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
I love the Oscars, with all their pageantry and pomposity.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2024
Chandler was also good at puncturing Ross's occasional moments of pomposity.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2023
His first Gymnopedie of 1888, as well as sounding like a long, hot afternoon in the Midi after a liquid lunch, can be seen as a deliberate attempt to debunk pomposity and de-clutter music.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Rebellious colonists skewered British taxation policies, military blunders and parliamentary pomposities through plays, songs and cartoons that rallied others to the cause of independence and made mass mobilization fun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
“Love’s Labor’s Lost,” with or without the British “u,” is a very youthful, disjointed text, its thin thread of plot repeatedly cut by clowns, dullards, puns, pomposities and noodling that goes nowhere.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
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
In Great Britain public pomposities take up the strain and deliver large vague, foolish discourses on our intellectual decline.
From Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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