Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these references would seem rather a heavy load for small clay objects to carry, but one of the virtues of Price's work is that it never seems pompous and only rarely trivial. Some of the time, it mocks itself. Certain Prices look like exquisitely glazed versions of stuff you would want to scrape off your boot. And what about Wart Cup, 1968, for a title? One can't claim too much for his cups, which is a relief in a culture that tends to claim far too much for its paintings, but the whole show in Minneapolis is infused...
ARTICLE 99. Noble doctors have to break the rules at a veterans' hospital that is threatened by low funding and pompous bureaucracy. A vigorous cast, led by Ray Liotta and Kiefer Sutherland, pushes all the proper buttons for righteous melodrama. It's just that this old Hollywood machine doesn't work anymore...
...freedom chaos?"--they call on the "audience" for help. To their rescue comes Doris Levine, a blonde, boppy philosophy student from Wellesley, played with convincing ditziness by Isabelle Hurtubise. In the course of the action other fatuous students are called to the stage: Lorenzo Miller (Arzhang Kamarei), the pompous playwright, Trichinosis (Joel Pulliam), another Greek who invents the ridiculous deus ex machina to save the play and a regal but spacy Queen (Elizabeth Price) who strolls in with a roast beef sandwich. Woody Allen himself even phones in a few times to give advice to his characters...
...Metcalf have easier roles to play and they perform them well. Roth's Nina shimmers with effervescence; it is easy to understand Trigorin's attraction. Metcalf plays Trigorin with Jimmy Stewart lankiness, making the role of the famous writer more self-effacing than usual. Trigorin traditionally comes across as pompous rather than disillusioned, as he is here; while an unusual choice, it is not necessarily...
...really like Homer a lot. I likethe classics. I think there's a need forreconstruction in poetry. I've read the Odysseythree times, three different translations. A lotof people who read this are thinking, god thisguy's pompous...I like the Greeks a lot. I love toread cool literature. That's my favorite chore, toread arcane, abstract tomes...