Sentences with phrase «pomposity of»

«Readers sick of typical glossy - magazine self - help patter about reigniting romance, or the droning pomposity of most author - experts, will be pleasantly surprised...»

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.

Rather than simple erasure, Gordon's violation has created a counter-monument which liberates the bard from the pomposity of national treasure.

Peter Saul, also New York - based, makes gleefully inappropriate, deliberately insulting, genitalia - chocked paintings, drawings and prints that skewer the pieties and pomposity of pols, prigs and the art - world elite.

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.

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.

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.

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

Perhaps he was too busy honing his eloquence and fearful countenance to kick against the pomposity of pre-Revolutionary France.

It focuses on a small story, a rise to success, and it eschews the excess, glitz, and pomposity of the latter Rocky sequels.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

Of Government bureaucracy, pomposity and feet dragging.

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:

Cardinal Gerhard Mueller has a measured, thoughtful way of speaking, fluent English, soft fizzy accent, a friendly approach and a complete lack of any pomposity.

Thank God for them all, of course, and for that strange interval, which was most of my life, when I read out of loneliness, and when bad company was much better than no company You can love a bad book for its haplessness or pomposity or gall, if you have that starveling appetite for things human, which I devoutly hope you never will have.

Love, ambition, fear, guilt, nobility, pomposity, patriotism, absurdity, sheer wickedness — you name it, Will grasped something of its essence.

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:

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.

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!

He said some of the threat messages he received came from social media users who abused him based on «ethnocentric 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.

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.

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

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.

The pace never lets up, and every time there's the slight chance of things getting a bit (ahem) po - faced (sorry), any hint of pomposity is deflated with a sight gag or some sharp dialogue.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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

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.

Farrell is still the embodiment of pomposity, Carell of Ralph Wiggum - ness, Rudd of smarm, Koechner of repressing bravado.

With killer comic instincts, Wright punctures any hint of pomposity with a flip remark or a flipped middle finger.

Many accused him of pomposity, but I didn't see it.

, but Renault's not new to this sort of pomposity.

The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposity and vanity of people who should know better.

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.

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.

A degree of pomposity almost spoils his new paintings.

«The absence of pomposity was characteristic of this guy,» said another designer, Paul Rand, about Matter.

[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».

Her style involves semi-schizophrenic personality shifts — prom queen, mean girl, victim, critic — along with bouts of pomposity, self - deprecation, sarcasm, self - conscious attempts to win affirmation, and antagonism of her audience (the crowd's cued claps never quite met her standards of enthusiasm.)