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pomposity [pɒm'pɒsiti]

n. 炫耀

pomposity

[ noun ]
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
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Pomposity \Pom*pos"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Pomposities}.
The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness.
--Thackeray.

The best Oscar shows have been emceed by Will Rogers, Bob Hope, Johnny Carson and other funnymen who provided continuity as well as a leavening of pomposity.
But the pomposity of the piece, joined with a gaggle of lightweight Yankee Doodleisms (from Virgil Thomson, Victor Herbert and John Philip Sousa, among others), turns the estimable orchestra and its superb conductor into a Fourth of July picnic band.
Like him, many of them have learnt to speak plain English, without pomposity.
A sampling: "Magic is the power that strips even the masks that separate us," he intones in a thin voice that's not suited for pomposity.
And the value of solemnity is overrated because it often induces in people feelings of pomposity, rigidity and a corresponding loss of ordinary human warmth and easy, open communication.

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