Word: pompously
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...Quai d'Anjou. There, in a bare attic studio, using crayons until they were so worn that he could no longer hold them, and whistling the latest music-hall tunes, Daumier turned out lithographs of arrogant aristocrats, greedy landlords, sour-faced men and nagging wives, sinister lawyers and pompous judges. In one scene, a judge says to a half-starved prisoner: "So you were hungry; that's no reason for stealing. I'm hungry too-nearly every day. But I don't steal...
...English rather than Latin and wonder why we have not instead rioted about things that matter. Perhaps it is because there are diplomas that we riot about diplomas; perhaps it is because there is commencement that things that matter are deferred. We learn, we mark with pompous festival the end of learning, and then we do. And both the character of our learning and the character of our careers reflect our acceptance of this categorization of which diplomas and commencement are our symbol...
...father's tactics, but comes to hate his parishioners as much as he does his father, and dies of a hemorrhaging ulcer. Another son cravenly sponges off the old man. The eldest daughter becomes Charlie's spinster slave, while a spunkier daughter, Helen, marries a pompous doctor just to escape from the house...
...mechanical rules. Use the passive voice whenever possible, keep sentences and paragraphs long, verbs neutral and even drab, and nouns abstract. Load your sentences up with these abstract nouns until they're just about ready to break. But above all, of course, keep the tone dry and pompous...
Sternberg's task was to build Rath's character and then to destroy it. Two brief classroom sequences establish him as an orderly and pompous martinet. In both scenes, Janning strides into the room, sits down and blows his nose into a carefully folded handkerchief as if the whole process were a ritual allowed no deviation from a prescribed pattern...