Word: pompousness
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...starts to browse. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, prolific writer about his rambles in the Far East, has struck off 366 little devotional essays on American liberty for the "common man's" year (which seems always to be leap year). Author Douglas almost immediately slogs down in pompous, naive paragraphs about public libraries, workmen's compensation, irrigation. Notwithstanding a few well-phrased obiter dicta on civil rights, he simply does not have the Alma-knack...
...murder him in his sleep and eat him. The savage and the civilized man have a long and uneasy road before they reach the haven of friendship. Like Defoe's original work, the movie is a neat mixture of moralizing and adventure, but, fortunately, the moralizing is never pompous or the adventuring ever dull...
...senators are right when they describe themselves as plain and simple sons of the people, the people are a frighteningly pompous lot. During the current hearings of the Mundt (nee McCarthy) Sub-Committee, Senators have wrapped themselves in shrouds of verbiage, valiantly shunning simple phrases...
...first session, Senator Mundt set a properly pompous keynote by asking the spectators to "refrain from any demonstrations of approval or disapprobation." his colleagues rapidly followed suit, allowing nothing, including rules of syntax, to interfere with their selections of elegant variations and high-blown pariphrases. One Senator asked, to find out who had begun some action, "Would you state that that was motivated from the Senator's (McCarthy) end of the line...
...playwrights have riddled their cartoonist with his own pompous, high-sounding clichés and then left him bleeding on their verbal barbed wire. King of Hearts boasts some of the funniest dialogue of the season and some fast punches to all the more inflated regions of the human anatomy. It also boasts-thanks to Walter F. Kerr's direction and the acting of a superior cast-a lively production...