Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surface, Forster's tales trip the fantastic lightly, full of comic improbabilities which unite past & present, heaven & earth. They abound with pompous Englishmen on Italian holidays, Anglican curates who sport with pagan fauns, young ladies with good breeding and bad taste. But beneath their staid respectability lurks the irreverent demon of Pan, Greek god of nature...
...face of all the griping, the Army, so important in Cuban politics, is still on Grau's side. That makes for security. Most weekends Grau hops into a military plane and flies off with his family and fat, pompous Army Chief Genovevo Pérez Dámera to sun himself on the beach at beautiful Veradero...
...wrong: it possesses an animal vigor. . . ." Out of the side of its mouth, the Tribune proudly accepted the tribute: "Comes the dawn. It ain't Orphan Annie. It's the hair on our chest." The editorial staff has a talent for translating the Colonel's often pompous edicts into gutty, readable prose...
...beaten up in bed and two men who achieve this for her wander through a section of their mutually depraved lives, the reader does not know if he has read a parody or a psychological study. If parody, it is not clearly such, and if psychological, it is pompous, muddled, and shocking just for the sake of being shocking...
Delicately balancing his fantasy with realistic psychological probing, Harold Wendell Smith shown skill and imagination equally in "The Fireman's Hat," though the ending is somewhat unsatisfying. Where Smith succeeds in avoiding obviousness and pompous language in portraying a character, Alan Friedman's "All Truth Is a Lie" partly fails. Starting with an interesting and mature idea, 'Friedman has constructed a somewhat nebulous story in which the author's manipulations are all too evident. The writing is good, but the Virginia Woolf-ish musing on Life and the nature of Time, though well-adapted to the story, is overworked...