Word: pompously
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...border on the monotonous, but considering the grave problem of space, the blocking and direction is highly successful. Music Director Arthur Waldstein deserves large credit for the proper fast pace of the show and the amazing articulateness with which the songs are sung. However the overture is unbearably long, pompous, forced, and dull...
...estate. A visitor, the overworked local doctor (Astrov) wanders in and out of the household. Sonia loves the doctor, who is unaware of her as a woman. Vanya, who feels oppressed and trapped, shares with the doctor a love for Elena, who is quite miserable with her old and pompous husband. The doctor dreams of forestry and the future, yet sees his education and brightness sinking into the mud of Russian country life...
...clean the house and grow old and tiresome. To casual guests at a party or to the patron she hopes will one day claim her permanently, the geisha must be tireless and fascinating, solicitous and flattering, soothing and delightful, ready to make conversation, play a game or listen to pompous discourse at the whim of her customer. "A good geisha," said a member of Kyoto's geisha association last week, "is one who the guests say is good. Not only is the guest always right, but he must always go home knowing...
...improvement in the quality and the supply of news" from the palace, urged newspapers not only to handle news of the crown "with discretion," but to stop paying palace servants for "offensive trivia." The Mirror, world's biggest daily (circ. 4,649,696) promptly snapped back at the "pompous" council for talking "nonsense...
...excuse. "Every journalistic medium has high costs when an emergency occurs," said Gould. "It is part of the overhead that goes with the privilege of having access to the country's minds ... If TV is to be only a parlor carnival, let it say so and stop its pompous proclamations about being in the field of communications...