Word: pompous
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...neither the university's rules regulating such ties nor normative/ethical rules governing scholarship and intellectual life; 2) that normative/ethical rules governing scholarship and intellectual life are humbug anyway, especially when set against the imperatives of state; and 3) that the real scandal surrounding l'affaire Safran is the combined pompous posturing of moral rectitude by Safran's colleagues and the Harvard administration (on both of whom Helprin comes down very hard...
...term hopefully drew a pithy rebuke: "This once useful adverb meaning 'with hope' has been distorted and is now widely used to mean 'I hope' or 'it is to be hoped.' Such use is not merely wrong, it is silly." He gave "finalize" even shorter shrift: "A pompous, ambiguous verb." Funny was a word that should also be held at arm's length: "Nothing becomes funny by being labeled...
...years, critics of the University have charged that the professors here, especially hot shots such as Bernard Bailyn and Stephen Jay Gould, are arrogant and pompous...
...critics beware. At long last, the University has finally gotten rid of its arrogant and pompous instructors. The condescending ones are gone...
...critics beware. At long last, the University has finally gotten rid of its arrogant and pompous instructors. The condescending ones are gone...