Sentences with phrase «pomposity when»

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.»

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But I also came across him when I had to ask the librarian if I could borrow The Wittenburg Door, a magazine that deflates religious pomposity wherever it is found.

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.

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:

«Her feigned pomposity about Italian - Americans falls flat when you know she's yet another surrogate for Andrew Cuomo,» said Paladino campaign manager Michael Caputo.

[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».