Sentences with phrase «pomposity in»

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.

It may be different in your country but the natural reaction to such pomposity in the UK is deeply unfavourable.

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:

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And God really couldn't stand another 2000 years of pomposity propagated in his name.»

To understand the fine flavor of his barbed cynicism, we must attend even to his introduction in which, with assumed pomposity, he mocks the very words of prophetic announcements:

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.

But he is swiftly losing everything, pride, pomposity and arrogance have set in.

Its hard not to like Danny; he lacks the pomposity and entitlement that Walcott so often displays in spite of having little or no impact after nine (Yes!

We mock and grotesquely caricature politicians, in order to break their pomposity.

There is hope — I hope — that Corbyn's election finally signals a desire in this country to turn our backs on the sharp - suited politics of swagger, greed, pomposity, deceit and thraldom to money, hierarchy and privilege.

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.

This incarnation of Fanny may not have been what Austen had in mind, but she surely would have approved, for the injection of attitude and smarts makes Mansfield Park a much more wicked and irresistible social satire, with Fanny frequently needling the pomposity of her rich relations.

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.

This thread is duplicated in Aydin's interaction with the women in his life, the sister who attempts to puncture his pomposity and the wife who desperately tries to carve out a little world for herself without having him criticize or condescend to her.

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.

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.»

Like a younger, more sprightly Burgess Meredith, Giamatti gives an energetic and unflagging display in Braddock's corner and provides some much - needed humour to prick the pomposity surrounding the production.

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.»

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.

His amiable presence knocks away any of the pomposity sometimes found in smart boutique hotels.

Come relive the romance of maharajas of a bygone era in a train more opulent than their wildest imagination and pomposity.

He went to your schools, so yours must have far better than ours, I never see the arrogance and pomposity of self in Aussie works.

A few of the talking heads in Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict offer their observations with an air of insufferable pomposity (guiltiest party: art critic John Richardson), but they are outnumbered by writers, critics, family, and friends who speak of Guggenheim with affection and authority.

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);).

I expected you to be all over my post like an overloaded underpowered leaky tramp steamer mistakenly heading for the lighthouse in a thick pea soup fog, not realizing that to get to the lighthouse you must first miss the harbour inlet and run aground and wreck on the rocks of pomposity.