Word: pompousness
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...approval" and which she had intended to leave behind to be sent back to the shops. Chuckling, the Crown Princess and Prince Consort rummaged through their luggage, left the stuff with the apologetic French frontier guards and tucked back into the rumble the Prince's little surprise for pompous Dutch courtiers, a box of exploding cigars...
...pops its protagonist on the boards naked in all his pompous vanity, groping lubricity, childish craftiness, monetary venality and explosive blasphemy. Author McNally has studied the character of Wagner with an unblinded eye, makes full allowances for the poetic moral license commonly granted artists. The McNally-Lawson Wagner states the morality of an artist very clearly when he confesses that he has been mean, selfish, harsh, unfaithful, ungrateful; but, he says, he has learned his trade so well that no one in the world can teach him anything about music, and he has never allowed the most egregious hardships...
Examples show the many different styles worked out by the silversmiths. There is a superb porringer, or "caudle cup," dated 1600 and 1667. This is richly ornamented with large leaves and flowers, while the handles are made from grotesque heads. All this stands plainly for the pompous style of Charles...
Since then he has run Argentina's foreign affairs without brooking any interference from General Justo. Shrewd as well as pompous, he frequently works 20 hours, smokes 100 cigarets a day-often any brand he can borrow from his aides...
...that was literally impossible. Napoleon would hide from his guards, dress his servant in his clothing, start a panic, then shake his head gleefully over the stupidity of the English. Such small victories tightened the restrictions around him. His last struggle was his five-year fight with short, redheaded, pompous, shifty-eyed Sir Hudson Lowe, which ended with Napoleon's death and left Lowe disgraced and almost...