Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard for seasoned diplomats to take the prideful new delegates as seriously as they took themselves, and this made for friction. "The more to the left, the more pompous in manner," complained one Western statesman. "They come with batons, aides and trainbearers. Why, one fellow won't even carry his own speeches...
Here again, though, the Council manages to get trapped by its desire for publicity. Many chances for valuable "detail" have been lost because of statements made by Council members. For some reason, they frequently manage to make themselves appear pompous and naive--and make their projects appear irrelevant--when they present them to the student body...
Failure of Faith. Dr. Fisher has been one of the least pompous of prelates-after a minor operation in 1939, he played Pack Up Your Troubles and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes on a barrel organ in Chester Market Square to raise funds for the hospital in which he had been treated. He has also been one of the least consistent. He has been more conservative than British public opinion on such issues as racial segregation ("This is not the sort of thing we should get excited and fanatical about") and divorce ("Adultery is becoming such a menace that...
Your recent series of editorials on "Major problems facing the Kennedy Administration" was a)pompous, b)pedestrian, and c) unreadable. A Reader
...constant undercutting of pompous pronouncements about twentieth century notions of the plight of modern man manifests itself in talk about God, nature ("We should turn resolutely towards nature." "We've tried that."), and even about the play itself ("...yesterday evening we spent blathering about nothing in particular. That's been going on now for half a century," or "This is becoming really insignificant.") But, Beckett also elevates vaudeville routines--quick changes of identical hats and pants falling down--and cliched conversation into ironic or obscene importance. Gogo says, "I can't go on like this." and Didi replies, "That...