Word: pompousness
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...could see the Harvard's now, wandering about New Haven, trying to crash a St. Anthony's formal. Strange, mused Vag, how he and his friends had always been so friendly away from Cambridge and when in New Haven complained because the Elis were so cold and pompous. They didn't even let Vag into Skull and Bones. Yalies were like that...
Only Richard Mayer as the doctor and Edward Golden, playing Belcredi, fall below the general high level of acting. Mayer seemed confused about the proper way to portray a fumbling, pompous psychiatrist and decided to mouth his words and wave his hands--the wrong choice for any role. Golden, to the contrary, had two perfectly adequate portrayals at his command. Unable to decide between them, he used both, thus destroying the merits of each. Had he stuck to his first inclination to show Belcredi as a serious man working hard at a studied foppery he would have succeeded admirably...
...twenty-four, James Boswell was startlingly pompous. He did, of course, have one of the beat proto types in England to study and, since Boswell is over adaptable, the blame might be all laid to Dr. Johnson. In this third volume of Boswell's journals, the Scot's pomposity has increased with his growing opinion of his own abilities...
When The Seven Deadly Sins first came to this country, some critics objected to Gluttony as mere filth. True, the story is only the retelling of a bawdy tale, but it is done so skilfully as to be delightful. Henri Vidal is riotously pompous as the traveling salesman who passes up a chance to sleep with a beautiful farmer's wife for a piece of cheesecake...
...dialogue, the cast can be praised for just keeping the audience in the theatre until the final curtain. Roger Livesey and Ursula Jeans, as the distraught parents, are well together; his gruff and her grace are both engaging. Melville Cooper is excellent in the last scene when his stock, pompous headmaster reveals his individuality...