Word: pompousity
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Sullivan didn't admire all the Union selections-he had never read The Anatomy of Melancholy, considers Chesterfield dull and pompous, and The Virginian "tame stuff for a student in the atomic age." Besides, nobody had stolen any Shakespeare or Dickens. His consoling afterthought: "Well, the academic year is only half over...
...will be on the inside receiving brickbats, instead of outside throwing them. We must be alert and liberal in the sense of Abraham Lincoln's concept that the individual is the complex heart of society. We must not be a stuffy and pompous party...
...happened because the Army had placed in charge of the prison a pompous, unimaginative, and thoroughly likable officer who wasn't up to his job. Colonel Burton C. Andrus loved that job. Every morning his plump little figure, looking like an inflated pouter pigeon, moved majestically into the court, impeccably garbed in his uniform and highly shellacked helmet. His bow to the judges as they entered was one of the sights of Nürnberg. He loved to pen little notes: "The American Colonel invites the distinguished French prosecutor and his staff to accompany him to a baseball game...
Upton Close, pompous radiocaster, Anglophobe, labor-baiter, Red-baiter, whose radio punditing deals as often with fancy as with fact; Merwin K. Hart, insurance lawyer, author, lecturer, admirer of Franco's Spain and scorner of the word "democracy," who once declared: "Tougher products result from a Fascist education"; John T. Flynn, writer, vitriolic and acid-tongued spearhead of the prewar, now defunct, America First Committee...
...knew even better than the American Legion's pompous John Stelle, who trumpeted a blast of criticism at him, that there were delays in filing claims, that medical records were not on hand, that much of his personnel was incompetent. He shut Stelle up with a curt report outlining shortcomings of which even Stelle was not aware. He doggedly applied himself to his business, building an organization which he hopes can do the job. In his flat Missouri twang, he said briefly: "I'm not worried...