Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finally getting to bed, Carter rose early the next morning for his session with Hua-15 minutes alone, an hour accompanied by aides. The meeting proved to be informal and spontaneous. Hua impressed the Americans as witty and candid. At one point, while his interpreter was droning through a pompous English translation of the Chinese official line, the Premier grinned broadly at Carter. Later, Hua used an American cliché to put down Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who has accepted $1.6 billion in Soviet aid in exchange for Indian recognition of the Soviet-backed puppet regime in Cambodia...
...humor is wry and derisive. Explains Harry Reasoner, a longtime colleague at CBS: "Andy sees something portentous or pompous and puts a pin in it." Not long ago, he journeyed to Pottstown, Pa., in search of Mrs. Smith of Mrs. Smith's Pies; there was no Mrs. Smith, he discovered, only the executives of Kellogg's. On another occasion, a seductive sales pitch set him to wondering. "Save $1,253 on a Saab," he mused. "I mean, if you bought eight or ten Saabs a year, you can save enough to buy a Mercedes...
...lack of confidence about writing basic memos and letters. "They hate to be straightforward or direct," says George Murphy, one of the Villanova University English professors who handle the course. Says Bonnie Perry, a Sun education director: "Their idea of what constitutes good writing is something that is excessively pompous and stilted. They go on and on, never getting to the point...
...pompous, as many conductors are," Sally Rubin '83, who performed a flute solo in the concert, said yesterday. She added that he was very demanding and had high standards, but that he was also patient with the non-professional musicians...
...strident, Sears had made him more monotonous. Says Nofziger: "Reagan always was a slow learner. He just had to be hit by a two-by-four one more time. He woke up to the fact that he was not running his own campaign. He realized that Sears is cocky, pompous and arrogant...