Sentences with phrase «more pompous»

First off, «It is not simply a statement of sanctimony to suggest that members of the legal profession should endeavor to elevate the practice of law above the transient vulgarities of contemporary society,» is one of the more pompous aggrandizements of lawyering I've read in awhile.

It's more pompous and elitist crap meant to make them feel more important than they are and to attempt to make us believe that we can not live without their so - called Lovemarks.

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

Sudeikis still thinks with his dick (he's hired an office full of unqualified hotties to leer at, which makes him their horrible boss) and is more a pompous ass than ever before, and Day, well he's still the frantic wimp who can't be forgiven for having not slept with his overly - sexualized, sex - kitten of a boss played by Jennifer Aniston («Wanderlust»).

Yes, there's a pompousness... They've all grown a bit more pompous and, you know, [it's] the garage band that then gets a multi-platinum album and have egos to go along with that.

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

and of course u r more pompous than ur father

Could you be any more pompous and sanctimonious?

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.

It sort of puts pompous religious declarations into perspective when you realize that there is more proof for Sasquatch than there is for god.

He did more than invade sacred precincts and puncture high - flying balloons and kick pompous asses.

could they be any more presumptuous / pompous?

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.

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.

It's a pompous phrase but country above party has rarely felt more appropriate because the stakes are so high.

But Shippers himself appeared to be more annoyed with the FT's victory, although he later deleted a tweet branding it a «pompous Remoaner comic» and asking: «Do any of the judges actually read newspapers?»

I looked each video (very well made) and also realize they use broader simpler but still concise enough terminology, that»S really great to increase reach and be more «approachable» because sometimes regular everyday people on the street don't know all or have heard the mumbo jumbo jargon in biogerontology (they will think you are a pompous alien nerd - stuck up who thinks he knows more because he was like a lab rat in his lab books studying aging; on top of that they will more Resentful towards you for Daring to Question their Life beliefs on Life and Death by your» 2 - cents worth knowledge (couldn't give a f...)»

The film is by turns comic and profound, hysterical and pompous, fully complex enough to deserve more than a simple yea or nay.

The Princess Bride toyed with the idea of the prince being a completely pompous slimeball, and while Rob Reiner's film has issues, Prince Humperdinck has more of a motivation than Prince Charming.

The Extra-Terrestrial, the definitive boy - and - his - dog movie, as I can't help but feel that E.T.'s departure will leave a bigger, more cavernous hole than the one Elliot started with — a troublesome notion that the pompous uplift of John Williams's score does everything in its power to drown out.

Also adding quirky laughs to the proceedings are more peripheral characters, such as rich, pompous attorney Tom Baxter (Robert Wagner) and Kelly's slutty mom Sandra (Theresa Russell).

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.

Selections are more diverse than one might expect, though at the risk of sounding like a typically pompous old - and - out - of - it critic, the foreign - language selections tend to be better than the American independents.

With the exception of Cusack's character, the film's protagonists are more obnoxious than a Poison concert and less likable than a pompous ski - resort local.

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

What you're probably remembering more are the Avengers movies, where Hemsworth's pompous Thor comes off as pretty funny when teamed with the likes of Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Scarlett Johansson.

While the film ultimately belonged to Woolley's pompous character, Davis more than holds her own with one snappy line after another.

Like 300, the cinematography is pompous and showy (I seem to remember the comic had a lot more pink), but this can easily be forgiven.

It is a rather pompous premise, but one that offers a strong impetus for the suite of mechanics the game presents, which include kingdom building and army tactics components, on top of a more traditional third - person action adventure storyline.

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.

It is, apparently, a «pompous, empty feature film» that is «more like a high - class piece of perverse nostalgia porn'than a documentary.

Their mass is somewhere between pompous and imposing, even when he calls the tallest, at more than fifteen feet, a ghost.

Your approach is much more useful than saying «Nya nya nya, your just a Tribalist / Ideologist / Hack / Irresponsible contrarian / Pompous Ass who thinks eminence in one field entitles you to make ex cathedra remarks on other subjects»

Your quips with childish references to «inspector cluso» are born out of a pompous mentality that no one else could have gone down a road similar to the one you have travelled down, or have done more than yourself.