Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along Lisbon's sunny streets last week nearly all available space was filled with election posters. One bore the likeness of Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and of President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, a 79-year-old general and pompous figurehead. The legend on the poster was: "Dois homens uma só obra"-two men with one work. Opponents of the regime had crossed out the a in uma, which changed the meaning: two men, one goes to the bathroom...
After his friend King Ludwig committed suicide, Rudolph longed to do the same. He pored over newspaper reports of suicide, discussed the subject endlessly with his friends. But the turning point in his miserable, pompous life came when he heard that the daughter of a cantor, out of love for him, had stood outside his window to see him, and died of exposure. Fascinated by the notion that he might have died in her arms, Rudolph-begged an army officer to perform a double suicide with him. When the officer refused, he made the same plea to his favorite mistress...
Edward Finnegan makes an impressive and pompous Agamemnon. Gregg Martin, as Achilles, is quite as conceited and despicably treacherous as intended. And John Peters plays a delightfully stupid and proud Ajax...
...completely fair to condemn the Advocate as a magazine because of Frederick Amory's article in its current issue. The Advocate has certainly printed good stories and good poems from time to time. But it is often obscure and more often pompous, and since Mr. Amory's article called a "fine critical estimate of Delmore Schwartz" by the editors--is almost incredibly pompous and more than incredibly obscure, it stands as a sound if exaggerated example of the magazine's bad aspects...
...said that Mr. Amory's article is almost incredibly pompous. It is. If the above examples don't do double duty and convince you of the article's pompousness, pick out a paragraph at random and start to read...