Word: pompousness
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...there are some brilliant spots along the drab, flat thread. It's fun to have a chuckle at pompous, helpless royalty a is "Jubilee," but nobody gets very excited over royalty now-a-days. It's fun to pursue the intricacies of the barter system; to see a man pay for a meal with a chicken; get two chicks and an egg an change; flip the egg to the waiter for a tip. It's positively delightful to see a Gallic jibe at our own despot: to see all the new hats tossed into the river to improve...
This blunder is even more significant as one of a series. With the officious and unsympathetic air of a pompous egotist, he has constantly terrorized undergraduates suspected of misdemeanors, when human treatment might have elicited accurate information and prevented humiliation and error. We are forced to conclude that Colonel Apted's tenure of office has been detrimental to the best interests of the College and recommend his immediate dismissal on grounds of incompetence...
...meetings themselves must be organized in as spectacular, yet intelligent, a way as possible, so that after luring great multitudes to come, they will get the meaning and importance of the occasion. The speeches must be more than pompous self-congratulation...
...Matthiessen deserves the highest praise for his daring in putting out an interesting, non-pompous, non-pretensions, non-academic work on a current, controversial issue...
...First oil to make the lobby was a portrait of Henry Clay by Giuseppe Fagnani. Of the 45 Speakers that the House has had, 39, in heavy ormolu frames, are there now. Of these only three are out of the ordinary: 1) the first Speaker of the House, bewigged, pompous Frederick Muhlenberg, copied by Samuel B. Waugh from an earlier portrait by Joseph Wright; 2) Champ Clark, best-known Speaker, by Boris Gordon; 3) Thomas B. Reed, which happened to be painted by John Singer Sargent. By custom, the family of the Speaker may suggest artists for the portrait...