Sentences with phrase «pomposity as»

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Jeez is no more responsible for the way Christians disrespect others as most atheists are for the pomposity of Richard Dawkins and his encouragement of his followers to rely on insults.

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.

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.

A period drama refreshingly free of pomposity and starch, Mike Leigh's biopic stars Timothy Spall as J.M Turner, the great 19th century English landscape painter, and examines his later years.

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

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.»

Hoffman is often marvelously insufferable as Harold, whose stubbornness and artistic pomposity make him a spiritual cousin to Bernard Berkman, the novelist played by Jeff Daniels in Baumbach's «The Squid and the Whale.»

However, that doesn't make this a bad film, as there's quite a bit to like amid the hammy acting and pomposity of the situations.

But Twain was wrong: it does not appear that Mr. Polis was taught any manners and it may be too late to reach him, as he is too far gone in pomposity and rudeness.

Much as «Splosion Man warped the platforming genre, The Gunstringer distorts the western; at once a love letter to its traditions as it is a critique of its pomposity.

As she went through the folders, grabbing images of the paintings she liked the most, it became clear that her most pressing peeve was the pomposity of artists and the art world.

As for the possibility of migration to better climes, you assuredly would be made most welcome in Australia because over here we give credit where its due and we are, as a nation, less than impressed with pomposity and the trading in influence that seems to prevail in selected areas of the NH (which shall remain nameless so as not to offend anyone's sensitivities);As for the possibility of migration to better climes, you assuredly would be made most welcome in Australia because over here we give credit where its due and we are, as a nation, less than impressed with pomposity and the trading in influence that seems to prevail in selected areas of the NH (which shall remain nameless so as not to offend anyone's sensitivities);as a nation, less than impressed with pomposity and the trading in influence that seems to prevail in selected areas of the NH (which shall remain nameless so as not to offend anyone's sensitivities);as not to offend anyone's sensitivities);).

It is becoming common for such letters to show up on the recipients» web sites, partly to expose what the recipients perceive as bullying, and partly to laugh at the pomposity of some of the writers.

I even appreciate Winkler's accounts of a couple of projects he's been involved in and see the same blustering and pomposity in many litigation matters as described by Winkler.