Word: pompously
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...Japanese, there is probably a lesson in all these debacles about not + getting stuck on labels. But for Americans, there is also a cautionary tale in drawing pompous conclusions about the nation's economic security when a few Japanese companies invest in premier American properties. When the Japanese did just that in the late 1980s, investment banker Felix Rohatyn wrote, "What is at stake is not only the loss of our position as the leader of the Western democracies, but the loss of our independence of action both in economic and in foreign policy." Turns out it was just about...
...support Santorum because he is cutting budget spending," said Leo G. Polanowski '98 of Elizabethtown, Penn. "I met Wofford once and he was kind of pompous...
...sports column, Oct. 13, 1994). "The crowd stinks," and "the fans are...LAME" are some of the first phrases that jumped out at me when I read the article. Given that 712,880 people attended Saturday's tough loss to Cornell," wouldn't you consider it a bit pompous for one newspaper columnist to call them "LAME...
...first week here, Valdes says, he "sawthe teacher acting pompous...
...first week here, Valdes says, he "sawthe teacher acting pompous...