| Some visions are so audacious, they can be expressed only as ironic jokes, lest the speaker be accused of pomposity or megalomania. |
| Not just because she swears a lot, holds strident political views or gossips freely about the pomposity of certain Scottish theatre critics. |
| Even several people I know who generally share his world view told me they found his strutting pomposity almost unbearable this year. |
| We knew, though, that we were a minority swimming against a powerful tide of patriotic pomposity. |
| In private, Sir David is much less buttoned up than he seems in public, his reputation for arrogance and pomposity unduly harsh. |
| The first theme, a lickety-split series of parallel chords hopping up the keyboard, sounds like the giddy mockery of an older person's pomposity. |
