Sentences with phrase «pomposity at»

I'm going to say that most, if not all, of this is because of Sorkin, who has produced this marvel of a screenplay that moves at approximately the speed of light; dialogue flies out of Jesse Eisenberg's mouth with extreme alacrity, wit, and pomposity at all times there is a camera on him.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Michael Gambon wonderfully captures the pomposity of a once - great director who still thrives on what little power can be grasped at Beechum House.

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.

[1] Louisa Buck said at her father's remembrance service that he had a «lifelong loathing of pomposity, wicked irreverence and dogged loyalty, even when it was against his own interests».

Chris Hitchens was really at heart one us he was a humanist always forward looking optomistic loved the triump of the human spirit (not a miserbalist control freaking climate alarmist) But mainly he loved all things Ameican (ecept the Clintons) He was this famous scruffy agnostic rather right centred carrassmatic interlectual a great writer and thinker (unlike his his great sibling interlectual rival his brother Peter without the scruffy or the agnostic) Peter and Chris were exactly like that other great brotherly partnership Niles and Frazer Underneath all that interlectual pomposity there was some mad vibe going on between them Imagine them smashing each other with sherry glasses over a discussion about Europe or something

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.