Sentences with word «pomposity»

«Mark Carney was absolutely charming, and had none of the typical pomposity of Brits,» Urquhart Stewart told The Daily Telegraph.

There was neither sentimentality nor purple pomposity in the commemorative words of Cardinal Leo Suenens when he eulogized the late pope before the second session of the Vatican Council on October 27, 1963:

Viewers are instead offered up fat - bottom obsessions, a ocean of pretentiousness, and pomposity on the far side of nauseating.

There may well be some larger truth, but to claim that they knew about this 2000 years ago or before is pomposity at its worse.

«The firm's «personality» syncs well with our company because the firm's lawyers are practical and down - to - earth without pomposity, smart, and willing to roll up their sleeves.»

But I also came across him when I had to ask the librarian if I could borrow The Wittenburg Door, a magazine that deflates religious pomposity wherever it is found.

This accusation was sometimes even levelled by other journalists, usually the sort of commentator who adopts pomposity as a cover for his own inability ever to break significant stories.

I'm not about pomposity.

The Emperor's Same Old New Clothes: Every day Mike Francesa breaks fresh ground for public pomposity and dishonesty.

By adapting its heroine's perspective, the series displays a willingness to accept that sex can be a ridiculous proposition — and that concession rids this installment of the suffocating pomposity found in its predecessors.

Hoffman's academic pomposity provides an adequate satirical wellspring as well, while Eiffel's morbid fixations find the right sense of puckish mischief in Thompson's hands.

If this ridiculous display of pomposity takes lots of money from Catholic coffers and spreads it around to the fish»n chips vendors and other innovative Brits, then I guess I'm for it...

Two of her clerical characters, Mr. Collins (of Pride and Prejudice) and Mr. Elton (of Emma), are insensitive morons, and she has no toleration for the kind of hypocritical pomposity that they represent.

I strove to apply my recent experience in a Berlin evangelical academy and my appreciation of the theology of Paul Lehmann, Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer to the decline of Christendom, the challenge of global urbanization, the racial crisis, the adolescent pomposity of Playboy and the debasement of women in the annual Miss America pageant.

And also be - cause pride, contentiousness, and pomposity supposed something additional was necessary, something beyond the hearing and the heeding of God's call.

This is the most delicious description of our particular form of idiocy I have seen, and could only be matched by some irreverent American with Priestley's talent writing about the deadly pomposity and «Well done, sir» gentility of a major cricket match.

This is all a cover for setting free our worst moral pomposity.

All useless theoretical pomposity to be pooh - poohed.

12:25 - Keith Vaz (Labour, undiluted pomposity) mentions plebgate.

12:30 - Sir Bob Russell (Lib Dem, pomposity increasing daily) starts by saying ethnic cleansing is evil.

Observers who have followed Dr. Bawumia's pomposity over the program are questioning how the program has changed from being a sham to being strategic to economic management under the NPP.

«Her feigned pomposity about Italian - Americans falls flat when you know she's yet another surrogate for Andrew Cuomo,» said Paladino campaign manager Michael Caputo.

Last week Gov. Andrew Cuomo, with the usual annoying self - righteous pomposity, announced another of his «sweeping» ethics reforms.

Undercut by an air of self - congratulatory pomposity that the film is way too insubstantial to support.

They're trying to use Grammer's patented pomposity to play a kind of Jack Welch or Ted Turner who hits the skids, but here it isn't endearing, it's annoying and almost unwatchable.

Don't Believe The Truth strips away the layered excess of albums like 1997's Be Here Now to revisit the streamlined pomposity of the group's earliest discs.

The trial itself, and the thin - lipped pomposity and cynicism of the Nazis» defending counsel, well played by Johannes Krisch, are controlled and convincing.

Still, it's this sort of practiced pomposity — the well - tailored suits, the jewelry, the ability to knock out locutions like «the never - ending drip feed of eroticism» with the ease of someone effortlessly nailing self - pitched dingers — that many of Cave's admirers respond to.

While the film is seemingly accessible as a portrait of an artist who seems particularly attuned to his own creative process, and particularly adept at describing this attunement (Cave has given several long - form lectures on the peculiar metaphysics of songcraft), it's unlikely that many who aren't already whole - hog Bad Seeds fans would be able to stomach much of Cave's self - styled pomposity.

The renders of the crew in their wedding outfits look crisp and clean, showing off Mario's dapper eagerness, Bowser's regal pomposity and Peach's astonished indecision.

Dujardin neatly balances pomposity with humility and Bejo dazzles as Peppy.

Sex and violence were used to goose up formula scripts, art was for losers and the default tone was either life - lesson gloop (starring Meg Ryan) or stubbled pomposity (Kevin Costner).

To be sure, he only uses his powers to give Marge's poisonous pomposity real - world consequences; her gaseous self - importance inflates her like a noisome blimp balloon and sends her bobbing off through the suburban skies.

Although he largely remains calm in the face of considerable provocation, James is someone who can't abide bullshit and in this most postmodern of films that includes traditional filmic pomposity, those moments which seem extraordinary - grand speeches and indulgent anecdotes which he slices through with castrating barbs and withering looks.

Viggo Mortensen's Ben Cash and his ragged offspring; through their faux - philosophical existentialism, their ludicrous names and their garish pomposity, somehow end up resembling actual people.

If you have Harold Ramis, Jane Adams, Garry Marshall, Chevy Chase, Ben Stiller and Mike White himself in supporting roles, and Kline (unbilled) finding just the right balance between charming nobility and weary pomposity, you have a movie that can be undone only in the making.

He wavers on the edge between pomposity and self - defeat, trying to put on a good show for his crew but secretly fearful that he's a lame pirate leader (despite having both his original legs).

The loneliness of later life and the depression it brings with it, as explored recently in Bill Condon's Mr Holmes, is touched upon but there is an air of pomposity when Victoria confides to Abdul, «We are all prisoners.»

The rust of pomposity threatens to creep over the new one — the flippant peacekeeper Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) faces death from faulty wiring, and has daddy issues.

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Hall's script mildly pokes fun at courtly pomposity, while eventually treating the relationship between Victoria and Karim as a balanced friendship — when surely the truth was trickier.