Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flesh. President Truman was in Missouri, out of TV range, and Governor Dewey's Manhattan suite was placed off limits by the secret service men who had come up from Washington to guard the next President. As interviewees, that left Candidate Henry Wallace (who looked bitter and pompous), Candidate Norman Thomas (chipper and witty) and major & minor party officials...
...average man has a sneaking suspicion that psychiatry is either hilariously funny or else a bit sacrilegious. Possibly it is some new form of "European smubtlety"-or maybe just a lot of pompous nonsense? The public has taken this relatively new scientific whatsis home on approval, but has not yet bought...
...against Finland, directed the defense of Leningrad against the German invasion, conducted the ideological purge of writers, artists, musicians, philosophers and scientists, founded the Cominform, and led the attack on Tito. Muscovites, however, were more likely to remember him for his funeral. It was the most pompous display the city had seen since Lenin was laid away...
...English country house around the year 1900 (only one, Pastors and Masters, takes place after 1918) and all her characters, regardless of their age and education, talk in a language which is a combination of Gertrude Stein at her clearest and a book of Victorian etiquette at its most pompous ("Will you rise with your unconscious grace and ring the bell?" they say). They talk thus even when they are planning murder, fraud and forgery, or saying aloud the thoughts that living people are most careful not to say. They do their grim talking in dining rooms and nurseries which...
...people. There is hardly a line that he speaks, or a gesture he makes, which falls short of shining mastery, in the terms in which he conceives the role. But the conception is in some important ways limited. It is clear that Olivier has a laudable distaste for the pompous, the pansy and the pathological Princes who have so often dishonored the poem. He sees-and plays -Hamlet as a brave, resolute, delicate-souled man who was required, as Goethe said, to do the one thing on earth which happened to be impossible for that particular...