Word: pompously
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Although it sounds like the name of a new and slightly pompous magazine, events is in fact a sermon: the wages of sexual indulgence are boredom, anxiety and spiritual sterility...
...rarely registered more than 30% approval in the polls. "Despite all the publicity for him," a leading Tory complains, "he still doesn't get across, and he won't get anywhere until he learns to join the human race." Wilson, 54, may strike many Britons as occasionally pompous, but Heath too often comes across as downright prissy; he nearly blushed purple the other day when two twentyish birds stopped him on a street to ask what he intended to do about the exorbitant price of "panty tights." His hobbies are playing classics on the organ, and sailing...
...Bone. The book's main charm, and it is considerable, is the character of Jenny. She is brash, forthright and funny. When OIlie gets pompous she calls him "Preppie." When he reaches for a martyr's mantle, she points out that he is probably in love with her "negative social status." Says Segal: "I call it to-the-bone truth. She sees through him, as true love does...
...large cast, only Dana Ferry as Hermione's lady and Sarah Stearns as Perdita match Leigh Wood's exceptional performance. Carol Potter as Hermione was extremely attractive but a bit pompous, Jason Kanter's inspired portrayal of Autoclycus made the pastoral segments less dull. The rest of the company showed admirable enthusiasm...
...Anthony Zerbe). Jones discards his cowardice and sues for divorce-a maneuver designed to expose the sinners and, incidentally, the hypocrisy of the state of Tennessee. Jones' "liberation" is his murder, but along the way he frees his brethren and damns the Old South, as presented by his pompous white lawyer Lee J. Cobb...