Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes some prodding to get Will to discuss his general philosophical outlook. Asked what his major intellectual influences have been, he says with a slight, sardonic smile, "That's an invitation to be pompous or obscure. If you say Irving Kristol and Aristotle, you're probably both." But he admits to being a conservative, with some qualification. "That's a somewhat richer and more complicated tradition than some conservatives. I'm not a Lockean. I'm more a Burkean," he says, distinguishing himself from other more libertarian conservatives like Barry Goldwater and Milton Friedman. Of the former, he observes...
...TIME cover story on Mrs. Finley. Anyone who could endure 34 years married to that pompous, miserable, acid-tongued idiot deserves recognition...
...self-confidence never becomes pompous or overbearing, but it is always present. Perhaps it is an essential attribute for a successful conductor. Chen says, "I knew Ozawa when he was walking around like a bum in the New York streets. Now you look at him with all the shining things all around him. It is illusory...
During the time chronicled in these notebooks (expertly edited by Leon Edel), Wilson was merely Bunny Wilson, a bright, pompous young writer among other writers in Greenwich Village. He supported himself with work at Vanity Fair, where the staff sometimes played a game with the secretaries called "The Rape of the Sabine Women," and later became an associate editor of the more staid New Republic. By day, he reviewed the best of his contemporaries. After hours, he saw them not quite at their best: E.E. Cummings lying in a bathtub maliciously imitating John Dos Passes' speech impediment; Dorothy Parker...
...Last Laugh, it remains one of the most fluid, and at the end, accurately satirical movies we have. Emil Jannings, the master of pompous pathos gives an unforgettable performance, although one can keep as steadier head about both this and his harrowing work in The Blue Angel in remembering his Nazi complicity. The happy tail tacked on to The Last Laugh was apparently a specifically comtemptuous stab at American film tastes. It is almost impossible not to be elated despite the fantastic slur...