Word: pompous
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...Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution needed a bang, and the announcement of the missile-borne nuclear test filled that need. The test showed that Chinese science is "advancing at even greater speed under the brilliant illumination of Mao Tse-tung's thought," crowed Peking's characteristically pompous communiqu...
Nobody is more incensed than pompous Walter Dobius, whose philosophy is, simply, better Red than dead. The Administration has gone mad, he declares. He demands that the Gorotoland case be dealt with in the U.N. Finally, the U.N. Security Council does act on its own. In a scene described with skill and impressive authenticity, the Council debates the issue and is on the verge of censuring the U.S.-when the American delegation casts its first veto in history...
...believer." On the other hand, Catholics can rightly argue that "there is a profound dislocation of a sacramental nature found within Protestantism." But true Christian spirituality, McDonnell argues, requires both framework and freedom. "Without the framework the way is easily open to a prayer which is emotional, subjective, pompous; without freedom prayer becomes mechanistic, frigid, oblivious to the needs of the local church...
...farewell to his troops was a bit pompous, but not in the least over stated: "It has been an honor to have led you in the four glorious campaigns in which the Fifth Commando changed the face of the Congo and altered the course of history." With that, Lieut. Colonel Mike Hoare, 47, last week said goodbye to his 250-man force of white mercenaries and departed the Congo for a round-the-world cruise on his 38-ft. yacht...
Shrewd was scarcely the word for Adams when he arrived in Paris early in 1780 to take up his duties as U.S. peace commissioner. He was green, scared, pompous, moralistic and tactless. Vergennes, the French Foreign Minister, who intended to be "master of the peace," gave a sharp tug on the purse strings and "persuaded" the Continental Congress to divide its peacemaking powers among five commissioners.* A little later he also forced Congress to instruct its commissioners "to undertake nothing in the negotiations for peace without the knowledge and concurrence of the ministers of France." To make sure these incapacitating...