Examples of pompous in a Sentence

So as the pictures of flooded shanties flicker by on cable news, uptight neatnik Midwestern Lutherans and sensitive northeastern urban sophisticates and pompous media grandees on both coasts express shock at the unexpected squalor of the poverty and bafflement over the slovenly corruption of the civic institutions. — Rob Long, National Review, 26 Sept. 2005 President Warren Harding was an orator, but his bloviations were an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea. — Harold Evans, New York Times Book Review, 11 Nov. 2001 She never allowed her spirit to become, as, say, Henry Adams did, curdled by long exposure to Washington's tawdry and pompous aspects. — George F. Will, Newsweek, 24 May 1999 She found it difficult to talk about her achievements without sounding pompous. the pompous waiter served us in the manner of a person doing some poor soul a great favor

Recent Examples on the Web The book is gassy and pompous and just fraudulent and dumb as hell. — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 15 July 2022 The result is miraculously neither pompous nor cloying. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2022 Hemsworth begins the film as an overbearing, pompous Thor. — Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 7 July 2022 That sounded a little bit pompous but there was a bit of competition. — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 2 June 2022 The whole manuscript is written in a pompous, defensive stance, laced with aphorisms about the wonder of free markets. — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 17 May 2022 Instead, The Gilded Age offers Nathan Lane using a Colonel Sanders accent as the pompous McAllister. — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 25 Jan. 2022 Each of them delivers a pompous speech diagnosing Pinocchio’s ailment, and each diagnosis differs from the others. — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022 Constance is a pompous British aristocrat from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. — Gustaf Lundberg Toresson, Forbes, 22 May 2022 See More

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