Sentences with phrase «pompous about»

She wants you to know that she takes her achievement seriously without being pompous about it.

I don't want to sound pompous about it, but I'm sure Bruce Nauman saw some shows when he was a kid, and I would love to know that maybe, in 40 years, the Bruce Nauman of tomorrow came to one of our shows.

To be fair, though, Tony Stark is a grown - ass man, and he's incredibly pompous about being a «billionaire genius playboy philanthropist,» as he put it.

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What would Jesus think about a person who has lied about being Roman Catholic, lied about being married, lied about their ethnicity, lied about having a major illness, lied about their education, and has the unmitigated gall to act in a pompous, overbearing manner that belies their supposed piety?

There are many sermons that you can listen to and learn Jesus» wisdom... instead of being a pompous vain jerk, believing you know something about life, to find out you know nothing but your vain imagination.

It is an astounding detail when you think about it: The God of all creation, the One who knows every corner of the cosmos and fathoms every mystery, the One who could answer every theological riddle and who, I suspect, chuckles at our volumes of guesses, our centuries of pompous philosophical tomes debating His nature, when present in the person of Jesus Christ, told stories.

truth be trolled's ramblings about his sky fairy is starting to sound like that pompous idiot lionly.

When we don't get what we toss around pompous criticisms about how the church should change.

I was surprised and confronted by my friends reaction when we did talk about how we felt, she said, (without thinking or sounding pompous..»

OK, so now you're the one who is the pompous person who assumes way too much about people.

«Why, you've been pompous and presumptuous about as far as you can go.

You could hardly say you've been «proud,» Why, you've been pompous and presumptuous about as far as you can go.

Pompous in the extreme but isn't that what all religions are about.

Chef Peter is proud, but definitely not pompous, about Biaggi's accomplishments.

He even wrote an article about how they were irrelevant and should stop acting so pompous.

That pompous Mo also said last season that he will win the PL with 2 more signings (Costa, Fabregas) and look whats happening exactly what hes said he did nt have to build chelsea he just got 2nd last season talking about little horses and big horses, but he was right Chelsea wher2 players away once he gets them he will win the PL he knows wenger is building an Enterprise rather than just a stop gap team Wenger is cementing Arsenals future for the next 10 years so he does nt have to reitre and watch His legacy Rot in hell.

This Benjamin guy is a pompous ass who only thinks that he has any idea of what he's talking about.

Atkinson gives a humbly moving performance in the way she quietly shuttles about the house, her facial expressions, oftentimes, being the rudder of reality in the face of pompous art talk or Turner's melancholy moods.

Hux spouts off pompous, pretentious threats about how many different ways he is going to destroy the rebellion, and Poe just trolls him while the rebels gear up for their traditional - but - never - old trick of being quick and cunning instead of enormous and cumbersome.

His counterparts are equally uninteresting, as the French captain is simply a pompous caricature and Professor Ivarsson's everyman resorts to nonchalant narration, monotonously spouting out his wisdom about ancient cultures without the tiniest bit of enthusiasm.

In Real Life, Brooks» pompous filmmaker (as in his Saturday Night Live shorts, covered below, Brooks here ostensibly plays himself) sets out to make a movie about the typical American family in a naked bid to win fame and adulation.

(In French and Polish with subtitles) The Giant Mechanical Man (PG - 13 for sexuality and brief profanity) Quirky romantic comedy about a soft - spoken zookeeper (Jenna Fischer) who falls for a struggling street performer (Chris Messina) in spite of pressure from her domineering sister (Malin Akerman) to date a pompous, self - help guru (Topher Grace).

Oh I talked about this with friends, and they pointed out that the author making discussion questions might sound pompous and egoistic (I didn't think of that.)

So I can discard the pompous and self - important (Franzen's Freedom comes to mind immediately) and the pedestrian (Nicholas Sparks) without spending any money.What I will say about most traditionally published books is that the author or editor at least ran the manuscript through a rudimentary spell / grammar checker before publishing it.

In short, it's a term that feels too self - regarding and pompous to be used for mere games; to be something people should care about.

The unconscious aura of titillation that arises from a visual representation of an aspiring woman artist in the mid-19th century, Emily Mary Osborne's heartfelt painting, Nameless and Friendless, 1857, a canvas representing a poor but lovely and respectable young girl at a London art dealer, nervously awaiting the verdict of the pompous proprietor about the worth of her canvases while two ogling «art lovers» look on, is really not too different in its underlying assumptions from an overtly salacious work like Bompard's Debut of the Model.

No pompous top - down message yak yak yak about how great they are.

Can you hear the laughter at your expense or the resentful conversations as they drive away about there pompous over educated brother in law?

I hope that «global warming» becomes the punch line of jokes around the world for decades to come, when the joke is about pompous, officious, self - declared geniuses.

Because, in your pompous, arrogant opinion about yourself, only you have anything of value to say and only you and other down in the weeds computer jocks like you have influence.

Maybe you're nervous talking to people you don't know or you're worried about sounding pompous (or worse, you actually do sound pompous).

London, UK, 4th February 2018 It's not all about you — barristers taught how not to be pompous The Telegraph (featured)

To come up with something to say about yourself can prove hard without sounding pompous.

When I read a bio in which someone talks about themselves in the third person, it turns me off because it sounds pompous, arrogant and impersonal.

Always be proud and explicit about your accomplishments, but try not to be too showy or pompous; arrogance is an overrated quality among sale reps, and most employers do not want to deal with bigheads.

Being chic is not about being pompous, it's about being moderate but fashionable.