pomposity

How To Use pomposity In A Sentence

• He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away.
• The prince's manner was informal,(sentence dictionary) without a trace of pomposity.
• Those fans who have defended Diamond against charges of pomposity will really love this record.
• Unfortunately it's weighted down with accretion upon accretion of utterly self-indulgent pomposity.
• 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.
• We feel the man's pomposity and age, taste the heat and sweat of his desperation in the grip of beauty and decay. Times, Sunday Times
• 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.
• In the bishops they saw pomposity and rampant corruption, disdain for biblical teaching, and addiction to ceremony. Christianity Today
• 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.
• As the co-founder of legendary graphic design studio Push Pin, he was a prime mover in deflating the pomposity of modernism and ushering in the freer, more whimsical visual styles that defined the ’60s and ’70s. Book Review: Seymour : Scrubbles.net