He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away. |
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Now I slur my words and mangle the language with the best of them, though people close to me do still tease me for my tendency towards pomposity. |
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This ridiculous sounding direct translation of a toiletry-product seemed to perfectly sum up the buffoonery and pomposity of the French. |
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With his reputation for bluster and pomposity, the tall poppy was levelled in his near-death head-on on a West Australian highway. |
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Even several people I know who generally share his world view told me they found his strutting pomposity almost unbearable this year. |
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Unfortunately it's weighted down with accretion upon accretion of utterly self-indulgent pomposity. |
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It helps defuse the self-serving pomposity of much of the journalistic clerisy. |
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The pomposity and ostentation of the rich seems to heighten the sense of our ultimate worthlessness. |
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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. |
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We knew, though, that we were a minority swimming against a powerful tide of patriotic pomposity. |
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In private, Sir David is much less buttoned up than he seems in public, his reputation for arrogance and pomposity unduly harsh. |
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We need a disposal service for our collective neuroses, something to clear away the rubbish of our self-regard and pomposity. |
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Now that I've said that, allow me to apologize for the grandiloquence and pomposity of that preceding paragraph. |
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He drew astonished gasps from the audience and co-panellists alike for the fatuity and pomposity of his contributions. |
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Some visions are so audacious, they can be expressed only as ironic jokes, lest the speaker be accused of pomposity or megalomania. |
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Not just because she swears a lot, holds strident political views or gossips freely about the pomposity of certain Scottish theatre critics. |
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It was typical of a Queen who, in her own words, thoroughly disliked pomposity and ritual deference. |
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Self-importance and pomposity aren't in Ananova's emotional toolkit. |
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The idea that jazz has become a catchword for pomposity is painful for those of us who care deeply about this music. |
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Noel Coward's script gleefully satirises the pomposity of the art world, merging arty in-jokes with the kind of brittle drawing-room comedy that Coward is so renowned for. |
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That pricking of pomposity and ceremony reflects one of her enjoyable, endearing traits and a quality sadly missing in general politics since she quit. |
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The dismal mumblings of everyday business in the House of Commons, the creaking pomposity of the Lords, the ghastly flummery of the state opening are overlooked. |
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I wasn't particularly impressed with this article, but the sheer pomposity of some of the comments BTL has actually left me feeling downright depressed. |
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Like Bush, he is widely regarded as a philistine and intellectually limited man, whose pomposity and sense of self-importance are exceeded only by his provincialism. |
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He has staked out his claim for being a great critic through portentousness, pomposity, and extravagant pretension, and, from all appearances, seems to have achieved it. |
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Throughout, these figures mirror humanity in all its pomposity and haplessness, calculation and honesty, devotion and infidelity, profanity and piety. |
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Even his jokes had a habit of sounding like pomposity or bad temper to those who did not know him. |
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Mr Perry duly obliged. What elections are forComedy, vanity, pomposity, flashes of mendacity: the Republican campaign has not been edifying. |
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Mr. Speaker, we have seen from the hon. member a fairly impressive degree of pomposity in his commentary. |
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He deflated pomposity and pointed out emperors who had no clothes with such nimble skill that his subjects often were not aware of it. |
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Therefore, despite all the pomposity of the club there was fun and frolicking a plenty. |
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Scenes of irresistible hilarity, completely convincing excess, and carefully crafted pomposity and grandiloquence. |
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He is generous and tolerant of the young and aspiring, but a merciless adversary when he detects a dominating, powerful academic figure in pomposity or imposture. |
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The pomposity and rigmarole they put directors through is astounding. |
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There was a disarming contrast between his imposing appearance in three piece suit and starched collar and his complete lack of pomposity and his sense of humour. |
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It also became clear that blogs could be a powerful tool for puncturing the pomposity and authority on which unscrupulous senior officials rely in order to avoid scrutiny. |
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To tempt is exciting, to excite is seductive-lots of references, a little compassion and a pinch of pomposity, that's our recipe for title credits that invite us to explore the world, history, culture and the arts. |
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We are adding more to it when I hear the pomposity from the other side. |
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By avoiding pomposity, ambiguity and complexity you attain simplicity, which is the greatest cunning because it conveys your meaning into the mind of another straight away, without effort on his part. |
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And even Lionel Logue, the speech therapist who cuts through so much of the monarchy's pomposity, is a hideous social climber who subtly becomes more and more obnoxious and complacent the more access he gets to the king. |
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The real estate market in Heaven for his kind of self-aggrandizing pomposity dried up long ago. |
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Watching her being flawlessly lampooned – her hypocrisy and pomposity laid bare with a clarity that only comedy can achieve – felt like a gossamer lifeline of hope and sanity to which we could all cling. |
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So Rickles's legend as a dauntless pricker of pomposity was born. |
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No doubt the hacks scoffed at his pomposity. |
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With their super-formal tone and heavy use of jargon, legal documents are renowned for their pomposity. |
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The lawyer who refrains from arrogance, pomposity, and unnecessary squabbling and disputatiousness is well on his or her way. |
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Mass to Then there's the great humour of the Just William books, pricking pomposity and poking fun at poodle-fakers in a classically British way. |
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It was a match made in heaven as Zenios is the equal of Dr Eleni in pomposity, humourlessness and moral superiority. |
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Feodor declared his kingdom open to all foreigners, and dismissed the English ambassador Sir Jerome Bowes, whose pomposity had been tolerated by the new Tsar's late father. |
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The pomposity and rubbish music had put off many people and the sight of lots of chinless wonders waving the Union Jack was offensive to our multi-culti brothers. |
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Changing society is reflected in how we went from the pomposity of David Jacobs, through the insipid twitterings of Noel Edmonds to the smarm of Simon Bates. |
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