| 单词 | pompousness |
| 例句 | I don’t want the rigidness of it all and the pompousness. Dev Patel Was Not a Dickens Fan. (Don’t Tell Armando Iannucci.) 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Grant plays Sinclair with tremendous brio, capturing his pompousness and authority as with some bon mots about good writers "stealing" work. Richard E. Grant on sex, power and playing an entitled man similar to the "Teflon-coated" Trump 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Chief Judge Preska takes the opportunity to slam Socrates in the flesh, equating his pompousness in the courtroom with the impiety charge levied against him. Greeks Bearing Rifts: Socrates Goes Back on Trial 2011-05-17T11:20:00Z With their monster trucks and unearned pompousness, no hometown boy stood a chance of enticing us. My “Ghost World” years: Confessions of a teenage AOL catfisher 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Each man embodies a version of Hollywood's self-aggrandizing pompousness. Fifteen years later "Tropic Thunder" is a flawed comedy that we're still trying to agree on 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z “So if you take away all the pompousness, what are you left with?” asked the soft-spoken government attorney Inga Bejer Engh. Euro crisis? vultures 2012-05-17T15:25:00Z “I love the name because it’s fake pompousness,” he said. ‘Grand Poobah of Powder’: This Seattle man’s snow reports have powered winter sports for 25 years 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z When I did finally approach Brooks’ column it was with the usual sense of dread; I was particularly not in the mood for his well-established self-satisfaction, his pompousness, his condescension wrapped in smugness. The cult of white liberal race-deniers: David Brooks’ letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates shows race denying at its worst 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z The problem is that Donald Trump’s awareness is almost entirely anchored on one thing—his pompousness. Amidst Donald Trump's Riches, Some Very Poor Branding 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z It’s a pompousness that only someone who believes they have proven, scientifically, the nonexistence of God can possess. Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens: New Atheists flirt with Islamophobia 2013-03-30T19:00:00Z She was, for instance, as much gratified to be the wife of a baronet as her husband was to be a baronet itself; that intractable feature of hers turned all the simple pleasure into pompousness. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z His license plates told a tale of pompousness, reading KIMCOM, HACKER, STONED, GUILTY, MAFIA, GOD and POLICE. Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom, by the Numbers 2012-01-21T22:35:28Z Their absurdities, pompousness, banalities, hypocricies took grotesque outline in his words. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z When Wilkinson reappeared, limp and tired, with his pompousness exuded in perspiration, he sought his master with a message, which he delivered ere the flood of interrogation could burst from Grobstock's lips. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Nowhere has he been better described than in "Margaret," in the character of Master Elliman, whose mingled pompousness, verbiage, and pedantry, admirably represent the class to which he belonged. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z Granted he was pompous; with a little more pompousness her mother would have come more creditably out of that old affair. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z Course he had a tremendous influence with the selectmen and the like of that, owin' to his soldier record and his pompousness and the amount of taxes he paid. The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z Tennyson rebelled against the pompousness, and said, in his blunt way, that Jane Austen knew her business better, a courageous thing to say in Victorian circles fifty years ago. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z All its pompousness had fled—it looked old and helpless and humble. Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z "Brother," said the Akasava chief, not without a touch of pompousness, "I have covered my bow with the skin of a monkey." Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z I despise pompousness, pedantry, and unconscious condescension in a man.... Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-09T03:00:44.777Z Whether or not, in spite of his pompousness, he was grateful to me I didn't know; but I guessed that he was not. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z Dr. Burton was the most conspicuous one of the group, from his very pompousness. The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, 2011-01-17T03:00:42.913Z The nurses," rejoined the doctor with a pompousness which somehow irritated Luke, "will have my authorization to forbid any one having access to Lord Radclyffe for the present. The Heart of a Woman With official pompousness the big, olive-green truck rolled out from the Base. Human Error He had cast off his pompousness and vanity, and was known to favor war to the bitter end. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 Honest imbeciles, makers of phrases, rhetors, heavy and narrow-minded, office-hunters, office expectants, politicians, contractors, admirers of pompousness and of would-be radicalism, all who turn round and round, and see not beyond their noses, etc. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 Pomposity and pompousness are the affectation of pomp. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Mr. Warren looked more sympathetic than ever, and that was just as trying to bear as the pompousness of Doctor Newington. The Heart of a Woman At the Gibsons' there was neither pompousness nor insincerity nor pretension of any kind, and therefore no real vulgarity. The Martian Percy looked down at her; all his imposingness, all his air of importance, and his occasional tinge of pompousness, had entirely vanished. Bird of Paradise His pompousness faded in something under fifteen seconds, for it was in about that length of time that he caught sight of a plain gray envelope then in the process of emerging from Johnson’s pocket. The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man There was no room for pedantry, for the ostentatious display of learning, for pompousness, for affectation. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 Gibbon is sometimes called pompous, but place him by the side of Alison and what one may have previously called pompousness one now calls dignity. Historical Essays He had heavy and bilious eyes, and a certain pompousness of manner distinguished him. Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country A great landowner was remarkable for the pompousness of his manner. Chatterbox, 1906 His knighthood, granted in 1918, and an inevitable increase in waist measurement emphasised his pompousness without diminishing his fussiness. Lady Bountiful We're glad," said Mr. M'Dougall, swelling with vulgar pompousness, "to see that you recognize the rights of property and the claims of vested interests. St. Cuthbert's True, occasionally he lapsed into his favourite pompousness and autocracy, but this made the work more characteristic of the man. John Forster He was a man of considerable accomplishment; but, as Boswell observed, "with a pompousness or formal plenitude in his conversation," or as Dr. Johnson expressively remarked, "with too much elaboration in his talk." Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. "A great many considerations influence me," he said with a touch of pompousness. Quisanté That archaic phrase, which Milly used with a malicious pompousness when she wished to "put something hard up" to her lord, was of course an ironical misnomer in this modern household. One Woman's Life The externality, the pompousness of intention, the theatrical postures, was part of the romantic constitution. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers "God bless you, madam," he began with a grotesque echo of the ancient pompousness. Destiny Alexyéi Sergyéitch had a shrill, nasal voice, and was incessantly smiling, amiably, but somewhat patronisingly, not without a certain self-satisfied pompousness. A Reckless Character And Other Stories Callan's revelations had been bearable, because of the farcical pompousness of his manner. The Inheritors In such an atmosphere it is possible to be serious without pompousness and flippant without inanity. The Magician There was a certain pompousness in this array of remarks, but it lay, as the Pope saw very well, not in the speaker but in the scribe. Lord of the World He has sanity lucidity, pointedness, sometimes epigrammatic piquancy, of expression, dignity without pompousness or grandiloquence, feeling without hysteria. Haydn It was delivered in 1844, and was slightly tinged with the pompousness which manifested itself in his late years, and especially on religious topics. Daniel Webster She had met men who ran to polysyllables and pompousness, but she had never known the polysyllables to accompany so simple a manner. Starr, of the Desert Susie was convulsed with laughter at his pompousness, and he turned to her with the utmost gravity. The Magician But there was in general nothing Oriental about him, no assumption of barbaric pompousness, no extravagance of bearing. Overland Rafael blushed, feeling he had made a false step in volunteering his name with the pompousness he would have used toward some bumpkin of the region. The Torrent Entre Naranjos In verse, he has a pomp which, excellent in itself, became pompousness in his imitators. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers None of the deacon's pompousness was abated as he entered the house and the room. The Cash Boy There are other times when the attitude, severely impartial and studiously aloof, accuses itself of a little pompousness. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue The father - always elegantly dressed, with his old-fashioned pompousness and melancholy eyes - and the son - nearly as tall and bearing a striking resemblance to him. The Bride of Dreams In verse, he had a pomp which, excellent in itself, became pompousness in his imitators. Among My Books First Series He was sorry for his cousin, in spite of the pompousness and arrogance with which Sir Timothy unconsciously did his best to alienate even those whom he most desired to attract. Peter's Mother He had a pompousness or formal plenitude in his conversation, which I did not dislike. Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) "He reposes entire confidence in me," said Beaumaroy, with a touch of assumed pompousness. The Secret of the Tower "Even a degree of pompousness," cried I, "in such a court as this, seems a propriety." The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 He had a pompousness or formal plenitude in his conversation which I did not dislike. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. He says of himself with something of pompousness, "I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came." English Literature for Boys and Girls Young men, with the fire of ambition burning in them and a proper scorn for mere superficial ceremony, had to sweat their tempers and bow down beneath the yoke of senile pompousness. Rung Ho! He is a hidalgo of blue blood in pride, pompousness and poverty. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 His customary arrogance and pompousness of manner were laid aside. Australia Felix It consisted in one child feigning sickness and another playing the doctor, and the pompousness and gravity of the latter, and the distress and weakness of the former, were most successfully imitated. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan |
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