Sentences with phrase «as pompous»

This doesn't help our case — in fact, it makes us come across as pompous and arrogant.

But it's the legendary Charles Laughton who fills the screen as the pompous barrister who is supposed to be retired after recovering from an illness but can't resist taking a puzzling murder case.

Sorry, «Joe» (smile), as Pompous said, you and Dr. Murry Salby and Dr. Soon and An - thony and....

Seriously, though, I haven't been on this forum long, and I'm happy to admit I'm educationally challenged, I'm also a beginner in the climate change debate, but man, do you come across as a pompous ass or what.

She said: «The Government collection is for everyone and regardless of who is in power at any time the collection can be enjoyed by everybody for future generations... My donation is not solely to David Cameron and 10 Downing Street, as pompous as it sounds it is actually to the nation.»

The Schnabel show, as pompous as it is, turns out to be the most deferential of these.

They can turn out as pompous and hostile to art as the New Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, or MoMA in 2004.

Joe, truly, you're coming across as a pompous blowhard.

Although old Polonius in Hamlet usually comes over as a pompous idiot, his advice is beyond improvement: «To thine own self be true».

Penn is hilarious as the pompous Emmet, but even better is the «sweet» component of the film's title: Samantha Morton, who plays Emmet's long - suffering laundress girlfriend Hattie — who happens to be mute.

The very much alive masked Myers continues slicing up vics, as the pompous profiteering shrink who treated Myers, the hammy Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell), swears he's dead and the celebrity author comes out with another bestselling trashy book on the maniac that reveals that Laurie, living under an assumed name, is Myer's damaged - goods younger sister.

If this looks, on the face of it, like a well - worn Agatha Christie mystery, that's because it's supposed to (Stephen Fry even pops up as a pompous, pipe - smoking copper).

What's more is that they carry themselves perfectly as pompous intellectuals, their every gesture conveying disdain or mean - spirited self - satisfaction.

Giacometti's dismissal of Pablo Picasso as a pompous ass is both funny and apt.

Additional guest voice cast includes celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay and Alton Brown as cooking competition participant Bolton Gramercy and host Yum Laboughé, respectively; Daniel Henney («Criminal Minds») and James Cromwell («The Young Pope») reprise their feature film roles as Hiro's brother Tadashi and Professor Callaghan, respectively; Susan Sullivan («Castle») as Fred's mother; John Michael Higgins («Pitch Perfect») as Fred's sidekick robot Mini-Max; Diedrich Bader («American Housewife») as pompous local TV reporter Bluff Dunder; Sean Giambrone («The Goldbergs») as Fred's geeky archrival Richardson Mole; Naoko Mori («Mamma Mia!

Lily James imbues Elizabeth with the same wit and charm that she brought to «Cinderella,» and Sam Riley has fun as an especially snarling version of Darcy, but it's Matt Smith who steals the show (and most of the laughs) as the pompous and absurd Mr. Collins.

Of the leads, Jonathan Brugh as the pompous Deacon is the weak link.

Not to say Owen Wilson was bad, but Vaughn simply shines in his role as a pompous, arrogant douchebag.

Apatow regular Paul Rudd stars as pompous, uptight Alvin alongside Into the Wild's Emile Hirsch as Lance, the young brother of his girlfriend.

At least the casting, outside of Weller's role and Michael McKean (doing very well as a pompous psychiatrist), disregards DCU's recent penchant for star power in favour of practiced voice actors.

The latest from Terrence Mallick continues to solidify his rep as a pompous twit and / or brilliant filmmaker.

Positive doesn't have to come across as pompous.

I see you as pompous and arrogant, too.

If you feel that you've overreached in your efforts to be professional and come across as pompous or rude, try to lighten the mood with a little self - deprecating humor.

Not exact matches

Bill, you've been repeatedly discredited as a liar, a coward, a hypocrite, and a pompous ass.

I know now, why God and Jesus stay invisible; with this kind of emissary running around acting like a pompous uncaring FOOL «In «His» Name», would YOU appear to mankind?!? I sure as hell wouldn't.

His listeners are pompous, arrogant fvc.ktards who aren't as good at it as he is; they need to get tips from somebody.

The pompous distaste of sharing a god with another religion, and the shock of seeing «one of their own» wearing the «other's» religious garb as well.

Still though skytag, I see your blatant pompous lingering ways as an illness of one's mentally deficient growth rings.

Dismissing their perspective as self - evidently absurd might give you onanistic glee, but it is not going to do anything to convince the vast majority of people in the world that your words are anything more than a pompous sermon to your own little choir.

-- or provides pompous and unhelpful footnotes (a reference to spectacles compels Rufus to explain that reading glasses «as we now know them, with attachments passing over the ears, were an English invention of the last century»).

Arrogant and pompous as ever Saint Lof A.

Don't confuse his pompous and pious speech patterns and mournful looks as some sort of religious epiphany.

But if you do it in such a way as to purposefully offend people just to garner attention, that doesn't make you intelligent, that makes you an insufferable, pompous a $ $.

The Lord's prayer is unique in its great simplicity and brevity, in its lack of pompous invocations and expressions of homage to God, such as are characteristic of the liturgical and literary prayers of the Jews.

«Why, you've been pompous and presumptuous about as far as you can go.

You could hardly say you've been «proud,» Why, you've been pompous and presumptuous about as far as you can go.

For sheer fatuity, on this score, it would be difficult to surpass Martin Kettle's pompous and platitudinous reflections in the Guardian, appearing two days after the earthquake: certainly, he argues, the arbitrariness of the destruction visited upon so many and such diverse victims must pose an insoluble conundrum for «creationists» everywhere» although he wonders, in concluding, whether his contemporaries are «too cowed» even to ask «if the God can exist that can do such things» (as if a public avowal of unbelief required any great reserves of fortitude in modern Britain).

does anyone see that the pompous arrogance of, say, dawkins, towards christians is THE SAME problem as christian's pompous arrogance towards him?

After the achievement of independence when the Episcopal Church of its own volition got an Episcopate, and in spite of the pompous pretensions and sober protestations of such High - churchmen as Connecticut's Samuel Seabury, the new American church in order to attain organization on a national scale had to make the lay voice in its councils an essential part of its being.

It has a reputation as a Grandma drink, and it's what writers use to make a character seem stuff or pompous - just look at Frasier, and Mr. Banks from Mary Poppins.

Once they are persuaded by the evidence of their eyes, they will not follow those disturbing their ears with tell - tales and pompous self - projection as Ghana's saviours.

«The government had been made aware of the boastful and pompous claims of Senator Suleiman Othman Hunkuyi, that he will change the leadership of Kaduna State in 2019 by installing himself as governor.

Describing Amidu as a «pompous» personality with an «over-bloated ego» Valerie did not understand why Amidu disregarded her directive stopping all appointees from granting press interviews after a presidential press conference held by the then John Mills.

In one breathe, this means Akufo - Addo is so self satisfied and unpleasantly pompous such that, he does not need people to join in his campaign, how much less those he has described as moles?

It even sounds a little pompous, as if MPs think they are deserving of special privileges.

Still, says Koch, «he was not at all aloof or arrogant or pompous, as so many other famous people are.»

I should mention that I did give birth to two beautiful, healthy, chubby little babies and I don't want to come off as a bragging pompous mama but my girls have always done exceptionally well in school and I definetly think that my prenatal diet played a factor in that.

But if they are sharing their truth — as I believe this pompous man is — they will reveal as much as you need to know.

As the Golden Age of Hollywood faded, glorious old - school films like Ben - Hur began to give way to the grittier, wised - up work of those like Billy Wilder, creating a tension between impish youth and pompous elders.