Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frustrated theater owners, Firmin and Andre, respectively. Carlotta, played by Kelly Ellenwood, makes and excellent egotistical prima donna. However, in this particular production, she seems more pitiful and needy than she does vicious and greedy. Her companion, Piangi (Stefano Fucile), possesses both a self-esteem and a voice pompous enough to match hers. Hating the two of them is still enjoyable, but not exactly a pleasure...
...palace, with its narrow, dated code of royal behavior. As has been pointed out many times, she was, if anything, a throwback to the Queen Mother, with her common touch and effortless rapport with ordinary people. When senior courtiers tried to limit Diana or downgrade her, they just looked pompous...
...Pompous, New York Times reading, out of touch, excessively talented, soon to be cuff-link wearing, over-achievers. If you wander out of the capsule of academia, you'll find that's what a lot of people think about Harvard students...
...creating a student body with diverse talents, interests and backgrounds, it retains a student body that shares a common commitment to excellence. Such a seemingly noble commitment ironically provides the basis for today's outside view of Harvard students as talented, goal-oriented, future leaders marred by their pompous attitude...
...sometimes he forgot who he had become. Under pressure he reverted to the pompous thug of late-night cable, the backbencher lobbing grenades on C-SPAN about sick Democrats who were enemies of normal Americans. He was new on the job. And the job, as he reshaped it, was new too. He didn't realize his every remark would now be measured for maturity, not ferocity. He didn't realize that once a battle is won, it's time to move graciously to the peace table. "I keep forgetting that all the ground rules have changed,'' he told Time last...