Sentences with phrase «pompous old»

The unprofessional manipulative sales hacks amongst you will revile my words as simply being the meanderings of a pompous old know - it - all spouting this drivel for his own entertainment.

We could all picture in our minds those pompous old goats swinging fists at each other.

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.

Kick that pompous old gas - bag Patrick Cormack upstairs, he's love a Peerage, and parachute Dan into that seat.

«Newsflash you pompous old git chips, those ignorant fans paid for your range rover and your wife's facelift (not that it did much good, silk purse and sow's ears and all that...) so you should show some respect to the people who pay over the odds so you can quaff champers at breakfast».

A pompous old fool if ever there was one.

Not exact matches

In the manuscript, Mr. Zuss is an» old and pompous actor with a resonant voice.

To many observers, he appears to be the same old Gingrich «a pompous policy wonk who will eventually implode, either before or after he becomes the Republican nominee.

As the Golden Age of Hollywood faded, glorious old - school films like Ben - Hur began to give way to the grittier, wised - up work of those like Billy Wilder, creating a tension between impish youth and pompous elders.

Hey, if the sight of two beautiful, virile young women who are, like all beautiful, virile young women everywhere, are clearly gagging for it with absolutely anyone, including sad old gits, gets you upset then fuck off, cos we here at AICN are not elitist, pompous dickwads like you must be.

One could be forgiven, however, for confusing him for the older, squatter version of a different character: Bernard Berkman, Jeff Daniels» breathlessly pompous professor from The Squid And The Whale, who Baumbach not so loosely (or secretly) modeled on his own father.

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.

To do so, the pompous Phoenix Buchanan — played to the hilt by Hugh Grant, fresh from having his own career re-energised by Florence Foster Jenkins — needs a hidden fortune that can only be located with the help of a dusty old pop - up book from Mr Gruber's antique shop.

Jake's older brother is slick, pompous public relations exec Ben (Don Johnson), who is dutifully served by staff underling Peggy Blaine (Mary - Louise Parker).

Jason Segel (as the titular slacker) and Ed Helms (as his estranged older brother Pat) play an archetypal comedic duo in the Abbott and Costello mode, with Jeff as the overly trusting, childlike buffoon and Pat as the constantly scheming, absurdly pompous bully.

Although old Polonius in Hamlet usually comes over as a pompous idiot, his advice is beyond improvement: «To thine own self be true».

Though theatrical, the pompous grandeur often associated with velvet - curtained, old - fashioned theaters is counterbalanced by the paintings» presentation.

(My children often point out to me when I identify issues like this I express them in a manner as confusing as the message in a fortune cookie, which I could accept until the characterization was recently refined to say this would only be the case if the fortune cookies were baked large enough to house the pompous verbosity of an old lawyer.

I hate how some of the older lawyers we've used in the past dislike email, are slow, and give off a pompous attitude.