Word: pompousity
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...Forest knew the South before the war-the courtesy, generosity and courage of the Southerners; the pompous, polite windbags who believed that their flowery compliments were unequaled for elegance in any other society that had ever existed; the intellectuals who confused bookishness with learning; the Southern lady who personally whipped her slaves...
...critics point to his age as his greatest liability as a presidential candidate. They feel that he is pompous, vain and unapproachable, that even though he is a good Senator he would make a poor President because of his lack of administrative training. They feel that his conversion from isolationism came long after most men of intelligence had already made the change, that he is virtually blank on domestic affairs...
Huckster Nietzsche. The 19th Century's Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche made the grade in 20th Century advertising. In the New York Times, John Ward shoe stores led off an ad for a "neither staid nor stuffy" shoe with the Nietzschean quote: "I am not successful at being pompous...
...Olympic Committee and the International Ice Hockey Federation are supposed to pick the U.S. team jointly, but since they were backing rival teams, two teams were sent to Switzerland, neither properly accredited. At the peak of the bickering, stuff-shirted Avery Brundage, the U.S. Olympic chairman, issued a pompous communique announcing that "a great victory has been achieved . . ." but he proved to be the only one who thought so. The International Olympic Committee sided with Brundage. But the Swiss, who as hosts were in charge of the winter Olympics, sided with the other team. Result: hockey was ruled...
...Savoy operas into the world has long subdued individual talent to group traditions. At moments their work might seem more traditional than talented; but the D'Oyly Carters remained the most stylish and polished of G. & S. performers, the most grandly operatic as they trilled, the most augustly pompous as they marched, the most blatantly patrician as they tapped their fans...