She gave no quarter to an opinionated bishop, a pompous statesman, or a self-satisfied professor.
The scene of their encounter at a pompous royal procession, where he is perched atop a high horse and the maiden is packed among street-level gawkers is an elaborate masterpiece of montage equal to any in Eisenstein.
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.
To speak clearly: clarity always trumps a pompous regard for niceties of grammar.
Critics have not always liked his creations, however, and he has gained a reputation as something of a pompous curmudgeon.
There's also this slightly pompous suggestion that a best-of-seven series is the most honest way of sorting out the best teams.
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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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).
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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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.
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Behind a rough, often pompous, exterior, say his friends, beats a kind heart.
"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.
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).
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.
"We don't want lavish, pompous weddings, much better to have a private and dignified affair, " he said.
Audin sat in front of his desk, and when he removed his pompous headgear, I could finally get a good look at him.
Some of the images and period settings are lovely, but Coppola, once the greatest storyteller in movies, has settled for the kind of unworkably pompous nonsense that most people leave behind in a college bull session.
"I'll have an Attila the Honey, a Back Hand of God, and two Pompous Pompadour Porters", might be your beer order at the cool little Six Acres bar (203 Carrall St) in the city's historic Gastown district.
In fact, the city already has a resident hero in Captain Amazing, played with pompous flair by Greg Kinnear.
By contrast, Widmerpool, his fat and pompous schoolfellow who is unexpectedly successful in adult life, is a great comic creation.
Find a third, and use it to poke holes in pompous partisans.
The press, currently so pious and pompous about the BBC's mistakes, faces the Leveson report at a very low level of public trust, and unless it learns to deal with its mistakes in a serious and transparent way, that is how it will remain.
There is a tendency for media pooh-bahs to take themselves so seriously that they risk becoming pompous caricatures.
Often called "pompous, rude and brash" by others, Winner said that, underneath, he was actually a shy and lonely person.
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