Word: pompously
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...Some say that I’m a pompous creep / Somehow I don’t lose that much sleep / Why bother with false modesty? / Harvard’s the perfect place for me.”Harvard alumni are often inspired by their undergraduate years, but perhaps none thus far have been able to express these experiences as well as “Legally Blonde: The Musical” co-composer and co-lyricist Laurence C. O’Keefe ’91. “At Harvard, I met high-powered, fascinating people who were utter dicks...
...detail of Byzantine art can sometimes seem rudimentary, it's not because the empire was uncultivated or primitive. For many years considered by Western intellectuals to be pompous and decadent - Voltaire called it a "worthless repertory of declamations and miracles" - the Byzantine Empire is now seen by historians as a crucial bridge connecting antiquity to the Renaissance, as the keeper of the sacred flame of classical learning through the so-called Dark Ages. It was also a melting pot of influences. Byzantines, who were devout Christians, considered themselves the inheritors of the Roman Empire, despite the fact that they spoke...
...IndianapolisI don't think the two of them would get along, because in [writer David] Mamet's world, human beings really behave like animals. They slaughter each other and eat each other and hunt each other and so forth. That's the opposite, I think, of Donaghy, because as pompous as he is, he avoids conflict as much as possible...
...Salvadoran boyfriend in what was no doubt an appropriately austere ceremony. In the other, considerably more rambunctious celebration, an actress playing Leticia arrived at the wedding scene in a convertible driven by a Moorish guard (complete with requisite fez). Greeted with fascist salutes and the extravagant leering of a pompous archbishop, the lovely bride was given away by the familiarly paunchy figure of the caudillo himself, "resurrected" for the occasion by a local comedic theater troupe...
...made his feelings about the city clear, first in verse when he wrote a stanza that read "Let's go down to the cities to kill the scumbags," and later when he decamped to the hills around Sarajevo to oversee the shelling of its civilians. In one typically pompous display, he unveiled to a room of sycophants a Styrofoam mock-up of a "New Sarajevo" that he said would rise from the muddy village of Pale that served as his wartime headquarters...