Word: pompousness
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Because of his years of American training in G.M.'s Opel, Nordhoff did not wear the pompous, punctilious air of German industry's traditional Herr Generaldirektor. He spent hours on the production line, talking to workers and explaining what he was trying to do. When he arrived, only 700 cars a month were being built, and nobody had the faintest idea how much they actually cost. Nordhoff installed a rigid cost-accounting system...
...humility the vice presidency requires. He was not too dignified to pose on the Capitol steps wearing a World War I German helmet. After Woodrow Wilson had a stroke with 17 months of his term left, Marshall refused to consider taking over the presidency. Bored by a pompous Senate speech about what the nation needed, Marshall turned to a clerk, muttered: "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar." Marshall is remembered with affection largely for this remark and for saying that the condition of a Vice President is like that of a man in "a cataleptic...
With the usual pompous introduction praising the great, new medium CinemaScope, Twentieth Century-Fox plunges Beneath the 12-Mile Reef. It seems like the longest dive in motion picture history, and when everyone including the fish come up for air several hours later, there is little doubt that the CinemaScope millennium has not quite arrived...
...view of the war, e.g.. his sketch of General Andrew Porter. De Joinville was chatting with a group of officers one afternoon when he saw the general crossing the parade ground. He whipped out his pencil, captured the pomposity of the potbellied commander astride an equally pompous, arch-necked mount...
...population decides to buy the line and operate it themselves. Since the train provides a convivial place to drink before the doors to the town pub officially swing, an affluent lush happily furnishes the money for the project. Intrigue follows in the form of nefarious busline operators and a pompous London transportation official. However, a sentimental cleric, who gets the town behind him by pointing out the local motive for having the railroad, provides sufficient opposition...