| There is not enough hatred or bitterness or stroppiness or pompousness to make it really sing. |
| I'm all for good satire, the sharp and perceptive deflating of pretense, pompousness or deceit. |
| At the same time he lacked the pompousness and standoffish attitude which is the way of some foreign correspondents. |
| The five-day-long 2003 ceremony was in fact a festival in which all the pompousness and luxurious attitude of the ashram was reflected. |
| Those close to him say his pompousness may be a means to combat shyness. |
| She used her famously fierce wit to deflate male pompousness. |
