Word: pompous
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...latitude in his descriptions? I might be tempted to accept his distortions, if only the book weren't so grindingly dull. In his efforts to sound like a political philosopher, Revel manages to make his startling premises excruciatingly boring. Without Marx or Jesus neither convincesnordelights. Revel displays so much pompous and artificial scholarship, I even find it difficult to be outraged by his phony ideological posturing. Absolutely rabid francophiles or phobes might be interested in this minor rhetorical gesture. The rest of us should forget...
...evident than it was last week as the U.N. debated the India-Pakistan war. While thousands were being killed, the U.N. floundered through 26 hours of procedural arguments, five stillborn resolutions and shrill big power confrontations, including two Soviet vetoes. As the interpreters buzzed the long-winded, angry or pompous phrases, spectators could visualize so many bullets, so many wounds per word: simultaneous translation accompanied by simultaneous death...
...indeed a confirmed misogynist. Few facets of society escaped Wylie's wrath over the 50-year span of his literary career. The Princeton-educated iconoclast was a prolific writer of overstated and splenetic books and magazine articles in which he inveighed against everything from preachers to pollution to "pompous slut" politicians. This year, in Sons and Daughters of Mom, Wylie turned his guns from Mom to her hippie children: "second generation vipers...
Larry DiCara might have won his "First Test" (Crimson September 22), but Garrett Epps' pompous, incredibly racist write up on it diminished his victory and the Crimson's reportorial stature...
...worst. Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell appear as two prisoners who have escaped from an anonymous jail in an unspecified country. They are pursued by a nameless army of faceless foes. Wherever they run, a helicopter hovers over them like a wrathful god. It is all very pompous, the kind of vague allegory that is open to any number of interpretations and able to sustain none...