Word: pompousity
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...Trudeau won so decisively was that he matched both the times and the country's mood. A fresh face in a gallery of stale political portraits, he made no promises at all, offered no pat answers and spoke with a candor that was in refreshing contrast to the pompous rhetoric of the past. He seemed a man neither of the left nor of the right, but a man for the future. His campaign was based on the simple, unequivocal proposition: "One Canada." As a bilingual French Canadian, he appears to be the right man to bring the French...
...been dead long enough to find a place in the hagiography of hip. As of now, few young poets feel the need to justify their work with critical commentary. George Amabile's response is typical: "I can't think of anything that wouldn't sound pompous or absurd." Such an attitude may not prove healthy for poetics, but it is good for poetry...
Alas, the style that West developed in Rome and later brought to England was anything but natural. He experimented with pompous neoclassicism, then bombastic religious allegory. He pioneered in introducing elements of realism into his heavy historical tableaux, won riches and renown, was elected president of the Royal Academy. But to Byron...
...Tetley's version, the naked corpse (danced by Jaap Flier) suddenly twitches, sits up, leaps off the table, and begins to dance his yearning for his lost life with his wife, his mother, his childhood playmates. Tetley has turned the tables-his cadaver is more alive than the pompous doctors...
...Chinoise, the title is a sardonic reference to a girl (Anne Wiazemski, the second Mme. Godard) who fancies herself a China doll. Godard pokes fun at her windy braggadocio and her comrades' pompous planning with numberless nose-thumbing cinematic tricks. Players step out of their roles to tell the camera their biographies. Scenes are interspersed with stills of Alice in Wonderland, pictures of Stalin, shots of comic strips. The director's off-camera voice constantly interrogates his performers, who stop acting to reply. Visually, La Chinoise is almost entirely successful. The rapid shifting of subject matter, the kinetic...