Word: pompousness
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...often emphasized that the readjustment of some of the incidental tenets of our religion to meet the progress of modern science need not, and does not impair the fundamental structure of our faith. The only iconoclastic result of this expedition will be to destroy permanently the influence of those pompous and inaccurate historiasters of the last century who have falsified the sequence and meaning of past events by their lack of scientific method, their reliance on traditional literature and their wilful neglect of contemporary documents and archaeological evidence. Their day, or rather, their night is over; for the literary dilletante...
...faults were grave and they were faults of both mood and tense. In his childhood, he had suffered an incurable injury to his back which doubtless accounted for much of his irascibility. On the other hand, he was often tactless to a degree, pompous in his bearing, quick to give and take offense and often almost boorish in his treatment of inferiors. His passion was imperialism and no toe, no matter to whom it belonged, escaped his heel if its owner got in the way of his policy. Few men were a match for him in withering invective; none surpassed...
Tenor Taucher has, it is true, never been the favorite of Metropolitan goers. His acting has been characterized as rococo, his singing as pompous. Yet, in last week's performance, he was singing, acting, better than ever before. The great house warmed to him, he took many curtain calls. In the last act, there was a change of scene in which the stage, masked only by volutes of steam, was transformed from "a wild region at the foot of a rocky mountain" to "the summit of the Valkyries' rock." Taucher, about to make his exit from the former...
...didn't know the answer to that, so I looked at him puzzled for a while, then I thought of it. Td rather have pyjamas,' I told him, and he went away." The Irish literary school has its great men: soft-voiced, indefinite Yeats, grandiose and pompous Dunsany, brittle and quarrelsome Shaw, half-mad and experimenting Joyce; but here is a soul that springs from the folkways of the world, to whom all the humdrum affairs of life take on the gold cloaks and the swords of legendry, who sees elves dancing the Woolworth Tower and a mystical...
Thus the Press insists on flooding the public with news about the inauguration, which is a decadent and dying institution, as is shown by its history and deserves a much less pompous and ceremonial place than it now holds...