Word: pompousity
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Across the River and into the Trees, by Ernest Hemingway. The No. 1 U.S. novelist at his pompous, pretentious, and patronizing worst (TIME, Sept...
Across the River and into the Trees, by Ernest Hemingway. The No. 1 U.S. novelist at his pompous, pretentious, and patronizing worst (TIME, Sept...
...show sizzled with much of Allen at his best-knife-edge thrusts at the income-tax men, rival comedians, and pompous executives. It also fizzled occasionally with some of Allen at his worst, e.g., a leaden slapstick routine kidding TV consultants. By the time he was ready to wind up the program with a familiar traveling salesman version of Carmen, Allen had brought on Guest Stars Sono Osato, Risë Stevens and Monty Woolley, had put on half a dozen sly lampoons and proved himself as fine a mugger as he is an ad-libber...
...direction and Edmund Gwenn's superb acting, is to give the picture's closing episodes the winning quality of Miracle on 34th Street. Like Miracle, in which Actor Gwenn played a put-upon Santa Claus, Mister 880 works up the surefire comic-sentimental appeal of pompous authority melting in the warmth of an ingenuous little man of good will...
Across the River and into the Trees, by Ernest Hemingway. The No. 1 U.S. novelist at his pompous, pretentious, and patronizing worst (TIME, Sept...