Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...identified by its sudsy head). It's all very apparent today, this spirit of "leben und leben lassen"-a cheery apathy and beery tolerance combined with a benign condescension toward anything German that is not also old Bavarian. The ambience of the cities to the north-those pompous Prussians-can be described in straight lines and right angles. Munich gives you embroidered corners and fanciful curlicues...
...York's celebrated concrete canyons and glittering skyscrapers, which many people consider exciting, are actually sterile, pompous and stupefyingly dull. At least that is Melvyn Kaufman's view-and he is doing something about it. A partner in the William Kaufman Organization, a prominent New York building firm founded by his father, he has launched a campaign "to humanize buildings through shock and disruption...
...while the trio, undoubtedly intended to be the lightest moment in this quartet, became a curiously contemplative "solo" for first violinist Shmuel Ashkenasi. In the final movement, Haydn employs the admittedly questionable device of recapitulating in the parallel major what had been rather serious material in G minor. The pompous ritard prior to this moment, as well as the following saccharine tempo, again made a perfectly transparent gesture seem a bit stilted...
...Oxford English Dictionary (abridged) defines emporium as "a pompous name for: the Mart 1839." The Spaghetti Emporium, 33 Dunster Street, is a pompous excuse for a restaurant in Harvard Square. It opens for lunch at 11:30 a.m. and remains open until midnight Sunday through Wednesday and until 1 a.m. Thursday through Sunday...
...timing and emotional control of the lead characters is excellent. Pope Brock plays an appropriately ingenuous, high-strung and thoroughly bewildered Rosencrantz to Bernie Holmberg's pompous, melodramatic, and equally bewildered Guildenstern. The most intense monologue of the play and much of its dramatic focus belong to the Head Player of the troupe performing at Elsinore, a part skillfully played by Chris Josephs. He is the most noble, though he appears the most decadent, of the major characters. The times being "wicked," he supports himself with obscene tableaux, though he is the only figure who understands and carries...