"We don't want lavish, pompous weddings, much better to have a private and dignified affair, " he said.
Her pompous, middle-aged husband, Chanu, quickly rolls out the blueprint for her new life.
She gave no quarter to an opinionated bishop, a pompous statesman, or a self-satisfied professor.
Fiana Toibin rounds out the cast as the third Gregg sibling, pompous Margaret Drybone.
To speak clearly: clarity always trumps a pompous regard for niceties of grammar.
There is a tendency for media pooh-bahs to take themselves so seriously that they risk becoming pompous caricatures.
In fact, the city already has a resident hero in Captain Amazing, played with pompous flair by Greg Kinnear.
Behind a rough, often pompous, exterior, say his friends, beats a kind heart.
Critics have not always liked his creations, however, and he has gained a reputation as something of a pompous curmudgeon.
Although many people call him devious, pompous, snobbish, plummy and aloof, he is also capable of great charm and warm friendship.
Often called "pompous, rude and brash" by others, Winner said that, underneath, he was actually a shy and lonely person.
By contrast, Widmerpool, his fat and pompous schoolfellow who is unexpectedly successful in adult life, is a great comic creation.
Thornton played the pompous store walker, who bragged about his military exploits during the war and looked down on junior staff.
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There's also this slightly pompous suggestion that a best-of-seven series is the most honest way of sorting out the best teams.
But most of this sequel, written and directed by the brothers Larry and Andy Wachowski, is heavy-spirited and pompous, even faintly embarrassing.
Find a third, and use it to poke holes in pompous partisans.
Audin sat in front of his desk, and when he removed his pompous headgear, I could finally get a good look at him.
Hu is seen as a "Zhou Enlai II" - a kind man who doesn't put on airs, the antithesis of a pompous bureaucrat.
Pachauri is a pompous, arrogant man (with an awful haircut) who brooks no disagreement with the global warming orthodoxy and deserves to go.
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He found politicians pompous rhetoricians who made promises they never kept.
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Mr Rushdie is usually too effervescent a writer to be pompous, but here he is drawn into making overwrought and grandiose pronouncements on the state of America.
As Yelena, the seductive young wife of a pompous older professor, Ms Blanchett bewitches both the sad-sack Vanya (Richard Roxburgh) and the rakish doctor Astrov (Hugo Weaving).
Ignore the pompous music and marvel at the night-becomes-day pace.
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Rambling, pompous and often completely incomprehensible yes to all that too.
"The last thing we wanted to do was to do a sort of pompous, classic version of 'Romeo and Juliet, '" said director David Leveaux, a five-time Tony Award nominee.
Sweating like a sow, I wrestled my suitcase up two levels of stalled escalators, all the while silently cursing this person as a dimwit, that one as a pompous ass.
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The two military men of note are the regimental doctor (Tom Nelis, compassionate and a bit pompous), and Fosca's kindly cousin, the colonel who leads the regiment (Stephen Bogardus, briskly authoritative).
And, though it causes me frequent pain, I still think the rowdy, aggressive style of British political reporting is better than the pompous, self-censoring stuff you see in some other European countries.
Then of course, there's Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr. in a knockout performance), a pompous multi-Oscar winner who is always eager to show audiences just how far he'll go for the sake of art.
Plopped in the middle of these very funny but shrewd travelogues is a chapter subtitled "Taking Econ 101 for Kicks" that should forever bury the pompous pretensions of a lot of what passes for economics.
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