pompously in a sentence
Examples
- Where the style is not pompously high-flown, it is often painfully and uninspiringly literal . . . It is also peppered with Latinisms ."
- :: As for " flowery, " no, I do not write in a style that could be considred dry, pedantic or pompously boring.
- Gomes pompously arrived in Tanur and brought with him his interpreter Pedro Luis, along with 60 Portuguese soldiers under the command of Captain Garcia de Sa.
- When Mankiewicz argues that Hearst is too powerful to take on, Welles pompously tells him, " I expected more from you, Mank ."
- What a coup ( and such an expensive one ) for its next owner to gloat pompously when pontificating : " this belonged to Garbo ."
- Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life ."
- Waddell, in particular, is winning, striking the perfect balance of intelligence and vulnerability, as is Annis, who's cluelessly, pompously and vexingly proper.
- A crude, hyperbolic narration, pompously declaimed by John Ventimiglia in the announcing style of a 1950s newsreel, has the tedious redundancy of a stack of gushy press releases.
- He explained that although Mac occasionally acts pompously, this approach is " a mask that he puts on to keep people at distance when he gets afraid or embarrassed ".
- The wedding was first pompously celebrated at Anuka's house in Kvishkheti and then at the court of Heraclius's father, Teimuraz II of Kartli, in Tbilisi.