Word: pompousness
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...each recipient made the preceeding far mere impressive than the antiquated ceremonial still followed at our University As president Eliot named each of the new Doctors, he rose in his seat and bowed in acknowledgement, so that some 40 degrees were conferred in 20 minutes without the aid of pompous Latin compliments...
...Conversion;" a convict suit labeled "Livery of Seizer," and a bargain between a poco and an aborigine, representing the "Ancient Action for a Suit." A fourth showed a gentleman being killed vigorously in "Joint Action; "on the reverse an aged darkey was made to illustrate "Black-Male," and a pompous military man, a "Grand Sergeant." A fifth bore on one side two apple trees, a man standing beneath, and in the second scene the apple which hung prominent from the tree is gone. These touching scenes are labeled respectively 'Malum Prohibitum" and "Malum in Se." On the reverse of this...
...Very fair, but the author parades the parody a little too much, and the last line is a little too pompous...
...need for such a journal as he seeks to establish, is not the editor, from a literary point of view, wholly unfit for his position? He is understood to have the support and approbation of the President and Faculty, yet could even its youngest member read the pompous prospectus without blushing for his representative...
...Good evening, Mr. -," he exclaimed in a pompous way, "I am exceedingly delighted to welcome you to my humble apartment. It gives me pleasure, that I cannot express with sufficient adequacy, to answer you in the affirmative...