Sentences with phrase «in pompous»

It begs the question; why do lawyers use their middle initials resulting in pompous sounding names trailed by the antiquated, Esq..

And then you thought no further, considered nothing inobvious, left your talents buried, in a pompous backslapping squandering of opportunities.

I can not respond to the details of your argument above since the snotty nature of it makes me want to put you in your pompous place, very angrily.

Because, in your pompous, arrogant opinion about yourself, only you have anything of value to say and only you and other down in the weeds computer jocks like you have influence.

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.

Given Sakurai's talk of no more clone characters, some may have been concerned Falco would skip Wii U / 3DS, but he's here in all his pompous glory.

Aiding in this is the game's excellent soundtrack, trading in pompous bombasity for muted atmosphere, and punctuating the gloom your characters go through.

(imagine said in a pompous French accent with a wry smile)

Their sin was in their pompous pretensions of adult self - sufficiency.

What would Jesus think about a person who has lied about being Roman Catholic, lied about being married, lied about their ethnicity, lied about having a major illness, lied about their education, and has the unmitigated gall to act in a pompous, overbearing manner that belies their supposed piety?

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

Matt Walsh is a minority voice that is practicing his free speech rights, but his being fired REPEATEDLY in the past 4 years shows that freedom of speech does include the right to call him a pompous ass.

Sorry for sounding like such a pompous ass in my previous post.

THEIR riches and THEIR dictating public policy in the US is surely commendable... but if American Catholics and American cardinals dare say anything then surely they are hypocritic rich pompous turds...

Not to those with the pompous titles, but to a wanderer in the wilderness.

It is an astounding detail when you think about it: The God of all creation, the One who knows every corner of the cosmos and fathoms every mystery, the One who could answer every theological riddle and who, I suspect, chuckles at our volumes of guesses, our centuries of pompous philosophical tomes debating His nature, when present in the person of Jesus Christ, told stories.

With a great deal of dry humor, Hugo Assmann wrote recently that he is astounded that no one pointed out to him in the 1970s how incredibly pompous the phrase «Pueblo oprimido, señor de la historia» (The oppressed people, lord of history») sounded.

Just would like to point out that it seems pompous that 5000 years of people believed in spirits existing...

In the manuscript, Mr. Zuss is an» old and pompous actor with a resonant voice.

Pompous arrogant pseudo intellectual, believe what you will in your little bubble of fantasy.

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.

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!

The righteousness and holiness of God imposed upon the Israelite an exacting standard of action and thought and, in turn, revealed the depravity of pagan religion, however pompous or ancient.

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.

«After the High Renaissance 17th century and the 18th - Counter-Reformation, art in most of Europe drifted towards pompous political and religious propaganda for a time.

What pompous a ** theologian wrote that first paragraph (in the comment) that you obviously quoted?

No, 1 word, you are a pompous fool who wants to use iron age mythology to deny people civil rights here in the 21st century

i play the character in three general characterization; one moment I am a pompous ass hat, the next a gallant rebel fighting the ultimate evil, the back to the anguished bigot.

Do you like / support him or do you think hes a pompous prlck who relishes in his own (false) greatness?

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).

Pompous in the extreme but isn't that what all religions are about.

A year later, in his rather pompous, rhetorical way he wrote that he had been quite overcome at this time: obstupui, obmutui, succensui — stupefied, silenced, excited, in turns.

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.

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

With all the pressure on him, coming out to Sinead, the change in opponent, shiploads of his countrymen flocking out just to see him, and he still puts on that kind of showing, how can anyone criticize him without looking like a bias pompous is beyond me.

I'd like to punch that pompous fat idiot in the mouth but it would probobly make him slurp more on the air.

That pompous Mo also said last season that he will win the PL with 2 more signings (Costa, Fabregas) and look whats happening exactly what hes said he did nt have to build chelsea he just got 2nd last season talking about little horses and big horses, but he was right Chelsea wher2 players away once he gets them he will win the PL he knows wenger is building an Enterprise rather than just a stop gap team Wenger is cementing Arsenals future for the next 10 years so he does nt have to reitre and watch His legacy Rot in hell.

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).

Some of the more pompous voices in the media will tell you they are performing a vital democratic function.

«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.

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.

He is the embodiment of Fleet Street bullying, using his newspaper to peddle his Little - England, curtain - twitching Alan Partridgesque view of the world, which manages to combine sanctimonious, pompous moralising and prurient, voyeuristic, judgmental obsession, like a Victorian father masturbating secretly in his bedroom.

We will not allow US - UK relations to be endangered by some puffed up pompous popinjay in City Hall.»

Mick Cash, general secretary of transport union the RMT, subsequently said: «Driving a taxi in London is hard enough without having some pumped - up, pompous former Tory minister telling you how to do your job.»