Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, the most accomplished novelists are sometimes guilty of amateurish passages, exaggerated humor, forced sprightliness, pompous philosophizing, misty sentimentality. Conventional poetry can be glaringly revealed in translation...
...pompous way," smiles Joe, "I conceived ours as a column of information -halfway between pure opinion and what is essentially gossip. I felt there had been no formula for the use of material in this area as news or opinion...
...Forest knew the South before the war-the courtesy, generosity and courage of the Southerners; the pompous, polite windbags who believed that their flowery compliments were unequaled for elegance in any other society that had ever existed; the intellectuals who confused bookishness with learning; the Southern lady who personally whipped her slaves...
...critics point to his age as his greatest liability as a presidential candidate. They feel that he is pompous, vain and unapproachable, that even though he is a good Senator he would make a poor President because of his lack of administrative training. They feel that his conversion from isolationism came long after most men of intelligence had already made the change, that he is virtually blank on domestic affairs...
Huckster Nietzsche. The 19th Century's Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche made the grade in 20th Century advertising. In the New York Times, John Ward shoe stores led off an ad for a "neither staid nor stuffy" shoe with the Nietzschean quote: "I am not successful at being pompous...