Word: pompousness
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...many jokers wild in Absalom, Absalom! that most readers will feel that the cards have been hopelessly stacked against them. It is the strangest, longest, least readable, most infuriating and yet in some respects the most impressive novel that William Faulkner has written. At first glance it is so pompous in its language and so ridiculous in its theme that readers accustomed to honest dealing will call at once for a new hand. Its action takes place simultaneously on three levels, and although Author Faulkner includes a map, a chronology and a cast of characters to help keep the sequences...
After twelve years on the Baltimore Sun, which opposes both Roosevelt and Landon, Edmund Duffy is disposed to regard politics as a joke. This year he has drawn a wry-mouthed Franklin Roosevelt and a pompous, silk-hatted GOP with equal indifference, saved his enthusiasm for the cause of Peace...
...Green Table remains the best of the Jooss ballets, wears well as a masterpiece. In it ten of the dancers mime as diplomats, first suave, later pompous, finally furious. With foolish toy pistols they start the war through which Death stalks, imperiously destroying soldiers and their womenfolk, pecking fatally at a cocky little profiteer, sparing only the diplomats, inscrutably masked, back at the green table again making more trouble...
Napoleon makes his harassed but pompous jailer, Sir Hudson Lowe (Percy Waram), wait for an interview, refuses finally to see him at all. At a birthday dinner, he wonders if he had not better died after one of his victories. The ensuing discussion is interrupted by an earthquake...
...Gangs) to read the manuscripts and check on the accuracy of McArthur's grim accounts. The resulting collaboration plainly shows the joints and seams of each author's contribution, with McArthur presumably providing the harsh dialog, the accounts of Gorbols' uncivilized ways, with Long interspersing pompous, horrified comments as the story unwinds...