Sentences with phrase «pompous language»

Not exact matches

Selections are more diverse than one might expect, though at the risk of sounding like a typically pompous old - and - out - of - it critic, the foreign - language selections tend to be better than the American independents.

And when I say intelligent, I don't mean ones that are pompous or talk down to the audience, but rather they really make great use of the English language that even non-Brits will easily understand and laugh out loud in their seats.

It's a story that never goes out of style: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll's chronicle of an inquisitive girl lost in a parallel world of talking animals and pompous royals, is a tale unlike any other — one that celebrates the complexities of language, the singular genius of children and the absurdity that lurks just beneath the surface of reality.