Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...monk's search for his daughter. Pelagia's conversion seems off-stage and is dwarfed by the reunion with her father in the final scene--a disgracefully pointless ending for an experienced dramatist like Cole. The libretto's simple-minded images ("today I went wandering as a bird") and pompous archaisms (the story is "for them that have an eye to see") deaden the opera still further. The characters emerge as cute Sunday school paste...
...gesture that seems both apologetic and pompous, Graham Greene has insisted that his light novels (those in which God does not have a speaking part) should be called "entertainments." The tag does not fit all light novels, because it carries the implication that the author can write much more deeply when he cares to. But it suits exactly the books of Iris Murdoch, a professional philosopher and former Oxford don. whose only equal as an entertainment writer is Greene himself...
...There is a psychological crust that covers memories, and most people are afraid to break it after only 18 years," says Violinist Isaac Stern. "I could not and would not play my music in Germany or Austria, or with any German or Austrian citizen or orchestra. This is less pompous, I would say, than establishing myself as a private denazification court to decide which particular Germans are acceptable...
Once inside, Philip began to steer the company away from making "pompous imitations of the past." Carefully selecting artists whose works span the spectrum of contemporary design, he recruited Raymond Loewy, France's Raymond Peynet. Finland's Tapio Wirkkala, and Germany's Hans Theo Baumann. From their designs the company produced its simple, elegant Studio Line. As the Studio Line's sales rose, so did Philip's influence in the company; in 1958 he became president. Though he has kept a good many older patterns for nostalgic buyers, the Studio Line now accounts...
Before civilization became overclotted with low pragmatical fellows, a man of letters cut a fine figure in the world. None was more pompous ("splendid; magnificent; grand") than Dr. Samuel Johnson, known to his contemporaries as the Great Lexicographer, or the Great Cham of literature...