Sentences with phrase «little pompous»

Employers could mistake you for being uninterested and a little pompous if you fold your arms in the interviewing room.

Katz's perverse insistence on making small portraits and landscapes in sweet and tangy colors was partly a reaction to this rhetoric, which he found, he admitted, «a little pompous.»

«It sounds a little pompous, no?

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

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.

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.

All this to say, while I embrace conservatism I find individuals like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh to be little more than pompous ar s e s.

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.

And he's a little too pompous to listen to talk on and on by himself for an hour, hour an a half.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Gaghan's sporadically ambitious directorial choices are intriguing (if occasionally a little too showy), while his dialogue tends to lean more towards the pompous than anything else.

Personally, we'd like to thank the trio of Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker, and Mark Weingarten for doing all they could within their power to drown out the Nolan brothers» pompous dialogue in favor of Hans Zimmer's IMAX - sized music cues, but even we'd draw the line at giving them the actual trophy, and there's little doubt that the Academy's sizeable ear trumpet - hoisting constituency will too.

There is little doubt that when the screen adaptation of The Extra Man was being written, Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman had Kevin Kline in mind for the pompous Harrison.

When you read that something you have poured your heart and soul into is «stultifyingly vapid» and «excruciatingly pompous,» you're allowed to be a little defensive.

This sort of comic vehicle isn't designed to improve the world or change the way Hollywood does business; it's simply meant to hand you a few laughs and throw in a little heart by way of its pompous, dislikable main character's redemption.

Not surprisingly, it doesn't take Erik long to break the rules, given that he has little respect for the group of pompous posers.

Sound is most typified by the pompous speech of the hero — funny at first, but ultimately proving a little repetitive.

, which might sound a little bit pompous and silly, but adds quite a bit of character.

Voltaire — as an example humanist — was a little inclined to studied witticisms — think a pompous Oscar Wilde.

iPhone X Edition sounds a little too elaborated, even pompous, for Apple's highly anticipated first OLED handset.