as in loftiness
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All brittleness and bile in the hands of Diego Luna, Valentín’s quiet righteousness rubs up against his cellmate’s grandiosity in all the wrong ways — at first.—
Blythe Marks,
Them.,
17 Oct. 2025 -
Ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her mother Kris Jenner are depicted trying to reach Ye through his fog of grandiosity, to no avail.—
Derek Robertson,
The Washington Examiner,
10 Oct. 2025
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After all, as Everett reminds us with comic pomposity: The journey matters.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
17 July 2025
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Right now, his focus is on doing eight shows a week, while injecting a Big Easy swing to the Major General’s pomposity.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
30 Apr. 2025
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Hip-hop, jazz, and gospel didn’t merely rub elbows in his songs.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
15 Oct. 2025
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The chords and arrangement carried a mixture of church/jazz/funk.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
15 Oct. 2025
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Coleman found no pretentiousness in Trafford, and he was not perturbed by the drop in facilities compared to the Etihad Campus.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
9 Aug. 2025
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This is Spielberg at his most pure and sensational, an undiluted cinematic experience that lacks any of his sentimental claptrap and steers clear of his tendency for multiple endings.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
20 June 2025
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Third, despite Trump’s claptrap, plenty of fresh delta water is being pumped south to fill fire hydrants and the tanks of firefighting aircraft.—
George Skelton,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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“Floweriness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floweriness. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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