Word: pompous
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...Mozart, for example - was also troubling? both in and of itself and because it carried such bald connotations of racial superiority in the suggestion that the saxophonist was worthy of comparison with this or that European master." I'll tell you what - rather than troubling yourself plowing through this pompous and dreary academic tome, why don't we both do something more interesting? I'll listen to my Lester Young CDs, while you try and find a musician who'll feel insulted if you compare him to Mozart...
...ignores the fact that the judges presiding over the court will come from nations committed to the rule of law, such as Great Britain and Canada. It also assumes that an American could not commit a war crime heinous enough to be worthy of prosecution. This is nothing but pompous self-aggrandizement; a war criminal is a war criminal, whatever the nationality...
When New Mexico Governer Gary Johnson—who also spoke at Harvard over the weekend—proclaimed himself “The American Dream” for starting his own handyman company out of college, somehow it sounded more pompous than inspirational...
...relative whose western norms of sexual permissiveness complicate the coupling; and the wedding planner, Mr. Dubey (Vijay Razz) threatens to become a mocking caricature of the upwardly mobile Indian, with his prized collection of digital gadgetry, dedication to “foreign fashion” and insistence on the pompous title of “events manager...
...privately savor the political rewards that the storms will blow in their direction. Such hypocritical tears were more effectively shed when the world was not in the constant glare of television. These days some of them are barely able to keep a thin smile hidden while they trot out pompous phrases of concern, interjected by poison - words that send private signals to their violent constituency. The camera shows...