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pompous ['pɒmpәs]

a. 爱炫耀的, 虚夸的, 盛大的

pompous

[ adj ]

characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display

<adj.pert>

puffed up with vanity

<adj.all>

a grandiloquent and boastful manner

overblown oratory

a pompous speech

pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey

Pompous \Pomp"ous\, a. [F. pompeux, L. pomposus. See {Pomp}.]
1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur;
magnificent; as, a pompous procession.

2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as,
pompous manners; a pompous style. ``Pompous in high
presumption.'' --Chaucer.

he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress.
--Thackeray.
※ -- {Pom"ous*ly}, adv. -- {Pomp"ous*ness},
n.

He could play them straight if necessary but in comedy his natural dryness of delivery was exaggerated to the point where the character he was playing invited mockery as a pompous humbug.
Mr. Anderson took some pompous heat in Mendocino County, but such abuse was nothing compared with the bellowing from Iowa.
Who I Was, How I Became What I Am And Who The Hell Am I?' 'Because there's nothing pompous about me' he needlessly adds: in what may be the first pompous remark he has made in an hour of conversation.
Who I Was, How I Became What I Am And Who The Hell Am I?' 'Because there's nothing pompous about me' he needlessly adds: in what may be the first pompous remark he has made in an hour of conversation.
A Chicago Sun-Times critic, while calling Miller "hip" and "brilliant," said the persistent put-downs in his recently released video "make him sound like a pompous jerk by the tape's end." Even SNL has poked fun at Miller.
The church's ruin is a poignant symbol of post-war Berlin with its uncomfortable blend of pompous old and badly dated modern. Alas, the old 'Romanischen' was destroyed in the war.
One moves on to the other private apartments, which are handsome without being either pompous or suffocatingly royal.
We can do without the pompous drivel.
By the end of the play, Bamman has revealed the hurt as well as the humor in this pompous man's loss of a wife as well as his dignity.
I made a point of reading reviews by pompous critics, the types who drop as many allusions as punctuation will allow.
Unfortunately, it's also a voice that could easily turn pompous and self-righteous itself.
Jack Nicholson is a stitch in a small part as the reigning network anchor, a pompous man whose suits are just tight enough to make him seem puffed up.
But research by Eurotunnel and its advertising agency, DDB Needham, showed that with the problems completing the venture such an approach left people cold. 'We realised our ads could not be pompous.
Not for nothing did AT&T move out of its pompous Philip Johnson-designed Manhattan skyscraper when it was forced to revitalise itself.
Others said his old-fashioned, pompous rhetorical style wasn't in step with the times, didn't represent the Democrats well on television, and provided the opposition with an easy target.
Shaw holds his own better than most - indeed, after ploughing his pompous and detailed introductory exposition on the political merits of Napoleon, one is left in little doubt about whose ego is the biggest.
All this may sound desiccated, tedious, pompous, but reading Middleton is not like that at all.
True, he can also be bossy, insensitive and pompous, but these are not the reasons why Norah is leaving: it is the conventions of society that she is rebelling against rather than her husband who just happens to embody these restrictions.
Those Westerners who are in such a hurry to dismantle NATO's defenses and reap that imaginary "peace dividend" might do well to take the pompous Soviet marshal more seriously.
Movie as metaphor fills one with dread and this section is the most pompous and unconvincing.
"I'm going to look a little pompous now but I say, never, never stop working with your memory.
Added to this are excellent supporting performances by Bette Henritze as a mousy secretary and Paxton Whitehead as a pompous, befuddled lawyer, all adroitly directed by Michael Blakemore.
"If animals could speak, I think they'd tell us not to eat meat," Linda McCartney said. "We are such a pompous race of humans.

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