Word: pompousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...previously envisioned Senator Byrd as a pompous know-it-all seeking to throw a monkey wrench into this Administration's or any administration's legislative hopes...
...seems likely that the Spoleto show will have a lasting effect. It has proved once and for all to Italians that there is something more interesting to look at in the way of outdoor sculpture than the pompous equestrian statues of Victor Emmanuel II, which clutter up many of their piazzas. The naked use of common industrial methods to produce sculpture has stripped away much of the mystery of the craft, has humanized what had been before a less than generally appreciated art form. Last week an ironmonger who had been hired to fasten steel straps around the bases...
...with so great a gift that Mary Cassatt once said, "He could have taught stones to draw correctly." Though he did not convert the young Paul Cezanne to impressionism, he was responsible for the perception with which Cezanne observed nature, and for his devotion to inner construction. When a pompous friend, expecting him to laugh, took him to an exhibition of Henri Rousseau, Pissarro astonished the gallery by praising the primitive warmly. It was Pissarro who aided Gauguin after he gave up the Bourse for a fulltime career in art, and it was Pissarro who taught the young Van Gogh...
...more troubling question is this: What did Nabokov have in mind when he wrote the book? Everything in it-and particularly the wiry elegance of the poem itself -denies the possibility that it is merely aimless entertainment. And although parts of the book are wickedly satirical of pompous emigres and academic wooden-heads, there seems to be no main target for the satire...
Nevertheless, Kotin did play with fine tone, and miraculously avoided the hornists' occupational hazard: blurping. Schenck subordinated the orchestra nicely when it accompanied, so that the out-of-tune strings were not too painful. He brought the concerto to an appropriately pompous close...