Sentences with phrase «about pomposity»

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There may well be some larger truth, but to claim that they knew about this 2000 years ago or before is pomposity at its worse.

This is the most delicious description of our particular form of idiocy I have seen, and could only be matched by some irreverent American with Priestley's talent writing about the deadly pomposity and «Well done, sir» gentility of a major cricket match.

«Her feigned pomposity about Italian - Americans falls flat when you know she's yet another surrogate for Andrew Cuomo,» said Paladino campaign manager Michael Caputo.

«The absence of pomposity was characteristic of this guy,» said another designer, Paul Rand, about Matter.

Chris Hitchens was really at heart one us he was a humanist always forward looking optomistic loved the triump of the human spirit (not a miserbalist control freaking climate alarmist) But mainly he loved all things Ameican (ecept the Clintons) He was this famous scruffy agnostic rather right centred carrassmatic interlectual a great writer and thinker (unlike his his great sibling interlectual rival his brother Peter without the scruffy or the agnostic) Peter and Chris were exactly like that other great brotherly partnership Niles and Frazer Underneath all that interlectual pomposity there was some mad vibe going on between them Imagine them smashing each other with sherry glasses over a discussion about Europe or something

«Readers sick of typical glossy - magazine self - help patter about reigniting romance, or the droning pomposity of most author - experts, will be pleasantly surprised...»