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From then the wolf walked with his shoulders open. As he became pompous, he thought of himself as the King of forest.

He proceeded to help me to write in such a way that I couldn't be torn apart by my more pompous scientific colleagues.

He wished me well and said he expected me to become a disgustingly enthusiastic, pompous old alumnus.

That, it is not too pompous to say, would in the long run be a marvellous advance in the human condition.

Words of a fool, you mean. The Horde will destroy the undead without your aid, human, or that of the pompous king.

How pompous some of the grand passages appeared; and how weak others were in which he thought he had expressed his full heart!

The pompous baroness of this land gets her power from her wealth, and that wealth comes from her magical Gem Casket.

As he became pompous , he thought of himself as the king of forest.

The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician.

If what you write is stiff and pompous that's how you'll be perceived. The reader has no other choice.

On the surface, Fudge would seem to be a kindly, blustering , somewhat pompous fellow who is essentially good-natured.

Convinced she had burned her boats, she told the employment agency that she had found the banker rude and pompous.

It's good occasionally to see a modest little church. Paris is full of pompous cathedrals.

He had made a good deal of money and had grown fat and pompous .

Now pompous words would sound bitter, but it's true that it was a privilege to know Adnan so closely.

Curated by Vittorio Sgarbi, an art historian better known as a pompous television personality, it is entitled "Art is not Cosa Nostra" .

He would be courageous calm and self assured , but neither pompous nor hypercritical .

The leader of the bank bowed in a pompous manner.

For instance the well-named Simplicio, a round pompous pudding of a man an old thinker. If Aristotle said it, it's true.

The EasyJet Customer Experience Team was admirably unmoved by such a pompous threat.

Whether you're writing or speaking, simple language helps you connect with your audience (and keeps you from sounding pompous).

Oliphant depicts him as a male turkey, a bird with a decidedly pompous manner.

If you're the head of a company and what you write is stiff and pompous.

Suggestive of the theater or of acting ; artificial , pompous , spectacular, or extravagantly histrionic : a theatrical display of grief .

During the presidential campaign, Gore was widely derided as both pompous and incapable of deciding what he actually stood for.

You most certainly did not, you pompous, paraffin-headed peabrain.

This pompous military display strikes, however, a discordant note in the framework of a festival devoted entirely to arts.

Dombey was rather bald, rather red, and though a handsome well-made man, too stern and pompous in appearance, to be prepossessing.

Secondly, his arrogant attitude, fiery temper and pompous nature can become an obstacle in his professional and personal relationships.

Believing that he was now invincible, Hiranyakshipu soon became pompous and ordered all his people to worship only him.

"Formal writing" does not imply the use of pretentious language, which can be characterized as stilted or pompous or stiff.

As well as officialdom, its targets included computer-security and online-gaming companies regarded as pompous, complacent or hypocritical.

The pompous lecturer is strutting back and forth across the stage.

Life is not composed by aphorism , how can we decorate it with pompous cliches? I send you my most sincere greeting in silence .

But in the Republican view, Obama's new proposals but their consistent adherence to the "big government" policy put more pompous.

Her father, Sir John Durham, was a large landowner in the western division of the county; a pompous gentleman.

At the student union a conceited and pompous old visitor was boring a group of apprentices with his unasked for advice.

You're not the useless, whiny, stuck-up, pompous, big girl's blouse I thought.

Though somewhat pompous, it is short and to the point.

How does a pompous, cocky jackass like you always have women all over him?

The street was full of coaches. Pompous door men In immense coats, shIny brass belts and buttons, waited In front of expensive sales rooms.

Beginning writers adopt a pompous tone that doesn't sound anything like the way they speak.

She mouthed her words in speaking, her voice was deep, its inflections very pompous, very dogmatical-very intolerable, in short.

Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow.

He saw behind his patient's pompous manner and arrogant pride an anxiety that he could not dispel .

Being a little humble is important to show you are not pompous. Don't boast about how you are the best.

Bragg was very pompous and disagreeable, perhaps ashamed, perhaps anxious to get rid of the Indian lady.

You could become pompous or mystical when you are in over your head.

In a chapter he regards Edward Gibbon and Samuel Johnson's style as pompous.

The wedding dresses should reflect the pompous mood of the occasion.

Though I have no pompous greeting, I presnet you with my only true heart, hope you can treasure it. Happy Birthday!

The pompous lecturer is strutting ago or toth over the stage.

How can such pompous people be in charge of moderating our God complex?

The Taurus woman, in turn, must accept that her partner's charming and pompous and not get annoyed by it.

One day, India's widely disliked, pompous foreign minister, the acerbic V.

" Shut up , " he told himself. "You're getting awfully pompous. "

Back then it seemed a forgivably pompous title for the pompous thoughts of management gurus.

Hi! It's you. Those pompous guys. Try to appear more important than you are.

abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing.

He's a real gentleman, if a little pompous at times.

Pompous or bombastic speech or expression.

Pompous officials who enjoy giving orders.

Actually, the pompous view, all lets me want to vomit, I thought, this is called the abandonment.

His prose is larded with pompous expressions.

Joan: I sound like a pompous ass.

Seated in a pompous armchair in that grand office was Alvaro Siza.

He bowed to the lady in a pompous manner.

He had the trick of making her pompous.

He spoke with pompous exactitude.

That woman gets my goat, I can't stand those pompous bores.

He is a good man underneath his pompous appearance.

Mr Whatsisname, the pompous one.

For We #1, the pompous we of the executive, no new book is needed.

In fact, when things go your way, you should be modest rather than pompous.

He's just full of wind, the pompous fool!

Reimu: I don't know why you built this pompous castle. . .

How can you tolerate that pompous idiot?

Slote thought Van Winaker a pompous nuisance.

Throw in some good old-fashioned pompous service and you have most people's idea of dining hell.

When we play sports we almost always keep score, this is not pompous. This is friendly competition and it is healthy.

self-absorbed Eg. Serena, I know you like him, but as your friend, Julian is the most self-absorbed, pompous person I've ever met.

Bombast (n. ): talk or writing that sounds grand or important but has little meaning; pompous language

Difficult or pompous language use by specialists; jargon

Bombastic marked by or given to bombast : POMPOUS, OVERBLOWN

To declare in a pompous manner; declaim

bow in a pompous manner

This is a pompous, badly acted film, full of absurd anachronisms and