Word: pompousity
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...outburst touched off a barrage of letters to the London Times. Pudgy, pompous Lord Brabazon wrote that he thought he saw a painting of what seemed to be broken iron castings. Matisse had titled it A Recumbent Woman. (Huffed Lord Brabazon, "We shall soon be told that a multiple drill has sex appeal.") Two letter writers thought Picasso's pictures should be kept from children. Another critic was not so worried. He reported overhearing a six-year-old, who had intently studied a swollen, mysterious Picasso abstraction, comment: "Why, there's a hippopotamus...
...effect, Francesca begins to remember a happy childhood followed by years of frustration. Her schoolmistress beats her across the knuckles; her bad-tempered but handsome guardian (James Mason) loves music but hates women; her first suitor, an American saxophone player, proposes marriage but lets her get away; a pudgy, pompous portrait painter merely proposes that she run off with him to a tumbledown villa in Italy...
What is to the point, however, is that the student will be wrong. Faure's music has an individuality of communication, an absence of pompous hokum and fraud which makes it highly valuable in these and days. It is wholly charming and completely sincere...
...Greying, pompous, misogynous Monsieur Jules has been official barber to French parliamentarians for upwards of two decades. Last month, when he heard that women would sit for the first time in a French National Assembly, Jules resigned. "Les femmes," he sputtered. "Pouf...
...Pompous Labor Lord Strabolgi (the tenth of his line) backslapped portly Labor Lord Quibell (first of his line), an ex-Midlands bricklayer. Lord and Lady Woolton (he top-hatted, she bejeweled) nodded to Sir John and Lady Anderson (he in formal cutaway, she in wedge sandals). Opposition Leader Winston Churchill, in striped pants and spotted bow tie, came with Anthony Eden, magnificent in formal clothes and studied carelessness...