Sentences with phrase «becomes pompous»

It's exactly what you'd expect from slob / artiste Schnabel, who discusses his paintings with his shirt largely unbuttoned and eventually becomes pompous storyteller regarding his world travels,

Today, many are wary that the study of ancient and contemporary rhetoric will cause their preaching to become pompous, rigid and loaded with false gimmickry.

Today, many are wary that the study of ancient and contemporary rhetoric will cause their preaching to become pompous, rigid and loaded with...

«Are US senators pompous gits before they are elected, or do they become pompous gits afterwards» I can tell you that they normally enter he Senate as poor public servants and then join the ranks of the 1 % wealthiest citizens soon after.

Not exact matches

To many observers, he appears to be the same old Gingrich «a pompous policy wonk who will eventually implode, either before or after he becomes the Republican nominee.

I became a big Jenson Button fan when he trounced overpaid BAR teammate Jacques Villeneuve in the races.When he went to previously unlovable McLaren and Ron Dennis «disappeared» simultaneously I gave the team a chance and it was really good... no pompous pronouncements from Ron and Button showed well against Lewis Hamilton.

Ministers can be divided into those who «go native» and are at the beck and call of their civil servants or who become very pompous and superior.

A few years ago, when he was making film after film, he became dangerously overexposed: A little of his pompous demeanor goes a long way.

There's barely a laugh to be found in this story of a law student (Scott Eastwood) who signs up for acting classes taught by a pompous blowhard (Malcolm McDowell) as a clumsy attempt to cozy up to one of the students (Laura Ashley Samuels) after becoming smitten during a chance encounter.

They just become more pompous, arrogant, and critical of fledgling writers.

An embodiment of savvy self - promotion, Damien Hirst has become the world's richest living artist, and with that, a scapegoat for the pompous market and inflated celebrity status representing all that is wrong with contemporary art today.

«I don't like art with a capital A,» König told me, «when it becomes kind of pompous.»

I hope that «global warming» becomes the punch line of jokes around the world for decades to come, when the joke is about pompous, officious, self - declared geniuses.

A problem of writing for TreeHugger too much is that one becomes a bit of a pompous know - it - all, so when Harry ordered shrimp shao mai I had to point out the issues with it.