Word: pompousity
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...really like Homer a lot. I likethe classics. I think there's a need forreconstruction in poetry. I've read the Odysseythree times, three different translations. A lotof people who read this are thinking, god thisguy's pompous...I like the Greeks a lot. I love toread cool literature. That's my favorite chore, toread arcane, abstract tomes...
Grabowicz said he felt Gorbachev's statement was nonsense and added that he thought Gorbachev really meant "it's a catastrophe for me, but in his pompous manner he replaced mankind for himself...
...hadn't had a public inauguration since 1909 so there was no one alive at Harvard who remembered the president being inaugurated publicly," Gomes says. "I think it came off with style. It wasn't pompous. But it had pomp...
...first listen, the mind spins, the ear reels. It sounds as if Ted Baxter, the preposterously pompous anchorman on the old Mary Tyler Moore sitcom, had escaped into the ether and had been resurrected as a talk-show host. Dial scanners have to wonder: Is this guy kidding? Well, of course. Sometimes. As when he announces the Limbaugh neutron bomb: "It vaporizes liberals but leaves conservatives standing." Or when he bleats a duh-duh-lut duh-duh-lut fanfare, announcing a Pee-wee Herman news update to the tune of Michael Jackson's Beat It. Or when he handicaps N.F.L...
...tennis pros of both sexes are petulant, greedy children. Yes, their agents, management execs, tournament directors and manufacturers' reps have the fresh, openhearted appeal of plant lice. No doubt Andre Agassi's extensive entourage is as pompous and absurd as Feinstein says, and somehow it is not startling to hear that the parents of young French Open winner Michael Chang are widely unloved. But there's more to world-class tennis than posturers and connivers, and Feinstein, who covered tennis for the recently defunct sports daily, the National, misses the the joy of the game almost completely...