| But this pompousness is easily forgotten after the first bite: this is perfectly, painfully crafted food made to impress. |
| Montaigne in his essays pursued an ethical purpose, but with no pompousness or rhetoric. |
| The five-day-long 2003 ceremony was in fact a festival in which all the pompousness and luxurious attitude of the ashram was reflected. |
| I'm all for good satire, the sharp and perceptive deflating of pretense, pompousness or deceit. |
| There is not enough hatred or bitterness or stroppiness or pompousness to make it really sing. |
| At the same time he lacked the pompousness and standoffish attitude which is the way of some foreign correspondents. |
