Sentences with phrase «from pompous»

But regardless of the critical distain from pompous film critics (guilty), there are still those who trek to their local cinema each year for their dose of the increasingly incoherent story of the Jigsaw killer (guilty as charged).

But co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo and primary screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely adroitly use Thanos» hunt to yoke together stories and characters that range from the pompous gods of the Thor chronicles to the practical jokers of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.

Your review is bombast from a pompous ass whose opinions mean nothing.

But I quickly woke up from my pompous foodie bubble.

Not exact matches

In a recent fireside chat, Dennis Chookaszian, the long - time CEO of CNA Insurance and more recently a substantial angel and early - stage investor and advisor to numerous companies, departed from the usual plethora of pompous pieties that seem to pass for content at technology panel discussions of late.

We see this monster in Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale, where a theocratic patriarchy forbids women to read books, and we see him in the movie Kinsey, in which the future sexologist's pompous, teetotaling, Bible - wielding father (played by the massive - browed John Lithgow) cows his wife at the dinner table and disowns his son for daring to attend a different college from the one where dad teaches.

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

Pedistals or pedastals or pedestals are ever upon pompous humanistic allegations ever bewailing to be knocked and mocked by the many who enmass upon their ownliness adornments to be positioned in such a mannerism so not to be fallen from one's perch!

Wake up from your Mickey Mouse delusions you pompous pinhead.

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.

a hugely pompous thing for wenger to say re jan window; given all the good buys he's benefited from in the jan window.

From my understanding the bartender struggled with the shaker and he drunkenly said he could show him how to do it in his tough man way (He was quite pompous).

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.

During his 39 years in Parliament he has been suspended from the House of Commons for accusing the government of conducting a crooked deal to sell off coal mines (1995), calling John Gummer a «little squirt of a Minister» (1992), accusing George Osborne of snorting coke (2005), calling David Owen a «pompous sod» (1984), accusing the Deputy Speaker of bias towards the Conservatives (2006) and calling Jim Prior, then Secretary of State for Employment, the «Minister of Unemployment» (1980).

2 pm Maria Borelius on Comment: «The European Commission: endless speeches with verbose legalities, people babbling, talking to no one in particular, autocratic rants from various pompous eurocrats — all translated by some 10 - 15 interpreters.

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.

The rift allegedly began when Saffran publicly switched his support mid-primary from John Catsimatidis, who was supported by the Queens GOP, to Joe Lhota and thus aligning himself with whom many insiders call one of the biggest pompous and delusional politicos in Queens county, none other than power - hungry boy wonder Eric Ulrich.

You see, I know that Monckton is a pompous ass and frequently seems to be antagonistic purely for the sake of a charged debate, but I would say that he too has suffered from a similar amount of vitriol to that experienced by Kevin Trenberth and often for no good reason.

They include DC Comics» Superman and Wyldstyle's pompous boyfriend, Batman (Will Arnett), as well as wizards from Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, Abraham Lincoln, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and NBA star Shaquille O'Neal (who provides his own voice).

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

From its extravagant costumes to its pompous score, «The Golden Age» is packed with distractions.

Having risen from a lowly orphan to a respected seaman, Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth) finds himself as First Mate on the Essex, a whaling ship captained by the rather pompous George Pollard (Benjamin Walker).

Meanwhile, Edward Norton seems to be having a blast playing Keaton's pompous costar in the play that he's putting on - and is that a refreshingly down - to - Earth turn from Zach Galifianakis we see?

One could be forgiven, however, for confusing him for the older, squatter version of a different character: Bernard Berkman, Jeff Daniels» breathlessly pompous professor from The Squid And The Whale, who Baumbach not so loosely (or secretly) modeled on his own father.

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,

A dread - filled electronic score, neon, zombie - like performances and violent scenes of amputation — all fail to distract from the emptiness and sheer silliness of Nicolas Winding Refn's Bangkok - set, bloody and hilariously pompous revenge yarn «Only God Forgives».

It's a pompous, irritating movie and the critics who praised it should be given a pink slip from there bosses.

He gets help from a ragtag band of strangers including a bad - ass Goth chick who goes by the name Wyldstyle (an adorable Elizabeth Banks); Batman (Will Arnett, doing a Batman version of his pompous «Arrested Development» character, Gob); a makeshift pirate captain called Metal Beard (Nick Offerman); and the unflappably happy Unikitty (Alison Brie) which is — you guessed it — half unicorn and half kitty.

Here is the plot synopsis from my early review: Dennis Quaid plays Lawrence Wetherhold, a miserable and pompous college professor who suffers a head trauma while trying to jump the fence at a car impound lot.

To do so, the pompous Phoenix Buchanan — played to the hilt by Hugh Grant, fresh from having his own career re-energised by Florence Foster Jenkins — needs a hidden fortune that can only be located with the help of a dusty old pop - up book from Mr Gruber's antique shop.

An injokey dig at Warner Bros. and Disney, numerous lame verbal gags involving Niko's Greek surname, Harry Shearer's pompous news anchor (who is not too far from one of his Simpsons roles, newsman Kent Brockman), and some comic stoicism by Jean Reno (playing — what else?

(In French and Polish with subtitles) The Giant Mechanical Man (PG - 13 for sexuality and brief profanity) Quirky romantic comedy about a soft - spoken zookeeper (Jenna Fischer) who falls for a struggling street performer (Chris Messina) in spite of pressure from her domineering sister (Malin Akerman) to date a pompous, self - help guru (Topher Grace).

On the Western Front, the Battle of Passchendaele has begun, and among the many fatalities from Joseph's regiment is the trusted commanding officer, who is replaced by a young major whose pompous incompetence virtually guarantees that many good soldiers will die needlessly.

I feared that showing my words to a professional editor would reveal me to be the naked, pompous emperor from the classic Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale «The Emperor's New Clothes.»

I tend to oscillate back & forth from a press - worthy «No comment», to a pompous «Well, stock ideas are my only currency...», to an excitable «I was just reading up on X, I might buy it!»

This employee can both hold his own with any local experts or start from scratch with beginners — all without being pompous or over-selling.

In the span of a single day I managed to out - science the manic Plague Knight in a potion - peppered frenzy on the big screen, usurp the pompous King Knight from the comforts of my own porcelain throne and brush aside the icy breeze of Polar Knight while on a snow capped commute to work.

This manner of speech is so polite, though, that it sounds extremely odd coming from such a villainous character, who otherwise talks in the very stereotypically pompous manner of so many JRPG bad guys.

The unconscious aura of titillation that arises from a visual representation of an aspiring woman artist in the mid-19th century, Emily Mary Osborne's heartfelt painting, Nameless and Friendless, 1857, a canvas representing a poor but lovely and respectable young girl at a London art dealer, nervously awaiting the verdict of the pompous proprietor about the worth of her canvases while two ogling «art lovers» look on, is really not too different in its underlying assumptions from an overtly salacious work like Bompard's Debut of the Model.

One can hope for something definitive from the generation before, like the Nashers, at the risk of its pale, pompous shadow.

When, in his pompous, post-September 11th introduction to the exhibition, chief curator Lawrence Rinder writes that «what is American art, what is an American artist, and what is a museum of American art have taken on a keen and tragic importance,» he is clearly aware of this conundrum and of the need to move away from a centralized, institutional conception of American and American art.

In this particular case, I hope that readers share my disdain for Nurse's untrue and pompous reaction to Montford's criticism and for his surly response to the approach from the GWPF.

This video from the always pompous Sheldon Whitehouse will give you a sense of what White endured.

From here, mostly, the rest seems to the lay person like smoke and mirrors and pompous huffing.)

This denouncement from an elderly pompous snuff - taking stripy trousered QC when I told him I was studying at the University of Hull was enough to put me off a career at the Bar.

Children can detect phony or pompous from a long distance.

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.

This denouncement from an elderly, pompous, snuff - taking stripy - trousered QC when I told him I was studying at the University of Hull was enough to put me off a career at the Bar.

LSUC needs to create some ground rules for the ABS discussion once it hits Convocation, in order to keep the discussion constructive and, at the very least, to keep the profession from looking like pompous, self - aggrandizing protectionists.

As for my comment that rules are needed to keep the profession from «from looking like pompous, self - aggrandizing protectionists,» — it attacks no one.