salman Rushdie can sometimes be a smidgen pompous, but Mayo, with his artlessly straightforward questions, managed to cajole the best out of him. A History of the World in 100 Objects; Gabby Logan; Simon Mayo Drivetime 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z The joke, of course, is that this “blond thing” is far more decent than the pompous old gent. Watch That Lady and See a Star 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z His interior monologue is in French because he thinks Spanish is too pompous in voice-overs, though the idea that anything would be too pompous for Victor is hard to believe. Review: In ‘The Film Critic,’ a Snob Is Tripped Up by His Heartstrings 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z And the author's tendency to use lines from Jesus' betrayal in the Bible to describe Pilot is both pompous and wildly tone-deaf. Comics: 'Batman: Noel' a dream for Christmas present 2011-11-11T20:50:04Z Jim’s cartoons roam freely but return again and again to pompous businessmen, critically but affectionately presented. Looking at the Field: Remembering James Stevenson 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Like most young artists, I was full of pompous idealism when I moved to New York City, in the summer of 1995. My Long, Unfinished Path to Becoming an American Citizen 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z It seems pompous for me to do that right now. Martin Starr would rather avoid the fame game 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z It also has the bonus of a strand of irreverent humour; essential, given how many scenes involve pompous privileged men in suits holding forth in stuffy, wood-panelled rooms. Toronto film festival 2017: a surge of woman power 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z However, despite her high-mindedness and the austerity of her vision, Shvarts's poetry is never portentous or pompous. Elena Shvarts obituary 2010-05-06T17:40:00Z Agathe alters her father’s will so that her pompous, lackluster husband, whom she wants to divorce, gets nothing. ‘The Man Without Qualities’ Acquires a New Volume 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z One, Christine Bonansea, French herself, does a fine impression of a portly, pompous Frenchman, more with body language than with costume. Dance Review: Catherine Galasso?s ?Bring on the Lumi?re!,? at Joyce SoHo 2012-01-31T23:19:58Z As if to highlight the artificial nature of newsworthy events, the story is punctuated with partly fictionalized fragments from the Deseronto Post, a mix of local reports, advertisements and pompous commentary on world events. ‘Tell,’ by Frances Itani 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Pickwick gradually becomes less pompous, humanized by Sam and by the course of human events. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 7: The Pickwick Papers 2012-01-30T18:40:16Z Everyone else in and around the nearby village is also played by Kinnear, including a young boy, a pompous vicar, a policeman, a publican and the naked man who appears outside the living room window. ‘Men’ Review: Putting the ‘Male’ in Malevolent 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z The plot’s mechanics get super-sticky, though, as the pompous Royal Messenger hangs around to enforce the “no dialogue” rule. The new farce ‘The Good Devil’ presents a banana peel of a plot 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z But the sitcom Mary felt overworked and overthought, too self-consciously calling back to the past with its newspaper office full of pompous egotists. Same role, different show: what happens when TV actors get stuck in a rut 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z This, Terry's first major prose work as far as I know, is, as pompous book reviewers like to say, A Major Achievement. tapestry by Philip Terry – review 2013-05-28T10:36:05Z “Well, let me ask you this,” the pompous Harry replies. ‘Inspector Ike’ Review: A Murder Mystery Send-Up, ’70s-TV style 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Menu design and pompous language The look and feel of a menu says far more. How to choose a great restaurant from reading the menu 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z But at 70, he was pompous and arrogant, given to flowery language and bombastic pronouncements. MacArthur and Truman face off in H.W. Brands' new history 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z I still occasionally burst out laughing just thinking of the protagonist’s nemesis Bertrand Welch, a pompous pseudo-intellectual who wears a beret and says “You sam” — a stretched out version of “You see.” Amy Chua: By the Book 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The diaries humanized a writer who, off the page and sometimes on it, could seem stuffy and pompous, driven by protocol and vanity. Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ Intimately Recaptures a Literary Giant 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Chief among the sprawling cast are the overbearingly pompous grocer, Herr Zangler, and his two naif assistants who seize the opportunity of their boss' day-long absence to hie off to Vienna on a romantic adventure. Few sparks in 'On the Razzle' at Theatre West 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z There were a fair number of failure models on view: the drunk, the incompetent, the placemen and the pompous. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z "The Revisionist," a play by actor-writer Jesse Eisenberg about a pompous, inconsiderate young American novelist who pays a visit to a Polish relative he barely knows, tests an audience's tolerance for implausibility from the start. 'The Revisionist' has an uninspired role in need of a rewrite 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z In any case, the narrator insists that the fate of the world hangs in the balance, in sentences that combine pompous syntax, palatial rhetoric, and dodgy grammar. The Sensational Idiocy of Donald Trump’s Propaganda Video for Kim Jong Un 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z But it took decades for Amis to reach that point, and he's pompous enough to believe he will be vindicated by posterity. Has any author's reputation fallen further or faster than Dostoevsky's? 2010-09-24T15:14:00Z They were remarkable performances: angry, erudite pieces delivered in a comically pompous voice that mocked its own pretensions. Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z I feel another pompous poem coming on The film begins with the aftermath of a road accident in the desert. Oliver Stone's The Doors: a flash in the pan that won't light anyone's fire 2011-02-17T12:07:12Z There's the salty patois of seasoned sailors, the pompous self-righteousness of the corrupt traders, and the error-strewn English of the Japanese translators. 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet': David Mitchell's Japan-set historical novel 2010-07-16T22:43:00Z But the play, by Timothy Mason, feels like something you’ve seen innumerable times before: a self-destructive, pompous former star too consumed by his ego to accept the help he’s being offered. | 'Summer Shorts 4': Drama by Neil LaBute in ?Summer Shorts? at 59E59 2010-08-08T22:50:00Z And for my money put out this pompous piece of pap. Kiss: monsters of rock 2012-07-12T19:30:00Z His accent is as plummy as that of the most pompous courtier, but the language it adorns is far from gentlemanly. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z On Broadway, at least, everyone loves a pompous, thin-skinned autocrat. Taran Killam Assumes the Throne in ‘Hamilton’ 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z The baron is often portrayed as a pompous, hefty, old fool. Review: A Radiant Revival of ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Hollywood teems with pompous self-appointed kings ruling their fiefs as they see fit. Review: ‘Rules Don’t Apply’ Features Warren Beatty as Howard Hughes 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z And for a moment the whole thing feels silly, pompous and a bit ridiculous, like a Mel Gibson movie. The 9/11 Memorial Museum doesn’t just display artifacts, it ritualizes grief on a loop The robotic plotting leaches the inventive energy from Rodriguez’s direction; the churning and pompous virtuosity of the action sequences show off expensive toys rather than their inventive use. “Alita: Battle Angel,” Reviewed: A Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron Robot Film with Too Much “Titanic” in Its DNA 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z She defies her pompous politician father, and uses her intelligence and resolve to overcome her fear and save hundreds of lives. For the Most Complex Heroines in Animation, Look to Japan 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Among the novel’s wittiest sections is a public debate with the pompous headmaster — a kind of early version of the Scopes Trial. Review | In Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Unsheltered,’ Trump is just the latest threat to Earth’s survival 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Here is a 33-year-old musical in which a middle-aged gay couple, one of whom is a drag performer, have the morality of their relationship challenged by a pompous bigot of a politician. At Signature, ‘La Cage’ transcends time 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z These parts of the book read like the typical memoirs of anyone who has an unexpected brush with fame: they are breathless, self-referential and more than a little pompous. The Democracy Project: a History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber – review 2013-03-28T16:10:18Z Maybe it’s too much, it sounds so pompous. Anna Karina on love, cinema and being Jean-Luc Godard's muse: 'I didn’t want to be alive anymore' 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z It doesn’t help that pompous, emotionally unstable Quebert is hard to stomach as he mourns the lost Nola, with whom he was planning to elope the day she vanished. Joel Dicker’s ‘Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair’: High emotion in much-hyped thriller In terms of evolution, Ghost embrace the melodramatic keyboard swirls and pompous arrangements of prog rock far more this time around; A somewhat risky step when glory beckons, butone that suits them. Ghost: Infestissumam – review 2013-04-11T21:00:01Z Critics described him variously as pompous, sycophantic, unctuous, oleaginous and obsequious. James Lipton, ‘Inside the Actors Studio’ Host, Dies at 93 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z But it's true: that self-hating pompous little dork Bill is going through the proper vampire channels to finally give the "true death" to Eric Northman. "True Blood" recap 4x6: Into the woods 2011-08-01T06:01:00Z But loyalists to the second President Bush regard him as a publicity-seeking blowhard — “pompous, self-centered, egotistical,” wrote Karl Rove, the former Bush political strategist, who was spared indictment in the leak inquiry. Red Carpet Spy 2010-09-24T19:40:00Z He’s a tad pompous in his beret, but Walbert never reduces any of her characters to satiric props, and here in his dusty studio, we see and hear the basic foundations of modern aesthetics. In ‘The Sunken Cathedral,’ Kate Walbert evokes Virginia Woolf 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z At their best – as on The Great Salt Lake, or Factory, the opening song from their forthcoming third album, Infinite Arms – Band of Horses pull off the feat of sounding grand but not pompous. Band of Horses 2010-04-14T21:35:00Z Clive, pitch-perfect from James Smith, is simply annoying, pompous, and genially oblivious to Simon's loathing. Grandma's House; True Stories: Digging for Grandad's Gold; Who Knows Best: Getting a Job 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Daisy Fellowes, a Singer sewing-machine heiress, magazine editor, and woman of daredevil chic, once declared, "A good hall is a pompous hall." 12 Stunning Entrance Halls 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Maybe it’s just his work this week, full of pompous Bhagavad-Gita quotes and Godwin’s law grandstanding. Mad Men Watch: Are You There, God? It’s Me, Mad Men 2013-06-03T14:34:29Z They are pompous fools, who are vain and mistaken in what they do. Alexander Goehr on his new King Lear opera, Promised End 2010-09-23T21:30:00Z In his little comedy Saint-Saëns recalls the conflict between voluptuous Philistines and sanctimonious Hebrews in his grand opera Samson et Dalila, and Gounod in La colombe likewise parodies his own more pompous Faust. La princesse jaune/La colombe; La rondine – review 2013-07-13T23:05:23Z Sinclair, a pompous control freak, is struggling to finish a novel so long delayed that his fans fear he has retired. ‘The Lesson’ Review: Carefully Taut 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z He wouldn't have taken seriously the many banal, pompous utterances of French politicians describing the team's humiliations as if this were a second 1940 fall of France. Is France in the grip of an existential crisis? 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z I don't mean it to sound pompous, but to have that there so there's some kind of record of like, “Oh yes, well, this is how this happened, and this is what it produces.” "A similar genesis": The Cure's Lol Tolhurst honors goth and its (spider)web of artistic connections 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z SWITZERLAND: 78sMy Name Is George - Crazy StarMy Name Is George, from Winterthur, have released their fifth studio record in which they again celebrate the pompous and melodic side of rock 'n' roll. March's best music from across the MAP 2013-04-02T15:55:27Z The BBC suggest that the change "... was aimed at making it sound less pompous or even messianic, although publisher Random House has described it as a 'minor editorial decision'." Predict Blair's Journey 2010-08-31T13:57:00Z Last week, for example, the show’s theme was Disney Villains, and with impressive panache Rigsby carried off a Gaston get-up from “Beauty and the Beast,” complete with pompous wig and frock coat. Perspective | Peloton’s Cody Rigsby is powerfully predictable on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z A good measure of how pompous an idea is is the length of time it takes to be parodied. Teaming Up, Together (Drake and Future) or Apart (Ryan Adams and Taylor Swift) 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z I thought pop was all about pompous, preening ninnies. The Darkness's Justin Hawkins: 'Contrary to expectations, you'd never catch me dogging' 2012-08-23T19:30:00Z The arrangements and tempos were sweeping but never pompous or overreaching, the acoustic balance between the singers and orchestra precise enough for you to hear every word that was sung. Music Review: Back at Midcentury, When Broadway Knew Romance 2011-03-22T20:15:03Z Yes, they are burdened by a pompous, needy father who places his faith in his fragile son. Review: ‘Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart’ 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z The Met was the big pompous, bureaucratic machine. Critic’s Notebook: Defending the Former American Folk Art Museum Building 2013-05-12T20:36:47Z I swear to defend self-esteem wherever it may be, without ever appearing pompous or idiotic. Neil Innes: And now for something completely different 2010-04-30T19:09:00Z “The whole story is told conversationally, but the letters are in a pompous, heightened style,” Mr. Kitson said. Exploring That Old Knee-Slapper, Suicide 2011-01-06T22:13:28Z Illustration for the Guardian by Neal Fox Contrary to popular belief, which has me, in the minds of most people, as a petulant, pompous twit, I am actually very quiet in restaurants. Digested read: Unbelievable! by Michael Winner 2010-12-06T21:00:00Z He’s described as “a vulgar human being,” “utterly distasteful,” “boorish, pompous” and “the worst man in America.” 'Silicon Valley' Recap: It's Not About How Much You Earn 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z Pryce is the Brit abroad, growing ever more pompous as Boy keeps him in captivity and eventually discovering a capacity for violence. Dark Blood - first look review 2012-10-01T12:54:20Z His Oxbridge courtliness had come to seem, rather than dignified, a bit pompous. ‘Anthony Powell’ Captures the Rich, Long Life of the Man Behind an Epic Series 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z In it, he plays the preternaturally pompous King George III. Jonathan Groff’s Life Imitates His Art 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Best moment: The delightfully pompous Walter, in bouffant wig and skinny tie, demonstrating the range of subjects available to standups: "from duvets to Jewish people." New Edinburgh act of the day: Benny Boot 2011-08-09T13:43:08Z Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker was iconic, the script is smart and manages to feel epic without becoming pompous and the movie overall holds up remarkably well upon repeated viewings. Which of today’s superhero films will become classics? 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z She is a good interviewer and a competent journalist, one who is able to maneuver past the inflated egos and pompous grandstanding of all the candidates, not just Trump. Donald Trump and Megyn Kelly face off: Tonight’s Fox News debate puts the notorious rivals face-to-face after a 7-month standoff 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z And in those situations I became really like a pompous nine-year-old. Kristen Stewart: 'Twilight was so intense. I'm still a very intense person' 2012-05-17T19:00:02Z “I don’t want to bore people or be too pompous,” Mr. Adrià said. In Spain, a Restaurant Reimagines the Famed El Bulli 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z And be as grandiloquent, as pompous, as affected as possible: if Dan Brown's touched you in the place of your own essence, you really need to tell the world about it. 'The most gifted writer I've ever read': outblurb the Grossman fans 2010-07-06T09:25:00Z Who is the foremost pompous, preening ninny in pop? The Darkness's Justin Hawkins: 'Contrary to expectations, you'd never catch me dogging' 2012-08-23T19:30:00Z He was the vacillating prince of “Hamlet” in 1975 and that pompous windbag Polonius in the same play 33 years later. | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z My friend said, finally, that it looked exactly right: the kind of house a child would find impressive but that’s not actually great — drab, slightly pompous. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z "Unless you hear it ironically, it's a tremendously pompous title," he says. Jonathan Franzen: 'I must be near the end of my career ? people are starting to approve' 2010-09-24T23:03:00Z Agatha Christie sneered at Poirot and said that he was an egotistical, pompous little poppy or words to that effect. "Magpie Murders" creator on the finale revelation: "The anagram is disgusting" 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z He’s been waiting for the chance to pitch Spock against Kylo Ren in a true clash of the pompous space opera titans. Hollywood blockbuster mashups better than Men in Black v 21 Jump Street 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z "I know it sounds pompous," he says, "but I am much more aware of the fact that I'm handing on a torch to a younger generation than when I began." King's College choir: meet the choirmaster 2012-12-19T19:30:01Z The pompous king, who was also a notable dog breeder, greatly adored the spaniels, allowing almost a dozen of them to lie in his bed and frolic around the royal quarters. The value of Pumpkin on "The Gilded Age," descended from a breed that's all about the good life 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z This Queen is no bright, warm Helena Bonham Carter from The King’s Speech; she’s portrayed as a pompous prig who, in one of her pique fits, shouts at George to “Please stop stuttering!” Hyde Park on Hudson: FDR and the Stammering King 2012-09-12T17:00:19Z He watered his drinks, hauled him off to bed and called him down from his perch when he got too pompous. ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ by Jay Parini 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Did you have fun creating such a pompous character and his awful writing? "Magpie Murders" creator on the finale revelation: "The anagram is disgusting" 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z On arrival you are faced with a brick gateway that, without being pompous or intimidating, communicates that this is somewhere important. Michael Gove's standardised schools not such a class act 2013-04-13T23:05:30Z Elsewhere, tweeters singled out the offending armwear as pompous or pretentious, charging that she appears to think of herself as royalty. The Uproar Over Amal Clooney’s White Gloves 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z On one viewing, at least, it is a typically impenetrable Maddin film: zany one minute, pompous the next. Review: In ‘The Forbidden Room,’ a Submarine Full of Dark Imagery 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z His replacement, Tomasz Konieczny, was excellent, bringing stentorian power and unusual dignity to this prophet, who pays with his life for resisting Salome’s twisted sexual needs and usually comes off as a pompous fanatic. Music Review: Vienna State Opera Presents ‘Wozzeck’ and ‘Salome’ 2014-03-02T17:51:50Z Dark Knight is a brilliant piece of Reagan-era fiction and Watchmen is very, very clever in its architecture, but both books felt pompous and concept album-y to me as a young man in the 80s. Anti-superhero Zenith returns to print 2013-05-29T11:00:03Z Although he'd tried initially to write a memoir, he abandoned the attempt when he discovered that his autobiographical voice was "awful: judgmental and pompous". A life in writing: Gerard Woodward 2012-11-23T22:55:10Z Stephen Poliakoff's drama has received a right old bashing from the critics for being a bit pompous and a lot boring. Catch-up TV guide: from Nashville to The Jewel In The Crown 2013-03-02T06:00:05Z Andrew Shore gives a masterly, pompous performance as the crusty, deluded Doctor Bartolo, his enunciation a model of clarity. The Barber of Seville; Emerson Quartet – review 2013-03-03T00:06:19Z Such false and pompous dignity affects the entire production as well as the plot. The Enemy of Youth 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Target someone who is usually taken seriously, even if only by themselves Lindsey Lohan is too risible a figure at this stage to generate the frisson that comes from negatively reviewing more pompous targets. From Franzen to Fieri, the five rules of the review as takedown 2012-11-28T17:36:00Z The comedian Jack Black plays the pompous ruler and former Imperial officer Captain Bombardier, while the pop star Lizzo is his extravagantly attired wife, the Duchess. ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: Nuts and Revolts 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z As a child she created a world presided over by her beloved but pompous bear, Bruin, and an entire language – bear Latin – called "Eugrisy". Sally Laird obituary 2010-08-10T17:19:00Z In the series, there are hints at a similar relationship between Lucy and her father, a pompous American arms dealer, played by David Costabile. In ‘Little Birds,’ Anaïs Nin Erotica Gets a Revolutionary New Context 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Aesthetically, the Titanic Memorial was a more beautiful object than the pompous, marble-clad temple to art. When our icons tumble 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z When I talk too much or get a bit too pompous — which is something I’ve tried to learn not to do. As Far as Luc Tuymans Is Concerned, Nothing Is Original 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z And the booming bass Walter Fink held the stage as the pompous Doctor, who pays Wozzeck to be a subject of quack medical experiments. Music Review: In ?Wozzeck? at the Met, the Night Belonged to Levine 2011-04-07T12:58:54Z Cumberbatch, by contrast, is dizzyingly confident, second-guessing questions and impersonating his director, quick to skewer himself as a "pompous" actor. Frankenstein: Man or monster? 2011-01-17T21:44:01Z So Michelle’s always thinking about sex, and Erin, quite a pompous character, loves the idea of it and writes about being a child of conflict and all of that. Lisa McGee Found it Hard to Say Goodbye to Her ‘Derry Girls’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, Mr. Roth clogs the segment with a lot of ineffectual Godardian posturings and peoples it with a handful of pompous, affected graduate school types. Review: ‘The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger’ Lauds a Renaissance Man 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Then again, it was Duchamp's nature to play on words, make jokes and poke fun at the pompous art world. Putting modern art on the map 2012-08-24T20:35:17Z So it invites a pompous answer and there it is. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z I’m afraid that I am pompous enough to suggest, earnestly, that “I.W.I.W.S.M.” reads as an amazing reckoning with what Harold Bloom calls the anxiety of influence. How beabadoobee’s “I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus” Reckons with a Rock Idol 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The dramatic fountains at the World War II Memorial are costly and complex, but without them, the pompous classical plaza is hopelessly barren. One of D.C.’s great fountains comes back to life, but it shouldn’t have taken so long 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The Batman we met in The Lego Movie aways seemed an unlikely candidate for his own solo film, a pompous jerk who was more Flash Thompson than Bruce Wayne. The Lego Batman Movie: five things we learned from new trailer 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z I am so sick of these pompous and venerated men. 5 Women Accuse the Architect Richard Meier of Sexual Harassment 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z "Watching an actor play a television anchor who is manipulating the news is different than watching an intellectual attack a television program in a pompous voice at a university," the critic wrote. Mexican filmmaker Luis Estrada's satirical agenda hits home 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z The pompous psychoanalysts who inhabit the film attend auctions where they purchase high-priced antiques. | ?Special Treatment?: Isabelle Huppert in ?Special Treatment? - Review 2011-08-25T23:05:36Z Those who don’t call him a buffoon, clownish, arrogant and pompous. Boris Johnson, London’s lively mayor, writes about Churchill and muses about his future This is a model of what public art ought to be: not a pompous statue but a contribution to living in the world. Martin Creed's stairway to?heaven 2011-08-01T20:31:00Z Some of Caesar's most popular bits were built around pompous or outlandish characters - such as Professor von Votsisnehm - in which he spoke in a thick accent or mimicked foreign languages in comic but convincing gibberish. Comic great Sid Caesar of "Your Show of Shows" dies at 91 2014-02-13T00:23:23Z The facade is not thin veneer or glass but brushed Milford Pink stone milled at the same granite quarry John Russell Pope used in the 1930s to design the museum’s pompous Central Park West facade. Wonder and Awe in Natural History’s New Wing. Butterflies, Too. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Maxine Frost highly accredits McEwan's writing abilities, however felt this particular novel's lack of structure and "pompous" protagonists let it down. Reader reviews roundup 2013-03-01T16:44:19Z Xavier is finding it difficult to cook for anyone, much less a pompous politician — he is resistant to being pushed around, his wife has died and he is in a wrestling match with addiction. A Magic-Filled Island Where Life’s Struggles Rage 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z “There’s hardly any subject about which pundits, critics and writers are more solemn and pompous than the business of making people laugh,” said Bradshaw. Woody Allen's Annie Hall voted funniest screenplay ever written 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z I have a terrible fear of hearing this back and thinking, "You pompous idiot . . ." Bill Nighy on being an alien rock star in Showtime's "The Man Who Fell to Earth" 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Perhaps most memorably in “Anchorman,” when Mr. Ferrell’s pompous Burgundy, as the No. 1 newsman in 1970s San Diego, escorts an ambitious newswoman on a city tour. Film: Adam McKay Directs Cops Under Arrested Adolescence 2010-08-01T01:53:00Z But the movie is also a hall of mirrors, with Welles playing “Orson Welles” — at once pompous and self-deprecating, a celluloid Santa Claus with a full bag of tricks. ‘Othello’: Shakespeare’s Tragedy Was Orson Welles’s Triumph 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z And so many prospective parents feel paralyzed, trying to find the elusive name that is exotic yet not bizarre, classic yet not pompous, on trend but not trendy. First Person: The New Baby-Name Anxiety 2013-05-31T20:39:26Z Greg Mehrten, kitted out in matronly drag, draws out of his portrait of Trilling the pompous cadences of a New York intellectual who balances haughty convention with revolutionary fervor. When feminist debate turns into an ideological free-for-all: It's the Wooster Group's 'Town Hall Affair' 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z “The voice is neither patronizing, nor is it intimidating, nor is it pompous, overly dramatic or actorish. Despite this, it is interesting.” The Story of a Voice: HAL in ‘2001’ Wasn’t Always So Eerily Calm 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive It's a bloated, pompous, unbalanced film, which looks great but has nothing going on beneath the surface. Oliver Stone's The Doors: a flash in the pan that won't light anyone's fire 2011-02-17T12:07:12Z Myshkin remains caught in between, craving the affection of a delightful mother who inexplicably leaves him and the approval of a pompous father who constantly criticizes him. Review | Decades after his mother’s disappearance, a man searches the past for clues 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Political spouses typically find themselves referred to as a candidate’s “secret weapon,” trusted with “humanizing” their otherwise remote/robotic/pompous partners. A reporter, a photographer, a PR handler and Frank Fiorina walk into Costco, and . . . 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Possibly a bit pompous, then, but also intelligent, original drama with personality. Dancing on the Edge; The Year of Making Love – TV review 2013-02-05T07:00:11Z Our first imperative was to eliminate “clutter,” which Bill regarded as “the disease of American writing . . . unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.” Tuesdays with William Zinsser 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z A rock documentary can be a dull thing – pompous blokes talking about the days they were less old, the good times, a load of names, Woody this, Chuck that … But not this one. TV review: The Killing III; Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane; The Secret of Crickley Hall; Him & Her 2012-11-18T22:30:02Z The scene, based on a real exchange, “made the person seem quite a bit more pompous than I think of myself as being,” Mr. Miller said. A Wall Street Giant Makes a $75 Million Bet on Academic Philosophy 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z And the diva is seen not as pretentious, pompous or ridiculous, but simply as another kind of actress, wearing a different kind of mask. Review | Yes, Toulouse-Lautrec was an alcoholic cabaret creature. But his art ranged far beyond the demimonde. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z In the first season episode titled "The Gunslinger" he encounters a band during a bounty hunting mission with a pompous rookie eager to prove himself. "The Mandalorian" message for 2020: “If we fight amongst ourselves, the monster will kill us all” 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z “I don’t want to look pompous, you know,” Mr. Benson said. Harry Benson, an Early Photographer of Trump, Looks Back and Forward 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z But he was never one to act like a pompous celebrity. Remmy Ongala obituary 2011-01-11T18:10:45Z Often called "pompous, rude and brash" by others, Winner said that, underneath, he was actually a shy and lonely person. Obituary: Michael Winner 2013-01-21T15:27:33Z He’s this pompous, rational know-it-all, but by the end is a gibbering idiot with his thumb in his mouth. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Not because you are a pompous berk who always demands to speak to "whoever is in charge", but because 73.4% of all problems in restaurants originate in poor organisation, training or recruitment. Restaurants: how to complain... without losing your cool 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Aydin, who spends his days writing pompous editorials for the local paper, thinks she is wasting her time. ‘Winter Sleep,' a Nuri Bilge Ceylan Take on Turkish Life 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z I need a premise that gives Bob's pompous behaviour and endless need for self-promotion some sort of platform, yet I didn't want him to leave Broughty Ferry – and the spam emails wouldn't work on TV. Bob Servant Independent: the don of Dundee 2013-01-15T06:30:01Z The images evoke curiosity and awe without being pompous about it. ‘Fire Will Come’ Review: An Arsonist Returns Home to the Forest 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z It stars a titanic yet exquisitely subtle actor, Emil Jannings, as the proud and pompous head doorman at a luxurious Berlin hotel. Five Films to Stream on Kanopy While New Yorkers Still Can 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z It would be pretty pompous of me to say that another season of financial stability is not something that would be appealing. Cole Sprouse on Finding a Healthy Balance in Hollywood 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z The Telegraph christened it, “The most pompous event in the history of music.” Do Louis CK and Kanye West belong in the pantheon of artistic hubris? 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Is there not something inherently pompous about diary writing? Five great published diaries 2012-07-16T11:00:00Z Grieving for her dead co-worker, she goes in search of a "pompous trembling worm". Rewind TV: The Kennedys; The Crimson Petal and the White; Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis; My Brother the Islamist 2011-04-09T23:05:33Z And while he may be pompous, at times, it has nothing to do with his fancy lineage. If "The Beatles: Get Back" has a villain, it might be Michael Lindsay-Hogg 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z They've left plenty of it alone, including a somewhat pompous fountain that nonetheless attracted and soothed the crowds. Liz Diller: 'We thought we would have been fired a long time ago' 2012-12-30T00:05:24Z You sound pompous or confused as soon as you open your mouth. Emma Donoghue: ‘I’ve ended up having a family and being a lesbian.' 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Elizabeth mocks it: “God, listen to this—how pompous. ‘Bach is never simple, but that is one reason why we should all try to master him.’ Unheard Melodies: On Helen Garner’s “The Children’s Bach” 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z He’s genial and open and, underneath it all, not the slightest bit pompous. John Lithgow: 'When the Brexit movie lands, I call dibs on Boris Johnson' 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z He was only thirty-four years old, but already crusty and uncompromising, and, in a defensive way, weirdly pompous. Memories of V. S. Naipaul 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z When his opera Nixon in China was first performed in 1988, the critic Edward Rothstein said that the music managed to be both vulgar and pompous, which was quite a feat. America's composer 2010-06-19T23:01:00Z I needed to relax, be less pompous, I needed to call him Tom. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z In an upcoming episode, Pied Piper’s sales department commissions a pompous, vacuous ad. How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z When we drove out of there four days later, I had a pompous little smile on my face. Meeting his family, disowned by my own 2014-01-08T23:59:00Z The depressing thing is that he really hated parliament, and everything he says about it is how awful it was - how pompous, vain the MPs were, how foolishly they spoke. AUDIO: Charles Dickens: Parliament reporter 2012-11-21T08:54:55Z Ms. Murphy was chillier, sometimes withheld, perhaps on account of a recent injury; she captured Gamzatti’s pompous air, but I craved more bite, more wickedness, in her dancing. American Ballet Theater Performs ‘La Bayadère’ 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z In 2012, we started doing a tour, and we started to take our work and our name and our—I won’t say fate, that’s a bit pompous, maybe—but to take ourselves back. “Most musicians have nothing to say. They’re not very interesting, and they’re not very smart”: Refused’s raw, radical politics return for the Bernie Sanders generation 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Every scrap of land was covered in vines, and at every turn there was another pompous chateau trumpeting its existence with tall gates, formal parterres or Palladian columns. Médoc, From Grand Cru to Country Cooking 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Let's see: a cold land, frosty mytho-creatures, icy art direction, a woozily pompous atmosphere — could this be an unwished-for sequel to The Last Airbender? Thor: A Minor Marvel 2011-05-04T17:05:00Z It’s bigger, more pompous than on the first album. The Very Best: The Swedish-African connection 2012-08-09T17:15:00Z Mr. Baldwin also gives the pompous city he adores the ribbing it deserves. New Books by Sadie Jones, Laurent Binet and More 2012-05-30T21:07:15Z Under their breaths they pick apart the pompous eulogy, and though they’re misbehaving we like them instantly for their wit and their warm, easy affection. 'Going to a Place Where You Already Are' is headed toward a really good place 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z I fell in love with Clive in my first year while I was playing an Ibsen ingénue and he a pompous vicar in Pillars of the Community. Once upon a life: Margaret Drabble 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z But it was never quite pompous, as the rebellious streak was irrepressible. Does Stirling work? 2011-04-01T23:05:23Z So the concert officially ended with a version of “My Funny Valentine,” elegant and concise, played in duo with Mr. Keezer: a slow drift of sparks in the wake of a pompous bombardment. Music Review: Chris Botti on Trumpet at the Beacon Theater 2012-07-25T21:34:55Z He is filled with ambiguities – he is well-meaning as well as pompous, oddly kind as well as superior, nervous as well as resentful. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z He's also obsessed with astrology, space and UFOs, but what comes across most in his music as Big Black Delta is his unashamed love of electronic rock at its most pompous and preposterous. New band of the day – Big Black Delta (No 1,332) 2012-08-16T15:21:42Z “We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.” William Zinsser, Author of ‘On Writing Well,’ at His Work 2013-04-28T16:18:48Z Springsteen is principled, decent, loyal, outspoken without being pompous and he still looks good in jeans. Why does Bruce Springsteen make middle-aged men behave like teenagers at their first pop show? 2012-06-21T09:34:56Z Without the balancing voice of a contemporary songwriter, it registered as pompous and outdated, characterized by what The New York Times critic Walter Kerr called “echoes of a vanishing style.” Bob Dylan’s First Musical Had a Devil of a Time 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Laughing at how stupid, pompous or corrupt they are doesn’t seem to break the spell of their power. When We Laugh at Nazis, Maybe the Joke’s on Us 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The pointedly outdated gender stereotypes are practically highlighted in yellow, to decreasing payoffs, and Mr. Wilson’s performance is too indebted to Will Ferrell’s pompous, clueless alpha males. ‘Space Station 76’ Is a Mash-Up of Science Fiction Parody 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z But Gill was not a fan of Coldplay, revealing in a 2008 interview that he found them “pompous, mawkish, and unbearably smug” and called the band the “sonic equivalent of wilted spinach.” Andy Gill, guitarist for punk band Gang of Four, has died 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z To Mr. Ryskamp, picking up drawings was a lark, not a pompous undertaking driven by academic considerations. Auctions: Charles Ryskamp: The Collector Who Liked to Be Amused 2011-01-28T12:30:07Z The film focuses more on one character’s moral defects than the sketchy project overall, leading to a conclusion that feels unsatisfying at best and pompous at worst. ‘The Immaculate Room’ Review: A Blank Slate 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Before leaving, Levit played a few bars of what sounded like a slightly pompous waltz. Close at Hand with the Pianist Igor Levit 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The idea being education, the station being the school that pompous village leader Akbar Khan is secretly intent on blowing up. An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk; Archive on 4: radio review 2013-04-19T06:00:07Z While the Poirot audiences are used to is peculiar, pompous and obsessed with order, he is above all else charming. Kenneth Branagh’s "Death on the Nile" forgets Agatha Christie was a master of the murder mystery 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Goggins, representing cosplaying soldiers and desktop tyrants, leaps into his pompous hero with comedic vigor. "I'm a Virgo": Boots Riley's incredible, ungentle giant swing at late capitalism 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Nisrin’s grandfather, a pompous armchair pundit, shrinks to a tiny figure adrift on rolling swells during a family argument about Bangladesh. The Children of 9/11 Come of Age 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Unless considering such an obviously non-racial joke racist is racist...Usual horrible and pompous... Review: ‘Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates,’ Antics to Not Love nor Cherish 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z In three shows this week, he played a diverse gang of scene stealers, including a pompous Italian Player King and a sneering French maid out for revenge. The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z The estimates for the Thursday auction range from $3,100 for a 1760s British figure of a liveried servant to $124,000 for a 1750s Bavarian white statue of a wife fleeing her pompous husband. Antiques: ‘Homefront & Battlefield’ at American Textile History Museum 2012-06-28T21:22:20Z It’s crowded with noble, villainous and comical characters: police spies and magistrates; radical firebrands and anxious liberals; pompous officials and plain-spoken workers; servants, tradesman, gossips, thugs and children. ‘Peterloo’ Review: Political Violence of the Past Mirrors the Present 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z For a few minutes it seemed as if footage of Bieber karate-kicking photographers might herald some sort of lighter, less pompous phase of the evening. Justin Bieber; Carly Rae Jepsen – review 2013-03-10T00:05:31Z Which prompts the question: what kind of pompous, Neighbourhood Watch killjoy demands that the most famous music festival in the world turn it down a bit? Glastonbury 2010: Dos and don'ts for headliners 2010-06-22T10:55:00Z “The French were pompous and pretentious,” she said in the press of the day, referring to presentations that included showgirls, space ships and a pumpkin coach. American Fashion?s Coming-Out in Paris 2011-01-12T22:38:19Z Chinese bloggers derided him then as “a master of directing totalitarian group calisthenics,” whose “blockbusters create standards for pompous state ceremonies,” and similar criticisms are now surfacing. ?The Flowers of War,? a Chinese Epic With Many Back Stories 2011-12-17T03:32:15Z I think the publishing world’s obsession with New York City is pompous and a little smug. Dear Match Book: I’m Seeking Satirical, Semifantastical and Stand-Out Literary Fiction 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z She loathes him – for his gentlemanliness and solemnity, his passiveness, his "pompous self-sufficiency", his "brilliance" and the "immorality" of the views which that brilliant mind emits. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z "But I am not so pompous as to think that is any kind of a mission of mine," he said. In 'Parts Unknown,' Anthony Bourdain is not a man on a mission 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z I regularly visit such exhibition spaces in London and beyond, and read – with total, dulling indifference – the often pompous ramblings of what Alix Rule and David Levine call International Art English. Writing an artist statement? First ask yourself these four questions 2013-04-15T11:56:25Z If a pompous priest, a policeman, some authority figure, falls flat on their face, that's funny. Terry Deary: The man behind the Horrible Histories 2012-07-13T23:10:02Z Defensive and often pompous, they veer between self-justification and glum resignation. The Killers of the ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang and the Cops Who Went After Them 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Jarry’s play was developed from sketches assembled by a conspiracy of his fellow students at a French lycée, devoted to the portrayal of their pompous physics teacher as a bizarre zoological specimen. Review: ‘Ubu Roi,’ Mom and Dad’s Party of Grown-Up Grotesques 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Obviously, the danger here is listening to pompous critics like me and getting all self-conscious, where you start thinking about what you’re doing. Brandy Clark, the Raymond Carver of the Hot Country charts: “I live in a world where we have to tell a whole story in just three minutes” 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z He shows us the North only through the fog of its bungling brutality and pompous pronouncements. ‘American War’ follows today’s vitriol to a dystopian future 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z When Malli's mother throws herself in the path of the governor's motorcade, Scott delivers a pompous lecture to his soldiers that declares his brown subjects' lives are worth less than a bullet. Forget "Top Gun." "RRR" is the ultimate summer movie – explosive, inspiring & with catchy dance beat 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z He was inquisitive, challenging of pompous authority, and a beautiful crafter of television prose. Letter: How Ian Breach confused Christmas TV schedulers 2013-02-21T17:30:23Z Wine drinkers in popular culture often hold their wine glasses by the bowl, by design, I suspect, to avoid appearing pompous to the audience. A Starter Kit for Aspiring Wine Lovers 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z His performance never feels stock or dogmatic, and his B avoids becoming a pompous bore. | 'Cool Blues': A Jazzman Encounters His Life and Death 2011-03-30T22:00:46Z Edison’s least favorite people were union leaders and pompous academics — the sort who’d never solved a technical problem or built anything of value with their hands. An Inventor’s Life That Was Incandescent Any Way You Look at It 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z In those days of unlimited confidence in a better tomorrow, perky ingénues still swooned into the arms of strapping heroes mouthing pompous blandishments, and happily ever after proceeded like clockwork. Music Review: ?Best of Lerner and Loewe,? at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-20T22:14:00Z Is it pompous, or just further evidence of the endless evolution of American English? Noted: Americans Are Barmy Over Britishisms 2012-10-10T20:37:21Z Working in this vernacular mode, Hokusai eschewed high-flown rhetoric and pompous symbolism in favour of images that entertain with anecdote and delight with their bright colour and eye-catching compositions. Riding the crest 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Despite the beatings she receives for talking back, she shreds her captors’ pompous class-warfare cant, refusing to let them imagine that the injustices they’ve suffered absolve them. Book review: ‘An Untamed State,’ by Roxane Gay Davies delivers homilies in some of his verses, but he is never pompous or pious. Poem of the week: School's Out by WH Davies 2010-03-29T10:09:00Z As that implies, they reject pompous ideas of the painter as designer, or the abstractionist as seer. Off the scale: why Gerhard Richter towers above the artists of today 2010-11-22T14:51:00Z Some reflect the bludgeoning, dulling force of directorial will to bravura exertions that seemingly declare, with the pompous vanity of each image, that they are important, that they are artists. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Kelsey Grammar as Frasier is a master of the art of taking his character as far out as possible – whether he's being unbearably pompous, pretentious, insecure or heartbreaking – and bringing him home to land safely. Frasier 2010-08-10T07:30:00Z His career since then: Groff’s most recent onstage role was a full 180 from the pompous caped monarch he played several years ago. Where You Can See the Stars of ‘Hamilton’ Now 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z “Certain songs require that sort of pompous flair. I had to work like crazy.” Was Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Originally ‘Mongolian Rhapsody’? 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Dwarfed by the vaulted ceilings and luxuriously appointed walls, he looks very small in a room and a world that are as empty as they are pompous. Movie Review: ‘The French Minister’ Lampoons Power Brokers 2014-03-21T00:27:36Z His style is vigorous, intimate and formal too, when it needs to be, without being stiff or pompous. David Ferry Won the National Book Award in His 80s. In His 90s, He Has Translated Virgil. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Colbert will retire his Comedy Central character — a pompous, obtuse conservative TV host — but keep interviews in the CBS show. TCA 2014: CBS chief Nina Tassler grilled on casting diversity 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z His last known interview, granted to Rolling Stone in 1977, is arrogant and pompous even for that magazine and time. Books Of the Times: ‘Night Film’ Is Marisha Pessl’s New Novel 2013-08-14T20:32:22Z Vesta cries over her lost life and wishes she had “never met that awful, deleterious, pompous man.” Ottessa Moshfegh’s Latest Is a Murder Mystery, but Where’s the Body? 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Crouch's version of Twelfth Night's pompous steward brings out the Bard's darker humour and more disturbing moments. Edinburgh festival 2011: Soak it up! 2011-07-17T20:29:01Z I became pompous and difficult about getting it right – as if she might walk in at any moment and nail me to the desk. U Be Dead's inconvenient truths 2010-09-01T20:59:00Z It’s about reducing for personal enlightenment and pompous blog posts, it’s not about arguing for a more equitable society in which people consume proportionate to their needs. Minimalism: another boring product wealthy people can buy 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z It was pompous and highbrow in a way that many of today’s mainstream sitcoms just aren’t, and often treated its episodes like a grand repertory stage farce. Shrinking returns: analysing the pros and cons of a Frasier reboot 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Jesus’ people are collectively known as the Hilltop Colony, a relatively feeble bunch led by a pompous prig in a pretty old house on a hill. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 11: The Hilltop Colony 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Since starting his own brand, however, he has erred on the side of the pompous. Tom Ford Exhumes the 1990s and It’s Almost Fabulous 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z His suit-wearing businessmen often appeared haughty or pompous; his other men could seem timid or perplexed or awkward. William King, Sculptor Who Used Wit, Dies at 90 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z "I'm just taking away all the wallpaper and mantelpieces, all the kind of pompous stuff we associate with grand Shakespeare productions, and try to go as simple as possible." Bloom, Rashad in Broadway's 'Romeo and Juliet' 2013-04-01T14:43:07Z The story, set in 1855, involves a strapping young coachman named Hans, who’s driving a pompous businessman to Vienna when a wheel breaks on the open road. What to Stream This Weekend: “The Bartered Bride,” A Brilliant, Rarely Seen Max Ophüls Opera-Based Musical 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z I find them pompous, vacuous, and vaguely enraging. The Disquieting Power of Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hitler’s Court Conductor 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z “It would be so pompous of me to say so.” Rhyme or Reason: Alex Dimitrov?s Wilde Boys Salon, for Poetry or Maybe a Hot Date 2011-11-02T23:03:56Z Tudyk is at it again, except that this time he’s playing a towering, pompous alien scornful of the humans he’s been sent to exterminate. When a Break From TV Brings More TV 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z That blasé attitude infected other performers, most notably Sting, who was emotionally absent during his stiff, pompous renditions of “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning” and “Witchcraft.” Review: Stars Pay Tribute to Frank Sinatra 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The nation’s oldest and most pompous power conference never will be the same again. USC and UCLA will enter a weakened Big Ten in the midst of an ugly Michigan mud fight 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z Lennon, who was celebrating his 24th birthday, retreated to bed early with toothache - but not before causing great amusement with jokes including an imitation of a pompous Yorkshire mill owner. 'We had to give up our Halifax bedroom for the Beatles' 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z “He’s proved it, so now he feels like he’s a little older and wiser. … He’s still that affable, lovable, pompous person that you can still make fun of. It’s relatable because nobody relates to it.” 'Frasier' is back, but it's evolved, much like Kelsey Grammer's 'lovable, pompous' character 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z During the course of the TV show “Frasier,” its main character was described as pompous, loquacious, overanalytical, pushy, pretentious, bossy, huffy, vain … and those are just the words used by his loved ones. Why ‘Frasier,’ now 30, is the great Seattle sitcom 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z “I don’t mean to sound pompous,” the actor said at a two-hour Mumbai news conference after the incident, “but Shah Rukh Khan doesn’t need publicity. I am too big a star for that.” Meet Shah Rukh Khan: If you haven't heard of the Bollywood superstar, it's about time you did 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z "My speech today will not include new, pompous benefits," Mitsotakis said. Greek PM pledges state reforms, disaster relief within fiscal limits 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z With regards to Mr Crowe, Mr Haigh, who went on to work in the private sector and retired 13 years ago, said: "He was pompous; whatever he says goes." The 'formidable' Essex architect behind school concrete crisis 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z LB has few prospects — and certainly is not interested in pompous developer Darcy Wong, who is as supercilious as he is wealthy. Think you've had enough Jane Austen remakes? This novel will make you think again 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z The artist added that he did not want to come across as "pompous", so would only use the title on a "very formal occasion". Grayson Perry accepts knighthood from Prince of Wales at Windsor Castle 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z "Nobody can play a pompous young adult with a disability better than me," Jack jokes. Britain's Got Talent star Jack Carroll on new BBC Three show Mobility 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Favorite targets were the rich and pompous and vain. Barry Humphries, performer who embodied Dame Edna, dies at 89 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z “When I came to Victory, it was proud not pompous, proud that we helped others but never took help ourselves.” 'Take back what the devil stole': A Black church struggles to find answers after fire 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z “He never lost his ability to be good and nice and was never pompous,” said Jay Heck, the head of lobbying group Common Cause Wisconsin and a personal friend of Earl’s for decades. Former Wisconsin Gov. Tony Earl has died at age 86 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z "What a pompous way to live your life, walking around thinking, what will my legacy be? Whatever, I'll be dead. I care about now. I care about the living." JK Rowling dismisses backlash over trans comments: 'I don't care about my legacy' 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z He called Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican, “pedantic, self-righteous and pompous,” and urged her to “learn from the Palestinian people” and resign because of “repeated moral failings,” the article said. Biden withdraws nomination of human-rights candidate over Israel remarks 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Over the next half century, he brought to life a parade of buttoned-down aristocrats, pompous executives and genteel society men who wore their business suits like armor. Charles Kimbrough, ‘Murphy Brown’ actor with prim persona, dies at 86 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z A system arrogant about its pedigree, pompous in its outlook, homogenous in its make up. Chris Mason: Civil service is poor, pompous and arrogant, say two former bosses 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z “Less than a month has passed since the pompous announcement of Kherson annexation and solemn concert on the Red Square, as the self-proclaimed “city administration”...ceremoniously evacuates in anticipation of Ukrainian justice. 'Reality can hurt', Ukrainian official tells Russia over Kherson 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z “Thankfully, Carson demonstrated grace and class in response to this pompous, unprofessional mess,” Wright tweeted at the time. LOVERRO: Eventually Rivera will have to look in the mirror for answers to team’s failures 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z I think we can safely say that Democrats no longer need to listen to the religious right's pompous braying about "character," or to lend them any credence on moral issues. Herschel Walker, Donald Trump, and the Christian right's long, slow self-destruction 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z In Ukraine, the heavy Russian bombardment of civilian targets combined with an annexation ceremony in Moscow that was seen as pompous and even delusional elicited a stream of venomous, angry commentary. Moscow Pounds Regions in Eastern Ukraine, Then Declares Them Part of Russia 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z A secondary character, a pompous author, has already written his Nobel acceptance speech — in Swedish. Javier Marías, celebrated Spanish author, dies at 70 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Feminist author Naomi Alderman, for instance, describes one pompous male character as having a voice that “boomed from the bottom of his beard.” Perspective | Miss Marple is Agatha Christie’s best character. A new book reminds us why. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z “We will not write anything pompous today,” the ministry said. With Military Attacks and Mockery, Ukraine Pokes the Russian Bear 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z “Thankfully, Carson demonstrated grace & class in response to this pompous, unprofessional mess,” Wright tweeted. Commanders’ Jason Wright praises season ticket sales, defends Twitter jab 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z Thankfully, Carson demonstrated grace & class in response to this pompous, unprofessional mess. Analysis | Amid off-field issues, Commanders face tall task of turning focus to football 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z It was a pompous, self-serving declaration that was also total nonsense. Accomplices to a coup: Trump's lackeys must be held to account for the Big Lie 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z But the writing never veered far from her main subject: everyday encounters with the landscape and its inhabitants, from rowdy children to pompous local officials to semi-domesticated animals. Dervla Murphy, intrepid author of travel books, dies at 90 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z The whole manuscript is written in a pompous, defensive stance, laced with aphorisms about the wonder of free markets. Review | In Hernan Diaz’s ‘Trust,’ the rich are not like you and me 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Mission, Sergey Leonidchenko, dismissed their statements, saying: “What we heard today was another portion of unsubstantiated claims and even fakes seasoned with lies, hypocrisy and pompous rhetoric.” Key players urge accountability for atrocities in Ukraine 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z But despite the pomp, it wasn't a pompous occasion. Relief as Queen makes it to the abbey for memorial 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z “He was pompous, like he was the smartest guy in the room,” Ransford recalled. Civilian Army leader led child porn ring, risked US security 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z The typical minstrel show featured clownish plantation characters such as Bones and Tambo, whose songs and jokes made fun of Mr. Interlocutor, a pompous straight man. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z I find it difficult to root for a team led by a pompous, self-righteous, egotist! Letters to Sports: March Madness continues, now without UCLA 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z This book poked fun at greedy merchants, heartsick lovers, quarrelsome scholars, and pompous priests. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a line between being confident and pompous or conceited. Joe Burrow's special gift gives him and Bengals chance in Super Bowl 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z He made you a smarter football fan with laughs and silly stories rather than pompous speech. Perspective | John Madden could have remained a coach. Aren’t we lucky he knew better? 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z But Gabe has a very different vibe: less scary, more a pompous jerk you want to punch. Locke and Key’s second season is darker but loses the magic 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z By the time he was running in 2008 for a seat on the county Board of Supervisors, there were some who had come to see him as pompous and abrasive. After 30 years in the political spotlight, Ridley-Thomas is suddenly under a cloud 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z Hence the plague of pompous garrulousness — of officials insulting the public’s intelligence with bromides no one believes. Opinion | The Biden administration’s gaseous obfuscation on Afghanistan isn’t helping 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Even seeing pompous sentences such as that one, it’s enlightening to look at the journal I kept in 1994 when I worked in the White House. Opinion | Democrats must avoid a 1994-style catastrophe 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z “The pompous title of Carlson’s speech, ‘The World According to Tucker Carlson,’ may seem laughable, but there’s nothing funny about this encounter,” wrote New York University history professor and authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Tuesday. Fox News host Tucker Carlson takes his show — and his message — to Hungary 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z "But for a pompous blowhard like you, I’m sure it’s great." New York City Mayor de Blasio mocked for tweet on 'bright' future of Big Apple amid city's crime wave 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z Lawyers interviewed about Benitez, then a federal magistrate, described him as “arrogant, pompous, condescending, impatient, short-tempered, rude, insulting, bullying, unnecessarily mean, and altogether lacking in people skills.” Opinion | Will a newly conservative Supreme Court strengthen the Second Amendment? 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z In 2004 remarks to Congress, A.B.A. officials called him “arrogant, pompous, condescending, impatient, short-tempered, rude, insulting, bullying, unnecessarily mean and altogether lacking in people skills.” A Gun Rights Win in California With Sights Set on the Supreme Court 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z Now the spaces for discourse are more democratized, immediate and toxic than a pompous dinner. Review: Romanian director Cristi Puiu's 'Malmkrog' is a dense treatise in fancy dress 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Treat pompous statements from the “Office of the Former President” as what they really are: the ravings of a depraved private citizen whose vestigial power is sustained only by the oxygen of constant attention. Opinion | Let’s leave the 45th president behind and focus on what’s ahead 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Those records are long – God, they’re so long – and they are excessive and pompous and melodramatic. Guns N' Roses: how they soundtracked my last gasp of pre-teen freedom 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z The closest Latin American corollary to Trump would be the Perons of Argentina — Trumpism is as noxious, pompous and overblown as Peronismo. Column: Trump saw himself as a strongman leader. He ended up a one-term president with a legacy of failure 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z There is a sense of “glee” that “pompous” American policymakers “who pontificate to other democracies need to look within,” wrote Smita Prakash, a high- profile journalist close to the Indian government. U.S. allies react in horror to Capitol assault, hold Trump responsible 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z While the move has mostly drawn applause, it has also been criticized as pompous, and for its disregard of the role MLB played in ostracizing Black talent. The Negro Leagues Museum, after a year of loss, counts its ‘merger’ with MLB as a win 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Giscard d’Estaing sought to build on this honeymoon by casting himself as more relaxed and less pompous than his predecessors. Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, 94, Is Dead; Struggled to Transform France 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Treasury Secretary William McAdoo called Harding’s speeches “an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.” 100 years ago: An election, a virus and a cry from disillusioned youths 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Don’t you dare talk to me about that pompous private school mouse. Ratatouille the musical? Is that even possible? 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z The story prompted Trump to call Darroch, a “stupid guy” and “pompous fool”. Man arrested over leak of Kim Darroch cables criticising Trump 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z I asked him if he worried about coming off as a pompous jerk. Journalists Aren’t the Enemy of the People. But We’re Not Your Friends. 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z I worried I would come off like a pompous clown. This Profile of Charlie Kaufman Has Changed 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Following pompous campaign hype about registration numbers, the Secret Service projected more than 100,000 people would attend the event. Trump campaign removed social distancing stickers in Tulsa as staffers tested positive for COVID-19 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z “The Society of Movers and Doers is a very pompous society indeed, whose members solemnly accept all the responsibility for their own eminence and success,” E.B. Opinion | Poker Taught Me How to Deal With the Hand of Fate 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Witness the unbearably pompous Ben Shapiro, who denounced those who would "Remove all 'offensive' content" on Twitter Wednesday night. No, the left isn't canceling "Blazing Saddles" — but the right wants you to believe that 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Probably what the 1803 Congress figured out early was how pompous those Ohio State football fans would become and left the Buckeye State off the roster of more civilized states, officially, until 1953. Even as pain deepens, huge resistance to reopening 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z All this went into the blender of his goldfish brain and came out as a bunch of pompous declarations that he's the king and we all have to do what he says. Trump says his "authority is total" — while he blames everyone else for his failures 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z “I was the flavor of the month. I ended up doing movies, TV gigs and plays. . . . My specialty seems to be playing the loud, pompous, bombastic, verging-on-hysteria guy.” David Schramm, noted stage actor who played loutish airline owner on sitcom ‘Wings,’ dies at 73 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z As for the rest of us, it's less about Brady and more about the god-awful, pompous Patriots fans who told us their sweet Tommy wouldn't dare leave New England. Inject this video of Patriots fans saying Tom Brady isn't leaving right into our veins - Golf Digest 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z “There’s an ease to the way he dresses — and an elegance, but it’s not pompous or ostentatious,” Hearst says. What a Man Wants … to Wear 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z She needed a rock star actress who could “handle the untying of Emma,” who could go from pompous to vulnerable and back again. How horror star Anya Taylor-Joy became the ideal heroine for a screwball ‘Emma’ 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z The 30-year-old singer is unrecognizable as the video for Swift's new song follows a pompous businessman wearing a suit and tie who is nothing but impolite to everyone around him. Taylor Swift's 'The Man' music video leaves fans stunned as singer transforms into businessman 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Media Research Center Deputy Research Director Geoffrey Dickens pondered on Tuesday if Todd will “muck up another debate with his pompous liberalism” in a scathing preview. Pressure on NBC News’ Chuck Todd not to ‘muck up another debate’ following previous performance 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z She said on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday that the “incredibly insulting” statements are “nothing but pompous ignorance.” South Dakota governor slams Bloomberg's 'pompous ignorance' about America's farmers 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z You might say that ultra-processed is just a pompous way to describe many of your normal, everyday pleasures. How ultra-processed food took over your shopping basket 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Although she was surrounded by pompous egos and blatant sexism, Miller found sanctuary at her desk, reading a piece of literature, ready to edit. Review: `Land of Men’ is literary junkie’s dream come true 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The dark comedy revolves around average Americans who are kidnapped from conservative America, and hunted for sport by pompous, politically correct elitists — often while being called "deplorables." Controversial film 'The Hunt' gets green light, set for March release after delay 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z A piano player later suggested his stage name, which combined “a pompous first name and a silly second name” and seemed to amuse audiences more than his initial choice of Roger Duck. Orson Bean, droll actor, comedian and raconteur, dies at 91 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z “I tried Orson Bean, putting together a pompous first name and a silly second name,” he told the Hollywood Reporter in 2014. Actor Orson Bean, local theater mainstay who rose to fame as a 1950s TV personality, dies 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z His learning made him pompous rather than wise. Commentary: John Simon, Clive James and the future of criticism in our culture 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, the creator of Thanos called US President Donald Trump a "pompous fool" after his team used the Marvel villain in a campaign video. Thanos creator complains over Trump campaign tweet 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Trump slapped back, calling Darroch a “pompous fool,” and declared him unwelcome at the White House. Trump isn’t running in Britain’s election. That hasn’t stopped him from getting in the middle. 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z It began with a misguided metaphor and ended with a pompous word jumble. ‘They Pronounced Me Safe and Then Started Commenting About the Place’ 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z “And he knows exactly how to use humor to puncture anyone being pompous or dull — in the theater of politics, people see him as one of the most enjoyable performers.” Heading into crucial British vote, a patrician prime minister takes up the populist Brexit banner 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Critics take a less benign view, seeing him as a destructive force, a pompous and partisan figure in a job that requires strict neutrality, and so nothing less than a menace to parliamentary democracy. Speaker John Bercow Bows Out, Loved and Loathed. Much Like Brexit. 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z But now the speaker’s orotund oratory, his mannered put-downs, his pompous, practiced, often hilarious jawing will be no more. British Parliament Speaker John Bercow bellows ‘Orrrrder!’ for the last time 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z For Independence Day, he replaced the traditional Soviet-style military parade of soldiers and tanks and missile launchers, which he called “pompous and expensive,” with the March of Dignity, featuring schoolteachers, doctors, social workers, and athletes. How Trump’s Emissaries Put Pressure on Ukraine’s New President 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z A few weeks back, Trump branded Romney a "pompous 'a--'" who "choked" in his own run for the White House. Romney takes shots at Trump over race, says he's abandoning Kurds in Syria 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Neely defended the ad, calling it a humorous rebuttal to two “highly pompous” federal appeals judges who he said implied in law review articles that clerks “had to be almost superhuman.” ‘Dumbest’ judge Neely seeks WVa Supreme Court seat again 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Romney’s sharp criticism has sparked a furious response from Trump, who took the extraordinary step Saturday of calling for Romney’s impeachment after labeling him “pompous” and “a fool.” What’s next in the House impeachment probes 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z The president unleashed a personal attack on Romney, calling him “pompous,” while defending his conversations with Ukraine and China as appropriate. ‘Decisive role’: Reluctant Romney reemerges as Trump’s chief GOP critic 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Ultimately this pretentious, pompous, poorly executed project has the same shortcomings as Terry’s short: obsessed with the outside of a woman, but saddled with a myopic vision of what’s going on inside. Review: James Franco's starry ‘Pretenders’ puts its pretentious nonsense right there in the title 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z What’s left is a bullying, insubordinate, pompous jock who has been accused twice of sexual misconduct and recently shown little respect for authority. Perspective | The NFL is complicit in Antonio Brown’s self-sabotage 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z The process, known as proroguing, usually passes without much notice, except for the pompous rituals and antiquarian costumes that accompany it. U.K. Parliament Closes, but Lawmakers Don’t Go Quietly 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Time and again, Andrew, who a courtier once reportedly described as having “a pompous level of self-importance”, has demonstrated an eye-watering lack of judgment. 'Boorish and self-centred': little love for Prince Andrew over Epstein links 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z She now calls the book pompous in its use of big words. A Centennial Celebration of Suffrage: Stephanie Coontz: ‘The Way We Never Were’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z As played by Mark Lewis, the father is pompous and patriarchal, yet tender-hearted and protective. Review: At Theatricum, humans survive apocalypse by 'The Skin of Our Teeth' 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Trump called Darroch, a career diplomat who is admired by senior administration and White House officials, a “pompous fool.” The quiet director: How Gina Haspel manages the CIA’s volatile relationship with Trump 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Trump called Darroch a “pompous fool” upon publication of the ambassador’s internal memos, and he said the White House would no longer work with the veteran British diplomat. ‘The British Trump’: Johnson and Trump may be chums, but U.S., U.K. policy differences remain 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z One second of Wong’s pompous Dr. Henry Wu talking about his genetic mutations and it should be clear that the dinosaur park we’re about to ride through didn’t always put the little details first. What's it like to ride the new Jurassic World ride at Universal Studios? 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Trump responded by calling Darroch "very stupid" and a "pompous fool" in a Twitter fusillade, and the White House cut off contact with the British envoy. Trump pulled out of Iran nuclear deal to spite Obama, then-British ambassador said 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Trump branded the ambassador a "pompous fool" in a Twitter fusillade. New leaks of UK ambassador memos claim Trump pulled out of Iran deal in 'diplomatic vandalism' to spite Obama 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z As is his wont, the president hit back in undiplomatic language, lambasting Darroch as a “very stupid guy” and a “pompous fool” he would no longer deal with. The week Trump said jump – and Johnson asked 'How high?' 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Those comments drew a furious response from the president who denounced him as a “very stupid guy” and a “pompous fool” and said the the White House would no longer deal with him. Darroch cables: Met accused of flouting press freedom with warning to editors 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Trump had excoriated him on Twitter, calling the ambassador “a pompous fool” and “a very stupid guy”. Kim Darroch's fall from grace casts chill over Washington ambassadors 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z The president branded the ambassador a “pompous fool,” and Darroch found himself struck off the White House guest list. Brexit, domestic drama and Trump drive UK leadership race 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z It is still shocking, but far from surprising, that an American president taking to Twitter to call the ambassador of a US ally a “pompous fool” will pass from the news cycle within days. The US-UK 'special relationship' isn't broken - it's just entering a new, more dangerous phase | Michael H Fuchs 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Trump branded Darroch a “pompous fool” and cut off the administration’s contact with him. Boris Johnson says he’s not to blame for ambassador’s ouster 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Trump calls British ambassador a ‘very stupid guy’ and a ‘pompous fool’ British ambassador to U.S. resigns after Trump criticism 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Trump’s lambasting of Darroch on Twitter - he called the ambassador “a pompous fool” and “a very stupid guy” and criticized outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May - drew condemnation from both sides of the Atlantic. Diplomats shaken for now after Britain’s US ambassador quits 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Trump’s lambasting of Darroch on Twitter — he called the ambassador “a pompous fool” and “a very stupid guy” and criticized outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May — drew condemnation from both sides of the Atlantic. Diplomats shaken for now after Britain’s US ambassador quits 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Then Trump started tweeting about Darroch, calling him “wacky” and a “pompous fool,” and the dynamic began to shift. In a divided Washington, British ambassador was a bridge 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z He later described Darroch as “wacky”, “a very stupid guy” and a “pompous fool”. Factbox: Who is Kim Darroch, the British ambassador who quit after... 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Trump fired off a further series of Tweets on Tuesday in which he described Darroch as a “wacky Ambassador”, “a very stupid guy” and “a pompous fool”. UK's May backs ambassador branded 'a pompous fool' by Trump 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z His pompous broadcaster character remains a twit throughout each new installment, but Partridge’s career is a bit different each time, depending on whether his brand of windbaggery is in fashion in the real world. The pros and cons of endless TV revivals 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Not even the most pompous administrator could claim with a straight face that no matriculating student at Harvard ever uttered a hurtful word. Opinion | Harvard has betrayed its mission to educate 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z But he’s actually closer in spirit to a classic comic foil: the grumpy, pompous butt of jokes, like Margaret Dumont in a Marx Brothers movie. Opinion | To understand how to beat Trump in 2020, Democrats should look to comedians 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z The published version concerns “New Unstable Particles” — a phrase he deemed “sufficiently pompous”. Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019) 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr Bazhenov is not generally known for giving kind reviews and he made no exception for the 2018 film Beyond the Edge calling it "incredibly funny, pompous, pretentious" in a video in May last year. Russian YouTuber sued over film review 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Critics charge that he is a pompous showman and note that he has been accused of bullying by former staffers — accusations he denies. House Speaker John Bercow on Theresa May, Brexit and why he won’t leave — yet 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z “Morally repellent”, “abysmal” and “soul-destroying”, “reads like it was written by a baboon”, “too pompous and too cliche-ridden”, and “a boring tome” full of “little more than commonplace cliches”. Jacob Rees-Mogg's Victorians has sold 734 copies – will publishers take note? 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z “We will not allow US-UK relations to be endangered by some puffed up pompous popinjay in City Hall,” he tweeted. As Theresa May steps down, pro-Trump Brexiteer Boris Johnson is favorite to succeed her 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z His pompous, random rules were widely – and deservedly – lampooned. Don't ditch the adverb, the emoji of writing | Gary Nunn 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z When distant in Rye he addressed her in letters as “Dearest Edith,” and, when present, introduced her to his London on the precise parabola of his pompous arm. Dearest Edith 1929-02-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Engel was best known for her role as Georgette on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” the character who was improbably destined to marry pompous anchorman Ted Baxter, played by Ted Knight. Georgia Engel, comic actress memorable on ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show,’ dies at 70 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Engel was best known for her role as Georgette on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," whose character was improbably destined to marry pompous anchorman Ted Baxter, played by Ted Knight. 'Mary Tyler Moore Show' star Georgia Engel dies at 70 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Engel was best known for her role as Georgette on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” whose character was improbably destined to marry pompous anchorman Ted Baxter, played by Ted Knight. ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show’ actress Georgia Engel dies at 70 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z “But it’s true that their and the international community’s discourse was very pompous. It’s a little upsetting to some when things are said, with no real immediate willingness to deliver.” Venezuela’s military, despite U.S. expectations, has not turned on Maduro 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z The “bunch of jerks” is the Carolina Hurricanes, so nicknamed by pompous Canadian TV commentator Don Cherry because they dared to celebrate home victories in fun ways. Hurricanes' 'bunch of jerks' among rising teams in Stanley Cup playoffs 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Patrick Moore, the co-founder of the environmentalist group Greenpeace, ripped into Ocasio-Cortez over the weekend as a “pompous little twit,” saying the Green New Deal plan she’s advocating is “completely crazy.” Gillibrand claims ‘there’s nothing socialist’ about the Green New Deal 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z His stentorian delivery was said to have inspired Ted Knight’s pompous newsman character on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” From ‘Divorce Court’ to the Dodgers: KTTV celebrates 70 years as Hollywood's hometown TV station 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Friedman said Bercow is “feisty, self-important, quite pompous” and “someone who rubs people up the wrong way very easily.” Order! Order! The sharp-tongued speaker of the House of Commons is changing the rules — and maybe Brexit. 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z It was especially welcome, though, at this show, which might’ve been a far more pompous affair. Review: Elton John's farewell tour is so breezy, it hardly feels like goodbye 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Stylistically, the “Observer” examined the American scene with plain phrases that echoed Twain as they skewered the pompous. Russell Baker, Times Columnist and Celebrated Humorist, Dies at 93 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z He doled out his pompous, antiquarian insults, cheerfully rebuking one member for “chuntering from a sedentary position ineloquently and for no obvious purpose.” ‘Order! Order!’: Parliament Speaker Is Brexit’s Surprise Star and Villain 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z A dispatch filed from New York by Tass, the Soviet news agency, mostly quoted Western press reports, but also said the monarch left “like a fugitive, without a pompous sendoff and without an honorary escort.” AP WAS THERE: Shah leaves Iran as 1979 revolution looms 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z A dispatch filed from New York by Tass, the Soviet news agency, mostly quoted Western press reports, but also said the monarch left “like a fugitive, without a pompous sendoff and without an honorary escort.” AP WAS THERE: Shah leaves Iran as 1979 revolution looms 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z With Laurel playing the clumsy and innocent friend of pompous Hardy, their comedy slapstick saw them become two of the biggest stars in Hollywood. Stan & Ollie: The story of Laurel and Hardy's final tour 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z If you only know the Bible vaguely, this litany of names probably sounds a bit pompous, an attempt to elevate the infant Jesus by linking him to great patriarchs and noble kings. Opinion | Staying Catholic at Christmas 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z He was, by his own admission, a pretty awful candidate—awkward, pompous, long-winded, and lacking a gift for the sound bite, which has since leavened his geeky public persona. Adam Schiff’s Plans to Obliterate Trump’s Red Line 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z There was no official comment from Moscow, but the Soviet news agency Tass, quoting “eyewitnesses,” said the monarch left “like a fugitive without a pompous send off and without an honorary escort.” AP WAS THERE: Shah leaves Iran as 1979 revolution looms 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z There was no official comment from Moscow, but the Soviet news agency Tass, quoting “eyewitnesses,” said the monarch left “like a fugitive without a pompous send off and without an honorary escort.” AP WAS THERE: Shah leaves Iran as 1979 revolution looms 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Veteran director George Ratliff and screenwriter David Levinson have made a film that looks handsome but feels pompous and empty — like the massive Italian rental villa where it’s set. Reviews: Dylan McDermott in 'The Clovehitch Killer,' John Travolta in 'Speed Kills' and more movies - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Although Richards amazingly could now stretch and bend his body into any shape as Mr. Fantastic, for example, he could be as boorishly long-winded and pompous as ever. Comic-book legend Stan Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man and Marvel heroes, dies at 95 - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z A friend recalls a lighthearted moment in the Senate chamber in the 1980s, during an especially pompous and boring oration, when someone in the back suggested moving the capital to Omaha. Opinion | Get Washington out of Washington. Put it in Omaha. 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z He gained fame almost 50 years ago playing pompous TV hosts and leering idiots as a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Review: Eric Idle on Monty Python, life’s brighter side 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z "When pompous folk pontificate on the meaning of life and the big questions I always wait until they've finished and throw that one in - 'and why are dusters yellow?'." Why are dusters often yellow? 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z “If you made a fat, pompous movie about Blaze Foley, then you’re an idiot. It had to be made with duct tape and love.” Ethan Hawke's 'Blaze' spotlights a mysterious master of the 'outlaw country' music movement 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The odds of a generation emerging from those circumstances fragile and pompous, as Sessions portrays them, are low. Our complex college students 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z “He had no entourage, wasn’t pompous, unlike traditional powers in the church and public life,” said a person active in church organizations who collaborated on causes with McCarrick. As rumors of sexual misdeeds swirled, Cardinal McCarrick became a powerful fundraiser for the Vatican 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z But a group revolt — which many Trump critics have yearned for — could also come across to viewers as pompous and self-serving. Reporters, facing hostile White House, attempt solidarity to get answers 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z “Wearing a three-piece requires more effort and expense. It can also seem a little pompous,” Doonan said. Vested interest: Southgate leads England in sartorial style 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z He was decorous and high-minded almost to a fault; he even used the pompous old phrase “your excellency” to refer to a state governor. Opinion | There was one unifying theme of Anthony Kennedy’s jurisprudence 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z They may not be pompous or grand, but there’s nothing humble about either Bolt or Federer. Roger Federer: the more we love him, the nicer he becomes | Geoff Dyer 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Joyce gently mocks Bloom too, depicting him as a pompous professor pontificating on the physiology of hanging-induced erections. Bloomsday Tribute to James Joyce, Greatest Mind-Scientist Ever 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z The pompous GOP credo was apparently a sham all along. Opinion | The pompous GOP credo was a sham all along 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z The pompous grandiosity of this tacky ceremony conveyed the essence of Trump-ism: all sound and symbolic fury, lacking substance or sense. Death, division and denial as US embassy opens in Jerusalem 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z And given how pompous and sentimental I am, those words were also pompous and sentimental: “This little magazine…” Charlie Hebdo survivor: ‘I was of the dead. But I was not dead’ | Philippe Lançon 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z Yes Mr. Schwartz was often enough arrogant, pompous, periodically insufferable, and as mentioned in the newly acclaimed novel "Asymmetry," "corny." Harassment at WNYC Was Not ‘Systemic,’ Report Says 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z In her new film, Let the Sunshine In, Juliette Binoche plays an intelligent, creative, beautiful woman who seeks sexual rapture with men who are variously pompous, self-absorbed, rebarbative and physically unprepossessing. Claire Denis: ‘I couldn’t care less about the Weinstein affair' 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z His comic inclinations were often evident, including in a 1993 episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" when, while playing poker with a pompous Isaac Newton, he scoffed, "Not the apple story again." Pop icon Stephen Hawking took on movies, music, 'The Simpsons' and the complexities of the universe 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z He is pompous, self-serving, territorial, aggressive, with an innate ability to destroy and kill. Opinion | President Trump’s North Korea Gamble 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The ad said something pompous and irritating like: “Guitarist wanted for inexperienced but important band. Influences – Smiths, Lloyd Cole, Bowie, Pet Shop Boys. No musos, no beginners. Some things are more important than ability.” Brett Anderson: ‘I had started my musical journey wanting to be the quiet one at the back’ 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z And the truth is that today the pompous grad student would be likelier to quote Zinn’s progressive indictment of America than Mr. Wood’s work. Polarization Is an Old American Story 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Modern coleopterists might not proclaim it in such pompous tones, but an in-depth study of even Britain’s impoverished beetle fauna sometimes seems a puzzle beyond patience – the hard work of many lifetimes. Why beetles are the most important organisms on the planet | Richard Jones 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The deal with the audition was, you pretty much had to do an impression of Stephen Colbert doing an impression of Stone Phillips, pompous news reporter guy. Q&A with Jason Jones, Comedy Central alum, star of "The Detour", and closet golfer - Golf Digest 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Some legislators also criticized the decision and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called the ban “pompous.” Richard Branson: Virgin Trains to sell Daily Mail again 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z He also called Khan a “puffed up pompous popinjay.” Glee in London over Trump’s scrapped visit — but also unease about U.S.-British ties 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z They’re seeing that the squeaky, pompous, bloviating, self-serving wheel is getting every ounce of grease it desires. ESPN, others shouldn’t give LaVar Ball, America’s most infamous sports dad, a platform 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Has he proven to be an even more pompous, loathsome and self-promoting person in retirement? Ryan Divish: Edgar Martinez was the first name I checked on my first Baseball Hall of Fame ballot 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s the same old patronizing, pompous way of dealing with us like we’re less than him. Wes Studi has been shattering Native American stereotypes for years. It's time for Hollywood to catch up. – Los Angeles Times 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z “And he immediately gathered leaders of Muslim nations in Istanbul and delivered pompous speeches.” Turkey also plans to open an embassy in Jerusalem — East Jerusalem, in support of Palestinians 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Lumumba called Trump to task for “his pompous disregard for all of those factors that will not enable us to stand with him today.” Trump draws protests while honoring civil rights heroes 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba also stayed away from Saturday’s ceremonies, citing Trump’s “pompous disregard” for the values embodied by the civil rights movement. The Latest: Trump pays tribute to civil rights ‘heroes’ 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z “It’s being a little pompous when you say, ‘Oh, well we’ve got the lowest rates in the community,’” he said. As coal falters, large polluter could close its doors 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z “It’s being a little pompous when you say, ‘Oh, well we’ve got the lowest rates in the community,'” he said. As coal falters, large polluter could close its doors 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z “It’s being a little pompous when you say, ‘Oh, well we’ve got the lowest rates in the community,'” he said. As coal falters, large polluter could close its doors 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z But why the pompous “no place” phrasing in the first place? #MeToo has reached the art world. Don’t think it’s running out of steam | Peter Bradshaw 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z They said they can’t share a stage with Trump in Mississippi because of his “pompous disregard” for the values embodied by the civil rights movement. The Latest: Trump pays tribute to civil rights ‘heroes’ 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z Wasn’t this a sexist statement, a pompous word choice and needlessly offensive? Opinion | It’s sexist to unnecessarily describe Kevin Brady as bald 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Another ex-peace corps volunteer called Brown’s speech “really pompous and sort of shocking”. Scott Brown: more complaints surface over behaviour of US ambassador to New Zealand 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Cases in point from the last week, reminding us there are many fronts in our fight to save this nation from the bullies of the pompous left: Harvey Weinstein saga but one example of the left’s culture war 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z There’s even a Plain English Campaign that does its nut, year-round and vocationally, about examples of baffling officialese, pompous lawyer-speak and soul-shrivelling business jargon. Don’t press send … The new rules for good writing in the 21st century 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z And if all of this wasn’t enough, after his pompous speech, Trump was taken to see the devastation in one of the wealthiest municipalities of the whole island: Guaynabo. Trump came to Puerto Rico like an emperor: with pomp and little sympathy | Susanne Ramirez de Arellano 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Appearing in public before scrums of television reporters, Ri delivered screeds against the U.S. government in pompous, formal Korean, but Samore describes Ri’s English as “excellent, superb, idiomatic.” The secret behind Ri Yong Ho, North Korea's fire-breathing spokesman 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z That’s why, he says, it’s important for organizations to oust a single pompous jerk quickly. A field guide to jerks at work 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z And can it ever be made clear to an artificial intelligence that everything Mr Collins says reveals him to be a pompous twerp? We need robots to have morals. Could Shakespeare and Austen help? | John Mullan 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z In fact, Harrison was such a stiff, pompous fellow that even officials of his own party dubbed him a “refrigerator” and a “human iceberg.” Analysis | No matter what he does, history says Trump will never be popular 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Translated into English by Christopher Hampton, the play features an amusingly pompous performance from Abraham in a role that plays on his status as a distinguished veteran. Homeland star F Murray Abraham uncowed by terror attacks - BBC News 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z He had grumpy opinions about foreigners but didn’t spare the people with him on board: the pompous, the addled, the hypocrites. Opinion | What happens when famous novelists ‘confront the Occupation’ in the West Bank 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Describe him in three words: Rigid, pompous, removed. Election blind dates: Gina Miller and Godfrey Bloom - BBC News 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Yet even when they convincingly project compassion for those less fortunate, they still frequently end up looking like pompous, out-of-touch elites. An appalling chorus of Trumpcare apologetics exposes the farce of American democracy 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z The pompous flourish with which he promotes them, like nearly everything this president does, is an effort to create the perception of action when the reality is anything but. A sham presidency’s legacy: What will be the defining image of the Trump administration? 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Lack of strict rules and pompous ceremonies, strong social media presence and female bonding are a big part of the attraction for the young women. Hobby-horsing craze in Finland manifestation of girl power 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z “I think it’s pompous to think man can stop an ice age. That’s ridiculous. “That said, there are issues with sea level rise and how to defend against that. The Republicans who care about climate change: 'They are done with the denial' 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z She added that the revolt against the lurid stripes was the work of “pompous idiots” who resented her wealth and who wrongly feared that the audaciously painted house would bring down property prices. In London, Class Warfare of a Different Stripe 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z As the younger Einstein, Flynn is less charismatic and convincing, but he does get across the pompous egotism that comes with being the smartest guy in the Western Hemisphere. Illuminating new series 'Genius' examines Albert Einstein's beautiful mind and extracurricular love life 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Over the years, O’Reilly also inspired copycats, serving as the model for the pompous TV pundit that Stephen Colbert played, tongue-in-cheek, for years on Comedy Central before Colbert decamped for CBS. He helped build Fox News into a juggernaut. What's next for Bill O'Reilly? 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z “There was something about the act of criticism itself — its assertiveness, its ability to subvert the sometimes pompous, often expensive, object under review — that appealed to me.” Richard Schickel, encyclopedic film scholar and Time magazine critic, dies at 84 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z He gained a reputation among the staff for being pompous and driving down morale. Port mess exposes a lack of oversight 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z |
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