Sentences with phrase «too pompous»

If the cover letter sounds too pompous (or not enough), you can correct it immediately.

However, do not sound too pompous and overambitious.

However, do not sound too pompous and over ambitious.

Remember not to sound too pompous.

The final important step is to pitch yourself well without sounding too pompous.

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

Grant, in his characteristically floppy collar and sporting a pair of retro frames just for the occasion, said he was there: «for the country, if that doesn't sound too pompous.»

And he's a little too pompous to listen to talk on and on by himself for an hour, hour an a half.

Not exact matches

I see you as pompous and arrogant, too.

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

It's an Icarus drama — a pompous, glittering era that knew not its own mortality and danced too close to the sun.

For sheer fatuity, on this score, it would be difficult to surpass Martin Kettle's pompous and platitudinous reflections in the Guardian, appearing two days after the earthquake: certainly, he argues, the arbitrariness of the destruction visited upon so many and such diverse victims must pose an insoluble conundrum for «creationists» everywhere» although he wonders, in concluding, whether his contemporaries are «too cowed» even to ask «if the God can exist that can do such things» (as if a public avowal of unbelief required any great reserves of fortitude in modern Britain).

You see, I know that Monckton is a pompous ass and frequently seems to be antagonistic purely for the sake of a charged debate, but I would say that he too has suffered from a similar amount of vitriol to that experienced by Kevin Trenberth and often for no good reason.

If your profile is boring, wordy, pompous, arrogant, grammatically incorrect, or filled with way too much information, then it doesn't matter whether you're a man or a woman, no one will respond.

A tpical Stanley Kramer's film: Serious (even pompous) and humanist, but essentially middlebrow, courtroom drama that while well - acted is too verbose and fearful of taking sides in the controversy over who's to blame for the Nazi atrocities.

Gaghan's sporadically ambitious directorial choices are intriguing (if occasionally a little too showy), while his dialogue tends to lean more towards the pompous than anything else.

«Safe» takes itself a bit too seriously now and then — portentous music cues occasionally crop up in ways that play up the show's pompous tendencies.

The rest of the cast also put in fine shows, particularly the pompous psuedo - intellectual Michael Sheen and the excellent, but all too brief, Adrien Brody as Salvador Dali.

Personally, we'd like to thank the trio of Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker, and Mark Weingarten for doing all they could within their power to drown out the Nolan brothers» pompous dialogue in favor of Hans Zimmer's IMAX - sized music cues, but even we'd draw the line at giving them the actual trophy, and there's little doubt that the Academy's sizeable ear trumpet - hoisting constituency will too.

Such implementation will divide viewers between those who find it too arty and pompous and those who think it brilliant and ingenious.

She rambled, she seemed self - involved, overly dramatic, pompous... let's just say it's probably a good thing she hasn't accepted too many awards publicly this year because I think it would have damaged her Oscar chances.

It's a good thing, too, because Anonymous itself is a piece of shit, as boring as it is pompous.

An injokey dig at Warner Bros. and Disney, numerous lame verbal gags involving Niko's Greek surname, Harry Shearer's pompous news anchor (who is not too far from one of his Simpsons roles, newsman Kent Brockman), and some comic stoicism by Jean Reno (playing — what else?

His naïveté is all too obvious when he obliviously delivers the officials a mish - mash of disconnected fragments that nonetheless captures the pompous arrogance and back - room deals of the office.

Far too often, the SHAM leaders delivering these pompous philosophies of life and living have no rightful standing to be doing any such thing.

However, don't judge too quickly as their often pompous hairdos mask their intelligence and innate athleticism.

Nowadays, if you see in any house owning pets, it's very markedly visible that the pets are also given so much importance that they too are leading a very pompous and showy life.

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.

A problem of writing for TreeHugger too much is that one becomes a bit of a pompous know - it - all, so when Harry ordered shrimp shao mai I had to point out the issues with it.

iPhone X Edition sounds a little too elaborated, even pompous, for Apple's highly anticipated first OLED handset.

Professional Profiles There are some people who argue that «Professional Profiles» should not be included anymore because they can perhaps come across as being too self - centred and pompous.

It's just too much detail to use all over the resume and it sounds pompous.

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.

Job Search Resume & Cover Letter advice blog branding career CAREEREALISM expert management personalIt's hard not to sound pompous, too.