Word: pompous
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...beautiful voice and a beautiful soul. He is not another misinformed celebrity with a cause. He has done his homework, made friends on both sides of the partisan divide in Washington and worked to bring hope to those in despair. I would ask anyone who dismisses him as a pompous rock star, What have you done to help those plagued by poverty and disease...
...best schools, which are out of the reach of the underprivileged class regardless of race or religion. But intelligence is unrelated to class. France, a nation that prides itself on its respect for human rights, should embrace the ideals of liberté, égalité, fraternité and give up pompous sermonizing. DIDIER BRAUN Antony, France...
...supporting characters are excellent, most notably Noah A. Rosenblum ’08 in his frenzied and hilariously unpredictable portrayal of the eccentric logician. Hoagland gives a stunningly versatile performance; he affectedly twirls his umbrella and skips a few dance steps as the pompous Jean, but during his transformation into a rhinoceros, he paces and bellows with a vigorous pent-up power...
...Steve Jones' signature beefy guitar riffs and Rotten's venomous social commentary, Never Mind The Bollocks is rightly hailed as a classic that helped shake rock'n'roll out of its shaggy doldrums, re-inserting a palpable whiff of danger and defiance into an art-form grown shallow and pompous. Never mind the narrow mores of tongue-clicking punk rock purists-the Sex Pistols have more than earned their place in the Hall of Fame. Respect...
Stephen Colbert is sitting in his office, cutting up a take-out salad and telling me what a total jerk Stephen Colbert is. He's a hypocrite. A blowhard. Pompous, superficial and vain. He is "poorly informed but highly opinionated." Colbert is speaking about his on-air persona, the pundit and star of The Colbert Report, the spin-off of Comedy Central's hit fake-news series The Daily Show. Still, after a while, he stops himself. "I think I need to start calling him Col-bear," says the actor, using the correct pronunciation of his surname...