Word: pomp
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fall Her Royal Highness journeyed into chill Ireland to the famed Belfast shipyards of Harland & Wolff especially to honor the White Star Line. She understood that they were going to build the largest ocean liner in the world, the gargantuan Oceanic of 60,000 tons. Graciously and with appropriate pomp Princess Mary inaugurated work on the Oceanic's 1,000-ft. backbone, or keel...
Thus was the conciliatory spirit of the recent Concordat between Italy and the Holy See expressed with churchly pomp. The Pope
...Osborn of the Evening World was low man. He saw 86 plays during the past season, guessed right only four times more than he guessed wrong, expressed no opinion twelve times, scored .453. Just above him was large Percy Hammond of the Herald Tribune, purveyor of false pomp and true drollery, who scored .616. Walter Winchell, Broadway slangman and gossiper, until last week of the tabloid Graphic (see p. 18) scored .790. He was just below dignified, grammatical J. Brooks Atkinson of the Times (.798) who, in turn, ran second to the winner, baldish, bespectacled Robert Littell of the Evening...
...Late John Singer Sargent's talents are often flayed by modern estbetes who believe much of his painting is mere pomp and polish. Last week the undergraduate editors of the Harvard Crimson assailed Artist Sargent from another angle. Discussing his martial murals (one of which shows a U. S. soldier standing on a prostrate German) in the Widener Library they said: "Critics have shown them to be indefensible on grounds esthetic: War posters raised to the rank of mural decoration. But it is not their ugliness which would trouble the sensitive visitor. . . . [They] are out of place...
...Verdante ("youth, freshness, unsophistication, innocence . . . only slightly warm, but definitely not cold"); 8) Aquagreen ("cool lakes in the northwoods"); 9) Turquoise ("peace, tranquility . . . calm tropical seas'"); 10) Azure ("sedate, reserved . . . slightly gloomy"); 11) Nocturne ("night shadows, despair, underworld"); 12) Purplehaze ("pronounced cooling effect"); 13) Fleur-de-lys ("pomp, dignity"); 14) Amaranth ("approaching sensuality and abandon"); 15) Caprice ("hilarious pink, carnival moods"); 16) Inferno ("burning buildings, panic, anarchy"); 17) Argent ("grey, everyday life...