Sentences with phrase «pomposity on»

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

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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.

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:

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.

A Western short on dialogue and long on pomposity, is little more than an extended chase scene down a snow - filled mountaintop to a desert floor.

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.

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

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

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).

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.

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

WebHubTelescope: Pomposity is favored by the AGW deniers, because they have nothing else to lean on.

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 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.