Word: pompousness
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...they attribute the glamor of the varsity letter to some intrinsic quality rather than to the strenuous efforts of generations of athletes. Their fatuous grinding away for "recognition" has for its goal an impossible flaunting of decorations, while the "big" man is invariably the least ostentatious. But the small pompous individual lusts to be clad in titles, honors, and ceremonies, and his narrowness prevents his seeing that "Art for art's sake" is the only formula for achievement...
...Voice (with suppressed passion but pompous withal) Look here, I'm a member of Parliament. I've been...
...outstanding conception of the Cantabrigian student, in the popular mind, is a snobbish, and pompous individual, scion of a bloated meat-packer, correctly dressed and redressed for every occasion, insensible to the lure of the classic fount, but pursuing the social whirl in liveried equipage. This is all wrong...
...play, translated from Spanish in- to Italian, in which language it will be given entirely, has never before been produced in this country. The plot opens in the home of Dr. Spinosi, a pompous professor of Philosophy who, has founded at the provincial village of Villatriste an "Academy" devoted to research of a ponderous and complicated nature...
...faun, a gentleman gambler and a barbaric king, was quite at his best last night as a bishop of the Anglican Church. Until recently, the dramatic tradition of the English stage has tacitly and unalterably ordained that a clergyman of that religious body should invariably be a pompous and platitudinous ass. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Faversham, being men of the world and not mere dramatists, know better; and the gentle, witty, tolerant prelate of Mr. Shaw's fancy and Mr. Faversham's creation is, or should be, one of the really great figures of our contemporary drama. The actor...