Word: pompousness
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...ranking designer with his creation of the hobble skirt, later blossomed out as playwright, painter, actor, coiffeur (creator of bobbed hair). Dressmaker to royalty, he came to London in 1912 at the invitation of Margot Asquith, gave a spring showing at No. 10 Downing St. Portly, pompous, dark-skinned Couturier Poiret was an autocratic extrovert, lived like an Oriental potentate in a Paris house bedecked with ibises, parrots, monkeys, half-naked Negro guards. In 1929 he went bankrupt, for a time was a Paris department-store designer at $4 a dress, finally went on the dole...
Half a century ago a pompous, patrician French Army officer, Mercier du Paty de Clam, played a key role in the historic plot against Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Emile Zola's flaming J'Accuse! began "I accuse Colonel du Paty de Clam of having been the diabolical agent...
...recent months Field had listened less to Evans and more to outsiders who wanted the Sun to get in there and scrap with Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's archconservative Tribune. Fortnight ago, after Evans' financial columnist, pompous Philip S. Hanna, had labeled the federal ballot for soldiers "a trick to dodge the Constitution," Hanna was summarily fired by Field...
...When it comes to rendering the dignity and sobriety of [Spanish] speech, Hemingway invents an artificial and pompous English...
...Tregaskis' best-selling war book, and a straightforward, exciting picture. The Marines are first shown singing, loafing, ribbing each other aboard ship, responding quietly to the ground swell of their anticipation and their ignorance, taking very lightly (in a fine, honest scene) the reading-aloud of the rather pompous order which first tells them where they are going. These shipboard scenes and those in which the Marines land, find no enemy, and only slowly begin to learn about Jap snipers, are among the most real in the picture...