Word: pompous
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...little too easy to speak of literary art transcending genre Hamlet remains a revenge play, the greatest novel in English begins and ends as an American sea story, and transcendence is only a poor and pompous synonym for quality. Ross MacDonald has taken from the great tradition of crime fiction as much as he has given to it. He has enriched and expanded this tradition, but he has never abandoned or violated it. Like so many of the best American authors, he has produced a body of work in a genre style which meets the most severe standards of substance...
...Pompous and vague on the stump of his career...
...usually inaccurate. The 11 clubs, whose combined membership comprise about 10 per cent of the college, vary widely in their attitudes and isolation from the rest of Harvard. Not all, or even a majority of club members, are snobby in the least. And then again, some are the most pompous, close-minded people you'll ever...
...Morgenthau was one of the President's closest confidants and most loyal disciples. Crusty and at times a bit pompous, he was a master of intra-Cabinet maneuver and often stole the march on his fellow secretaries in influencing the President's decisions. It was he, more than any other Administration figure, who drafted the Allied economic battle plan for World War II and brought America's fiscal physique back to fighting trim...
Sole Control. As long as Wieland lived, the new Bayreuth flourished. He was the artistic director; Wolfgang stuck to business management. Mama Winifred stayed away. Wieland's new productions were aimed imaginatively toward new, always controversial, often brilliantly successful dramatic ideals. Instead of the heavily literal, violently brassy, pompous stagings admired by Hitler, in which choral scenes often resembled SS rallies in a Black Forest thicket, Wieland created stark, impressionistic stage pictures with a shaft of light here, a barren rock there. To enhance Bayreuth as a cultural force of worldwide significance, Wieland broke with the old chauvinistic policies...