pomposity
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Mr. James, making his Tanglewood and BSO debuts, lent his all-important part tangible seriousness without pomposity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
At this point the reader may wonder why I should even bother to rebuke George Will; in his outmoded pomposity, he makes almost too easy a target.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
"You're pricking pomposity and you're exposing hypocrisy. That's the point of satire."
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2025
I love the Oscars, with all their pageantry and pomposity.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2024
Read English news, yes, and English sport, politics and pomposity, but in future keep the things that hurt to myself alone.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
A humorist and actor, his folksy delivery artfully deflated politicians and pomposities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025
From time to time, Mr. Leo devoted his column to skewering the conventions and pomposities of journalistic prose.
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022
In the Persia of the time, you couldn’t speak or write about the Shah openly, so he called him Marjoribanks, a silly name to make fun of pomposities.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2013
And Anika Noni Rose seemed to have a better handle on the pomposities of Wendy Scott-Carr.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2011
He was dwarfed and dumb and a little awed, but that insignificance freed him from the pomposities of being Mr. George F. Babbitt of Zenith; saddened and freed his heart.
From Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
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