Word: pompousness
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...Washington Declaration (see next page), politically sophisticated Britons assumed that the text was the work of moralizing Americans. A British Foreign Office official read it. and explained that the declaration was addressed to Asians and Africans: "A simple reminder for simple-minded people." Journalist Randolph Churchill called it "pompous...
...Southerner, and I say Judge Brady, author of Black Monday [Dec. 12], is for the birds, and is a pompous windbag to boot. It is not the N.A.A.C.P. which we true Southerners, both white and black, have to fear but men like Brady, whose statements make us sound like a bunch of "hold my magnolia, while I beat my slave" fools...
...scrappy, pug-nosed man from Utah took over as editor. His name, Bernard DeVoto, soon became a synonym for the atrabilious type of crusader who seems perpetually to be throwing a tantrum. Sinclair Lewis, one of his early targets, called him "a tedious and egotistical fool . . . a pompous and boresome liar." "What," asked Critic Edmund Wilson, "is Mr. DeVoto's real grievance . . . this continual boiling up about other people's wild statements which stimulates him to even wilder statements...
...those who struggle through the editorial to discover what the possibility amounts to, it becomes clear that perhaps a prerequisite to a point of view should be clarity of expression. Unfortunately, a good deal of confusion, and indeed ill will, is inspired by pompous ambiguity. Although the editorial could be more clearly expressed, this is not to say that some worthwhile ideas are not detectable. In fact these ideas, as well as the rest of the material in the current issue, go a long way toward answering two important questions that were posed at the review's appearance: 1) whether...
...Saturdays when there were Big Doings. Since then the News, except for continually running fake pictures of Crime editors, has barely done enough to justify publishing five days of the week. In a number of articles they have, in effect, invited us to analyse them in return, a pompous task we feel incapable of doing, naturally, without mounting the oratorial pedestal...