pompously

How To Use pompously In A Sentence

• Thus the newspaper man, wearily certain that regardless of what he asks or how he asks it, he will hear for answers only the clumsy asininities behind which the personalities, leaders and sacred white cows pompously attitudinize, gets so that he mumbles a bit incoherently. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
• Geneva, "pompously," is no place for brawling, and if you come hither for that, you will quickly find yourself behind bars. The Long Night
• We work toward a movement in which all cereal chromosomes will be united, not only in one New Cereal (pompously designated "the first man-made cereal") but also in other new cereals besides Triticale such as Hordecale (amphidiploid of barley and rye), Triticordeum (amphidiploid of wheat and barley) and many more, not scorning any contribution, be it of chromosomes or only a few genes found in countless other gramineous strains, that will prove to be of undeniable Value to the betterment of many cereals. Chapter 12
• Henry, fighting the urge to just disappear and let the battle rage on, shifted somewhat pompously and very self-confidently into a loud authoritative voice.
• In gen­eral I think that genre analy­sis is an under­ap­pre­ci­ated tool (I will assert that with­out both­er­ing to prove it — mak­ing my cur­rent genre: pompously pro­claim­ing). The Art of Verification « Snarkmarket
• Both involve ancient recurring human drama, and after a whole it becomes simply wilful to feign contemptuous ignorance of something filling two pages of our daily papers, like those judges who would interject, pompously: "What is a Teletubbie/Xbox/iPod? Yes, it's fine to admit you don't watch TV | Euan Ferguson
• There is a story in your family in which a local squire once reminded your grandfather rather pompously that ‘I came over with the Normans.’
• As more than sixty of the elegant vehicles pompously purred their way through the city.
• While her colleagues pompously assemble public forums, she informs the police.
• Carlton is bending facts here in an area he often pompously claims first-hand knowledge.