Word: pompousity
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...would be among the best albums of the past twenty years. And then “Sam’s Town” finally dropped, and it turned out that by “best” Flowers meant “derivative” and “pompous.” Cue the indie backlash...
...right to privacy’ dates back to an 1890 Harvard Law Review article by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis.” Notice in particular the use of explicit dates and the indefinite fourth-person referent “one” to get the full pompous effect that you’re going for. Not only will you be able to kick it with your lab partner while you two calculate relativistic momentum, spend long enough in the Hist A core and you may find yourself feigning the role of a humanities buff without realizing it. It helps...
...could be so stoned he could barely hold a mic, let alone an audience's attention.) Krassner asked Lenny how these lectures on the law squared with his old 15-25-second rules, and he replied, "I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce." That might sound pompous, but, truly, Lenny had become sui generis ? his own genre...
...Puffery, for sure. Pompous, it may be, But prurient...
...concerts held in Paris over the summer. Nightclubs and first-class travel compartments are similarly indifferent to the enthusiastic words of the Center for European Studies’ executive director. More importantly, to participate in this Harvardian opportunity, one must be able to take pleasure in the gloriously pompous and refined traditions of France, such as the subtle art of formal letter-writing and the oligarchic conviction that true science can only be accomplished within damask walls and under frescoed vaults. It is preferable also to hold an abiding interest in personalized swords and marmoreal likenesses. Still, for those Harvard...