Sentences with phrase «pompous names»

Perhaps too pompous a name for a bathhouse, yet a plausible allusion to its size and service.

The declaration, down to its pompous name, was meant to be a political statement — and it helped turn lab - bound climate scientists into political actors on a global stage.

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I know now, why God and Jesus stay invisible; with this kind of emissary running around acting like a pompous uncaring FOOL «In «His» Name», would YOU appear to mankind?!? I sure as hell wouldn't.

It is God's declaration of love to God's new Israel; it is God's naming to supreme accountability; it is God's surprise, visited upon the world of the pompous and powerful.

Without the continuous testimony of the Spirit to what we are called to; and without the input of all the others who name that Name, especially the excluded, our claim to catholicity is premature at best, if not just pompname that Name, especially the excluded, our claim to catholicity is premature at best, if not just pompName, especially the excluded, our claim to catholicity is premature at best, if not just pompous.

Adults call each other by their first names unless they're pompous.

And then, of course, there's Cleese himself as the superbly - pompous defence barrister Archie Leach (which, as an interesting aside, is the real name of one Cary Grant).

He gets help from a ragtag band of strangers including a bad - ass Goth chick who goes by the name Wyldstyle (an adorable Elizabeth Banks); Batman (Will Arnett, doing a Batman version of his pompous «Arrested Development» character, Gob); a makeshift pirate captain called Metal Beard (Nick Offerman); and the unflappably happy Unikitty (Alison Brie) which is — you guessed it — half unicorn and half kitty.

His apt name is Nick Bottom (Kevin Kline), a pompous ham of an actor who is transformed into a half - man / half - donkey monstrosity by a playful Puck.

The very much alive masked Myers continues slicing up vics, as the pompous profiteering shrink who treated Myers, the hammy Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell), swears he's dead and the celebrity author comes out with another bestselling trashy book on the maniac that reveals that Laurie, living under an assumed name, is Myer's damaged - goods younger sister.

It begs the question; why do lawyers use their middle initials resulting in pompous sounding names trailed by the antiquated, Esq..