Word: pompous
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...educational value of the fast to those participating may be important, but the exclusionist nature of the protest effectively shuts out many others who could be sharing in that education. The black armbands and the pompous ads may unnecessarily alienate a large number of non-participant students from constructive forms of protest...
...accomplishments, Zubin Mehta may truly be regarded as one of this country's leading conductors. However, his "unabashed immodesty" and his exceedingly high opinion of himself may eventually reveal this bright young star from the East to be the mere twinkle in the eye of a pompous...
...King Berenger learns in his last 90 minutes is an existential truism: one dies alone, with no quarter given and no help available. The only person who begs the king to cling to life is his succulently attractive second wife, young Queen Marie (Patricia Conolly). The pompous court physician is professionally adamant about the exactitude of his countdown to death, and the carping old crone (Eva Le Gallienne) who was the king's first wife adopts a get-on-with-it tone...
Your letter to me, and your even more pompous letter to my son, show no glint of comprehension of what is self evidently a most difficult and agonizing problem. It is entirely possible to defend Dow Chemical's right to destroy its corporate reputation by sending its agents to the Harvard Yard--and I would agree with you on this--without implying, as your letters do, that the protection of suppliers of napalm is a virtuous cause and that all sin lies with those who, in a groping and adolescent way are, trying to preserve their university from what they...
...book from being merely an insider's memoir of the liberal British intelligentsia-although on this level alone it is very highly readable. It is still amusing to hear, in Woolf's tone of melancholy malice, how "Tom" Eliot confessed that he had "behaved like a priggish, pompous little ass" on a weekend. And it is still poignant to learn that Sigmund Freud, ravaged by terminal cancer of the mouth and giving the appearance of "a half-extinct volcano," presented Virginia Woolf with a flower...