Their pomposity was constantly undermined in satisfying ways, particularly by Roz.
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PIRRO: Have you ever met anyone by the name of pomposity?
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What dialogue exists is down to earth and devoid of oratorical pomposity.
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Suddenly, I start to smell the faint odor of pomposity and arrogance.
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Now the worst Europeans have to worry about is his tendency to pomposity.
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Their ingrained hatred of authority and pomposity give the novel a rebel spirit.
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He lies when his pride is injured and when his pomposity is challenged.
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His work was profound but he resisted the pomposity that sometimes accompanies art criticism.
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Nathan Lyons worked outside mainstream aesthetics, eschewing pomposity, while capturing wonderment amid everyday banality.
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The Duplasses aren't afraid to undercut their characters with a moment that destroys their pomposity.
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He is blessedly free of pomposity, despite holding one of the great offices of state.
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It isn't about the pomp and pomposity, it's about sitting down for a nice meal.
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Jay-Z's most celebratory moments arrive with pomposity, and Beyoncé is more given to joy.
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Opera seria was encrusted with conventions and prone toward pomposity when Mozart received the Munich commission.
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But there is, in the NFL's ungenerousness and pomposity, a failure of imagination that could undo it.
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It's all of these things, plus the ambient pomposity and cynicism that surrounds everything the league does.
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Perhaps the conductor, Marco Armiliato, could have done more to rein in these moments of verismo pomposity.
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Some of his most memorable work focused on mocking the pomposity and dubious ethics of powerful men.
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I recognize the pomposity of a member of the media calling out the profession for failing the public.
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And there always seemed to be an air of pomposity to the huge (we're talking 20 minutes plus) movements.
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Karaoke, a pomposity-puncturing form, actually elevates the stardom of someone singing his or her own hits with DGAF gusto.
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South Africans concerned with public virtue staunchly defended the media despite its enduring sloppiness, pomposity, and obsession with shock value.
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Here we find courage, pettiness, self-deception, love, profundity, triviality, sadness, joy, munificence, greed, theatricality, restraint, wit, pomposity, despair, hope.
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JEANINE PIRRO, FOX NEWS HOST: I love the way you sign off the sworn enemy of pomposity and all that.
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"The grand bad faith of the Cantos—its pomposity, its anger—is a constant, running line after line," Swift notes.
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Prioritising form over substance has clear drawbacks, including a tendency towards pomposity—as when ASEAN declared itself a nuclear-free zone.
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Having spent my adult life in politics I can assure you that this lack of pomposity is both unusual and refreshing.
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"I am quite sure male chefs have committed far, far worse crimes in the cause of pretentious and pomposity," he said.
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"We're going to a Kanye opera," a woman declared to her friend with mock pomposity as she walked into the Bowl.
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Reverend James Maciver felt his pomposity could be best captured by the term "gaotha," which "basically means a windbag," he said.
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Persistent unluckiness, low self-esteem and compensatory pomposity define the comic universe of "The Treasure," Corneliu Porumboiu's most recent film, for instance.
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"There have been lies and lies and lies and loads of pomposity" was one Tory MP's summary of the race so far.
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But 10 years after its release, I still find myself drawn to Revolver and all its wonders and faults, puzzles and pomposity.
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The veteran David Garrison imparts the Major-General, the father of a brood of capering lovelies, including Mabel, with a dithery pomposity.
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Or that the best way to undermine his media critics is to make light of their pomposity, not thunder at their impudence.
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He also suggested that a degree of pomposity on the part of the media had contributed to a loss of public credibility.
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He goes back and forth between puncturing his own pomposity and wishing he could have said and done things in a different way.
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Sweating, I wonder about the historical accumulation of several millennia of dopamine rushes, whether it's contributed to the architectural pomposity of the place.
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"I think Comey is a preening popinjay utterly consumed with his own vainglorious pomposity," Podhoretz wrote, among many other pointed remarks on Twitter.
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The operatic pomposity of the build up, collapsing into that irresistible, gooey bassline—even now, it's a totally alluring, if completely ludicrous, proposition.
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The pomposity of the Chief Factor and his circle, who talk of Paris fashions and military discipline, is ridiculous (if also potentially lethal).
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Frances has been cheating on Robert with a different man (played with amusing pomposity by Flight of the Conchords' Jemaine Clement) for several months.
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In the nearly 21998,250 cartoons he published between 22013 and 21988, he cast a wide and whimsical net on American society and skewered pomposity.
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As in other recent Romanian films, this one casts an exasperated eye on a society where power and male pomposity go hand in hand.
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As in other recent Romanian films, this one casts an exasperated eye on a society where power and male pomposity go hand in hand.
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When "My Fair Lady" opened on Broadway in 1956, Rex Harrison inflated Henry Higgins with such self-satisfied pomposity that he loomed frighteningly over everyone.
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Despite the level of culinary innovation and beautiful presentation, prices are very reasonable, likely a product of the city's widespread disdain for over-the-top pomposity.
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But what killed me last year were the jokes, because I love jokes—dirty jokes, bad jokes, rude jokes, jokes that cut through bullshit and explode pomposity.
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The basic comedy of a jiggling beige lump puncturing top-level sport's pomposity would be enough for most, but Roberts milks his cameo for a little more.
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Maybe, as Zapruder claims, you can see "Casey" as a poem that speaks to the way we think about poetry itself, a parody of form, structure, and pomposity.
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Mr. Burns's loud know-it-all persona played well off Mr. Schreiber's warm, low-key one, particularly when Mr. Schreiber, as he so often did, punctured Mr. Burn's pomposity.
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As the nuptials spiral into a delirious bacchanal evoking Luis Buñuel's 1962 classic, "The Exterminating Angel," guests delve into decadence, and a mother and father become gargoyles of parental pomposity.
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One gorgeous gray ink painting of a fish dates back to the 13th century, but wears a fresh expression of comic pomposity that would easily fit in a TV cartoon.
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He glanced at the review, and saw four stars, but he didn't read the piece, which included teasing references to pompous elements that had survived a recent effort to contain pomposity.
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The necessity of classifying each person one came across as vous or tu , outsider or insider, potential foe or friend, seemed at best a pomposity and at worst an act of paranoia.
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He'd had enough of top-heavy pomposity at theological college, when some of his fellow students seemed fixated on high preferment and glittering robes, and he, instead, had preached on Jesus as a clown.
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His new collection of journalism, "The Rub of Time," produced the usual reaction in me: intense, fawning admiration for his wit and verve, interspersed with bursts of contemptuous irritation at some pomposity or other.
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South Korean officials have contended that Mr. Kim is holding the party congress now because he values pomposity more than his father did and wants his young leadership to receive the imprimatur of a full congress.
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His renowned "Novecento" (1997), a taxidermied horse suspended from a Baroque ceiling like a drooping chandelier, collapses both the martial pomposity of the Fascists and the futility of modern art to live up to classical architecture.
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" AND NOW, A WORD FROM CHARLES… "Given their arrogance, pomposity and habitual absurdities, it is hard not to feel a certain satisfaction with the comeuppance that Brexit has delivered to the unaccountable European Union bureaucrats in Brussels.
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Here, he transforms a sink he saw in a friend of a friend's apartment into an existential treatise, delivered via voiceover with a careful blend of pomposity and self-doubt in host Emily Blunt's dulcet British tones.
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Unless pigs fly in a Trump presidency and he really grows in the job, which I do not read as a good bet, his supporters will soon learn that he has nothing to offer beyond narcissistic pomposity.
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But they were not forgotten — perhaps, Mr. Elliott theorized, because the "hilarity of pomposity" had not gone out of style — and in 1982, they returned to the airwaves with "The Bob and Ray Public Radio Show" on NPR.
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Eurovision has many sins but also displays virtues: an absence of pomposity, a nod to national cultures, a tolerance of the artificial, an openness both to the new and the familiar and a sense of what people want.
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In our current situation, where bragging and pomposity are everyday features in politics and art, and critics toss out the phrase "mega-star" without the slightest hint of irony, Vandenberg's bitterly funny work strikes a distressingly resonant chord.
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Another year of holier-than-thou handwringing over votes, with the usual dose of pomposity from the Baseball Writers Association of America that imagine themselves as Gandalf gatekeepers shouting "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" at perceived PED-era malefactors.
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If they were united by anything, however, it was the desire to use an épée tip to puncture some of the pomposity attached to a heritage house, as opposed to a statement on what defines a woman now.
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The purpose of the interview smacks of an effort to put Flynn on notice — slap him on the wrist, so to speak, for his pomposity, including for his chants of "lock her up" at the 2016 Republican convention.
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She expunged "term-paper pomposity" from her reviews, distancing herself from aloof "gentleman critics" by balancing her encyclopedic film knowledge with proudly subjective opinions, autobiographical tidbits, dirty jokes and remarks she overheard from other patrons in the cinema.
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The American Presidency has developed an unfortunate resemblance not so much to an imperial throne, as some insist, as to the medieval papacy, with an obsessive pomposity of office producing all those hangar-size libraries and bricklike memoirs.
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In fact, the only times Veep and Parks & Recreation have seemed to intersect has been when Leslie Knope went to Washington, late in the show's run, and we got a glimpse of the bureaucracy and pomposity surrounding the place.
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Fans are already mourning the loss of Bachman, who in the hands of actor T. J. Miller had become a flaming spear of satire, piercing the illusions and pomposity of the tech world armed only with a bong and unassailable mediocrity.
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But the enduring delights of this novel seduced me then as now: the spirit and wit of Elizabeth Bennet, who defies convention by spurning the hand of the wealthy, haughty Mr. Darcy; the pomposity of Mr. Collins; the vulgarity of Mrs.
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DICK TAVERNEHouse of LordsLondon With nauseating pomposity, The Economist dedicates an entire special report to offer solemn sensible British advice on how to "save Europe" from tearing itself apart, as if Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk are supposed to sit attentively and take notes.
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After 40 years in the public eye, Mr. Trump decided on Thursday night that he was not interested in revealing himself to America with disarming tales of his upbringing, hard-earned lessons from his tumultuous career or the inner struggles masked by his outward pomposity.
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The House of Government, as it was initially called, was a mishmash of the blocky geometry of Constructivism and the soaring pomposity of neoclassicism, and had five hundred and five apartments that housed the Soviet Union's governing élite—commissars and Red Army generals and vaunted Marxist scholars.
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Gunn decides to treat the quest for meaning seriously—a lethal move that not only leads to the noisy palaver of the climax but also undermines Chris Pratt, who likes to hold these movies at arm's length, as it were, and to probe them for pomposity.
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Along with his reputation for excess — long shows spanning four, sometimes eight, hours, created by stretching out material through endless repetition — Fabre's frequent misogyny, occasional animal cruelty, and general pomposity that goes with being King of Belgian Dance, have made past experiences of his work occasionally unbearable.
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But at every turn they undermine any latent pomposity, pointing out the recycled music from the directors' previous film, "Mister John" (2013), and revealing that the rugged Andalusian clifftop from which O'Higgins (as embodied by Jose Miguel Jimenez) gazes out towards the New World is, in fact, Howth Head near Dublin.
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But in creating a culture around shutting down what his mainly young, white, male listeners saw as the sacred cows of "political correctness" -- whether it was sexual taboos or the pomposity of American elites -- Stern and the generation of radio "shock jocks" he inspired built the foundation of a revolt.
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Constantly stoned, with a huge leonine mane, Erlich was the comic distillation of Silicon Valley's insulated pomposity; despite having few talents outside of schmoozing, he felt entitled to success, destined for greatness, confident that he would come up with an idea that would change the very way that humans live.
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The first four months of the Macron presidency have veered from relief (at his defeat of Ms Le Pen), admiration (at restored presidential dignity) and delight (at his muscular treatment of the Russian and American presidents) to wariness (at his inclination to pomposity) and apprehension (as spending cuts and labour reforms take shape).
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But the casualness of the form is at odds with the solemnity of West's confessional mode, which demands obsessive attention to craft, and "Violent Crimes" and "I Thought About Killing You" are the clunkiest examples to date of the pomposity that inevitably arises whenever he tries to plumb the darkness in his soul.
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Apart from the feathered fancies, there were coronas of leaves in fuchsia and jade green that bristled like haute dandelions on the model's heads, capping off a remarkable outing that took the elements of classic high fashion — ruffles, volumes, bows, embroidery, taffeta — and rendered them weightless, and without pomposity: couture for the era of the casual everyday.
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The bilious bad faith and blinkered pomposity and annihilating involuted stupidity of the past couple weeks are not any less present in September than they are in February, and if you're enough of a defective that you'd cross the street to shame a sexual harassment victim in the first place, you probably don't mind stepping over a snowdrift or two to do it.
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But on February 1st activists handed victory in the Iowa caucuses to Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Princeton and Harvard-educated lawyer whose wife works for Goldman Sachs, and whose highly polished campaign speeches lurch from sermonising—"Father God…awaken the Body of Christ, that we might pull back from the abyss"—to Ivy League pomposity, as when he tells crowds that this election represents an "inflection point" in history.
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And paper, being small and bendable and tearable and fragile and relatively unimportant — worlds away, culturally speaking, from the heavy, studied pomposity of bronze, or the slow-drying laborsomeness of oils — was stuff that could be snatched up at whim, and then managed or mismanaged and folded and creased, and then quickly torn into creatively provocative itsy-bitsy shapes, and in fact generally messed with on the wing.
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It is hard to identify Swift's final judgment of the poetry; he declares that "the grand bad faith of the 'Cantos' — its pomposity, its anger — is a constant, running line after line," but this is so instantly untrue that one wants to chalk it up to the spiteful impatience every reader has felt who has engaged deeply with Pound's allusive and polyphonic poem and emerged occasionally inspired but also baffled and frustrated.
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This inflated follow-up album, four labored years in the making, doubles down on the anthemic choruses, flashy string swells, heartsick soul singers tearing up at the mic, and general pomposity — a white, conservative artistic mode if ever one existed — all backing lyrics calculated to convince African-Americans he's not like all those other bad white people, he's different, he knows the culture, he's familiar with Langston Hughes and Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin, he's a friend.
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So Rickles's legend as a dauntless pricker of pomposity was born.
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The lawyer who refrains from arrogance, pomposity, and unnecessary squabbling and disputatiousness is well on his or her way.
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The temple is very famous for its spectacular annual event called Brahmotsavam, when the cultures and traditions of the region are portrayed through great spiritual pomposity.
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Compared with the floweriness and pomposity of much preceding French fiction, Madame de La Fayette writes in a pared-down prose which almost has the air of a dispassionate observer.
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic was critical of the length of the album, commenting that the album captures Third Eye Blind's "early way with a hook as skillfully as their descent into unbearable pomposity".
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She has worked with Axel Schultes on other projects, including the Kunstmuseum Bonn (1992).Michael Z. Wise, "The New Berlin: Expressing Government Power Without Pomposity", New York Times, 11 April 1999. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
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Sir Thomas Beecham, for instance, "emphasised his pomposity" by his poses and pretensions. "Not once have I been touched by his performances. I always found his artistry superficial." Herbert von Karajan was "not a nice man".
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The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow noted "Somehow Kenton turns Wagner's music into jazz, capturing the intense emotion, pomposity and drama with daring ideas. Not for all tastes, this LP was one of Stan Kenton's last innovative recordings".
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Despite his warm relationship with his wife Elizabeth, he suffers from impotence. As pressures at work build, relations with his dysfunctional relatives deteriorate. His brother-in-law Jimmy and son-in-law Tom are both presented as incompetent. Tom's "political correctness" emphasises his pomposity.
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Quick and successful accomplishment of the studies is promoted, as well as sports. The fraternity's insignia The fraternity bears colors and rejects the tradition of student fencing as being inconsistent with Christian ideas as well as pomposity such as the use of horses on parades (i.e. the Corpus Christi procession).
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The passenger building is a typically impressive fascist design, not lacking in pomposity. Conceived by Mazzoni, its style, incorporating large spaces in a straightforward structure that emphasises the vertical, became the norm for public buildings of the era. Its design makes extensive use of travertine tiling and floor-to-ceiling windows.
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Catherine II travels to the Crimea. Potemkin is working on a scenario of events on this matter. Ushakov tells him that he can only boast of the increased training of personnel. Potemkin, despite external outrage, decides to surprise the empress and the ambassadors of European powers not with pomposity but with might.
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A similar dynamic is used in Peep Show in which the characters of Mitchell and Webb were adapted for the sitcom formula. In this case both characters suffer from pomposity. The difference between the pair is the laidback, cool arrogance (yet stupidity) of Jeremy and the intellectual arrogance (yet social-awkwardness) of Mark.
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They added that "technically, "Sleeping Satellite" is an elegant blend of acoustics with synthetics, starting from the chic cascade, unloading the pomposity of a piece on a bridge built of psychedelic keyboard variations." In his review of the album Great Expectations, Nick Duerden from Select described the song as "sultry" and "soulful".
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In the opinion of music critic Richie Unterberger, the performance of "All You Need Is Love" is "the best footage of the Beatles in the psychedelic period" and "captures Flower Power at its zenith, with enough irreverence to avoid pomposity, what with the sandwich boards of lyrics, the florid clothing and decor, and celebrity guests".
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"The absence of pomposity was characteristic of this guy", said another designer, Paul Rand, about Matter. His creative life was devoted to narrowing the gap between so- called fine and applied arts. Matter died on May 8, 1984, in Southampton, New York.The Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz gives Springs, East Hampton, New York, as his place of death.
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The term was applied to the music of bands and artists such as Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Kate Bush, Soft Machine, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It reached its peak of popularity in the mid-1970s, but had mixed critical acclaim and the punk movement can be seen as a reaction against its musicality and pomposity.
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Higgins plays Magnum's foil. Higgins has been described as representing "the pomposity, elitism, and stuffiness of the Old Guard (literally and figuratively)". John Hillerman has stated, "Higgins in any situation thinks he's the only sane person around while everyone else is raving mad." Despite this, all four main protagonists formed close friendships, although there were the constant squabbles.
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As the wedding party gathers, various episodes unfold. John Adams courts Constance Fletcher, Daniel Webster (who is to perform the ceremony) addresses Angel More in sentimental language. Indiana's brother bursts in, wishing to prevent the marriage, and Susan B. explains what marriage means to women. General Grant calls for order, and Jo teases him for his pomposity.
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Each character is further differentiated: > The vocal style I think of as heightened speech, following closely the > rhythms and contours of the text. Each character has a vocal "thumbprint." > For some examples, the hero's music soars upward, only to fall a bit and > resume its climb — Sisyphus pushing the bolder uphill. The king's music is > marked by wide leaps, conveying pomposity and exaggeration.
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Glasgow had joined the organization the year after it formed at age 19. She became vice president of the Richmond SPCA in 1911. Ellen Glasgow highlighted the idea of "Anthropomorphic pomposity," an idea that humans are superior to animals. Glasgow was the president of the Richmond SPCA's board and the enforcer of the first shelter to be created in 1924 for this organization.
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Václav Chvátal described him as "selfless, open, patient, sympathetic, understanding, considerate." Michael Todd, another colleague, described him as "cynical about politics," "very modest and kind to his friends," and "intolerant of condescension and pomposity." Khachiyan married Olga Pischikova Reynberg, of Russian Jewish origin, in 1985. They had two daughters, Anna and Nina, who were teenagers at the time of his death.
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Gibbons's writing has been praised by critics for its perspicacity, sense of fun, charm, wit and descriptive skill—the last a product of her journalistic training—which she used to convey both atmosphere and character.Oliver, p. 217 Although Beauman refers to "malicious wit",Beauman, p. 217 Truss sees no cruelty in the often barbed humour, which reflected Gibbons's detestation of pomposity and pretence.
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Baron Douglas, however was a plump and emphatic pomposity. At a tavern, Gilan meets the young widowed barker, Maeve, who informs him that Philip had racked up high gambling debts. She also thinks she saw Philip heading towards Ambrose Turner's house, the man to whom he owed the most. On his way back to the castle, Gilan is ambushed by two crossbowmen.
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This book is a collection of comics and illustrations often featuring animal-people in vibrant watercolors. Publishers Weekly said about her book, "Hanawalt takes a kebab skewer to the pomposity that's grown up around food and dining. The cartoons evoke an idiosyncratic absurdity akin to Roz Chast's work." On August 21, 2018, Hanawalt released a graphic novel with Drawn and Quarterly entitled Coyote Doggirl.
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In rejecting the personality cult, he for instance rejected ideas that statues be built to him. In a 1963 memorandum, he called on colleagues to help him in "stamping out the disease of pomposity" in Tanzanian society. As President, he for instance he did not like to be referred to as either "Your Excellency" or "Dr Nyerere". Most staff members referred to him as "Mzee", a Swahili word meaning "old man".
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There were also aesthetic objections to the design. A critic from the Boston Herald described the monument as "vainglorious, demanding of attention and full of trite imagery." The Philadelphia Inquirer argued that "this pompous style was also favored by Hitler and Mussolini" (see Nazi architecture). The Washington Post described it as "overbearing", "bombastic", and a "hodgepodge of cliche and Soviet-style pomposity" with "the emotional impact of a slab of granite".
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While she never placed a bet, her horses were successful in their races, leading her to become a leading racehorse owner in Northern England."Lady Anne Bentinck", John O'Groat Journal She was described by an employee as "famously forthright, funny and practical, a devastatingly gifted mimic, and would have no truck with pomposity or preciousness." She drove her small jeep on the private roads of her estate until a few days before her death.
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The new staff celebrates in the kitchen, particularly pleased that the common English fare Molly improvised for dinner instead of food "of subtlety and distinction" impressed Sir Arthur much more. Jimmy joins their celebration. Graham comes down to the kitchen to congratulate them, but overhears Jimmy imitating his gruff pomposity and sour outlook. He sends Jimmy to bed and sacks the staff, including Peabody, when he learns from Molly that they are former entertainers.
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In that year, he also issued an edict against the extravagant pomposity of the Church which contributed to the end of the era of Bavarian rococo. He also forbade the Oberammergau Passion Play. In 1771 the elector regulated general school attendance. In December 1777 Maximilian Joseph rode in his carriage through Munich; on the ride, as he passed one of the tower clocks, the mechanism broke, and the clock struck 77 times.
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Unlike his father, Feodor had no enthusiasm in maintaining exclusive trading rights with England. Feodor declared his kingdom open to all foreigners, and dismissed the English ambassador Sir Jerome Bowes, whose pomposity had been tolerated by Ivan. Elizabeth sent a new ambassador, Dr. Giles Fletcher, to demand from the regent Boris Godunov that he convince the Tsar to reconsider. The negotiations failed, due to Fletcher addressing Feodor with two of his many titles omitted.
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Alan does not get on well with Mac. Like many of the doctors, Mac often attacks his pomposity and superiority. They often attack each other's hairstyles, Alan mocking Mac's rather feminine haircut, and Mac making remarks about Alan's moustache. Their main argument arose when Alan had bought a new car, and was outraged by the fact that Mac has a parking space right near the entrance that he never uses because he rides a motorbike.
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Mac does not get on well with Alan. Like many of the doctors, Mac often attacks his pomposity and superiority. They often attack each other's hairstyles, Alan mocking Mac's rather feminine haircut, and Mac making remarks about Alan's moustache. Their main argument arises when Alan buys a new car, and is outraged by the fact that Mac has a parking space close to the entrance that he never uses, because he rides a motorbike.
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His extravagance and pomposity made him unpopular among the general public, and his attempts to interfere in political matters rankled both prime ministers he worked with (Andrew Fisher and Alfred Deakin). Deakin regarded him as doing "nothing really important, nothing thoroughly, nothing consistently [...] very ineffective and not very popular". He was recalled to England after less than three years in office. Dudley took command of the Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars in 1913.
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Some called for Livingstone's removal, but Michael Foot's assistant Una Cooze defended Livingstone's position. Television and radio outlets invited Livingstone for interviews; described by biographer John Carvel as having "one of the best television styles of any contemporary politician", Livingstone used this medium to speak to a wider audience, gaining widespread public support, something Carvel attributed to his "directness, self-deprecation, colourful language, complete unflappability under fire and lack of pomposity", coupled with popular policies like Fares Fair.
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In The War Between the Tates, moreover, the repercussions are strictly personal, Brian Tate's, not Dibble's, professorial pomposity is punctured. Tate gets mixed up in the demonstration, at first on the side of the women, and then by unadvisedly trying to rescue his colleague, the terrified Dibble, from their blockade of his office. Some of Tate's mixed motivations are described this way: > Brian felt some sympathy for Jenny's cause. After all, Dibble probably had > made some foolishly unprofessional remarks.
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Wilson provides a more realistic and down-to-earth appraisal of a situation than Mainwaring, who is blinded by pomposity and patriotism, as demonstrated in this exchange: :Mainwaring: They'll never get through the Maginot Line. :Wilson: Haven't you heard... They went around the side. :Mainwaring: That's a typical shabby Nazi trick! Mainwaring also routinely comments on Wilson's private life, specifically his relationship with Mrs Pike and her son (and their underling at the bank and fellow platoon member) Frank.
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An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia compares Willett's character to other "valiant counterweight[s]" in Lovecraft such as Thomas Malone in "The Horror at Red Hook" (1925) and Henry Armitage in "The Dunwich Horror"; like Willett, Armitage "defeats the 'villains' by incantations, and he is susceptible to the same flaws—pomposity, arrogance, self-importance—that can be seen in Willett."S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, "Dunwich Horror, The", An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia, p. 81.
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The two murders they considered to be 'splendid'. In a 1984 review, George N Dove noted that Smallbone Deceased is widely considered to be Gilbert's most successful novel. It has, he said, an air of bright originality along with the characteristically plausible atmosphere of a solicitor's firm, dry whimsical wit, and a serene atmosphere that is shattered by a sensational murder. There is an especially strong playful portrayal of the English lawyer's talent for solemn pomposity.
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George Brown was a notable personality and powerful communicator and was widely sought as an after-dinner speaker, on which occasions he could be informative as well as witty, spicing his speeches with many amusing anecdotes. He hated pomposity, and several people who tried to conceal ignorance or incompetence became victims of his acerbic wit in his memoirs. He could also appear modest. On one occasion someone introduced him –somewhat inaccurately – as the greatest mathematician in the USA.
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It was noted that it still managed to feel spacious and loose, drawing inspiration from soul songs from the 70's. Live instruments were used during recording, adding a more organic sense to the sound. Ocean makes his vocal presence front center on the track, a move compared to the pomposity of musical choreographer Busby Berkeley, with lyrical influence from Joan Didion and Randy Newman. R&B; singer D'Angelo and his album Voodoo was noted as another inspiration.
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Tony Namate is an award-winning Zimbabwean cartoonist who has gained international recognition for his scathing cartoon commentary on socio- political issues in Zimbabwe and beyond.Humphreys, Joe (19 September 2006). His 2011 collection of political cartoons, whose title -- "The Emperor's New Clods" -- alludes to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Emperor's New Clothes", has been described by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’ Kevin Kallaugher as “...[puncturing] the pomposity of the powerful on behalf of the poor and the powerless.”Collier, Barbara (23 September 2011).
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Numerous photographs, plaques, and model ships seen in the background of his office as Chief Superintendent suggest prior service with the Royal Navy Submarine Service. As a young Constable in Endeavour Strange is already in the habit of addressing people as "matey". Slightly overweight, and given to bouts of pomposity, he is nonetheless a dependable and honest policeman, with his mind set on a career in the police. During the second series of Endeavour, Strange is invited to become a Freemason and accepts.
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The actor 150px Widmerpool has twice been portrayed in BBC radio broadcasts of the Dance to the Music of Time sequence. The first was a 26-part serial, transmitted on Radio Four between summer 1979 and autumn 1982, in four batches. The novels were dramatised by Frederick Bradnum and the series was produced by Graham Gauld. The part of Widmerpool was played—with, according to one listener "audible pomposity"—by Brian Hewlett, more generally known as a longstanding cast member of the BBC radio serial The Archers.
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The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, a collection of short satires of literary pomposity, was originally published by McSweeney's in 2000. It won the 2001 Firecracker Award for best independently published fiction and led to Pollack being named a "Hot Writer" by Rolling Stone. HarperCollins later published an expanded edition. In 2001, to coincide with the publication of the paperback edition of his Anthology, Pollack recorded a spoken-word album on Bloodshot Records, produced by Jon Langford and featuring Sally Timms and Kelly Hogan.
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The cartoons, described as "the scourge, or possibly succour, of lawyers everywhere",The Procartoonist Newsletter April 2013 make fun of law and lawyers, with a particular focus on legal pomposity and over- billing. The characters are mostly legal archetypes, the barristers inhabiting the mythical Chambers of 4 Lawn Buildings, while the solicitors ply their trade at the firm of Fillibuster and Loophole. The authors of the strip are both lawyers themselves, though Williams left the Bar to pursue a career in film animation.Interview with Williams at www.leavinglaw.
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The Battle for Everything was certified Platinum by the RIAA, making it Five for Fighting's second straight Platinum-selling album. It received mixed reviews from critics, with AllMusic praising the record's "nice craftsmanship" and noting that it was "one of the more interesting, detailed" records in its genre. However, AllMusic was critical of the "pompous narcissism" of the lyrics, calling Ondrasik "deadly serious." Todd Goldstein of PopMatters also criticized the album's "pomposity", but enjoyed "Angels and Girlfriends" for its "unexpected chord changes" and "uncharacteristically quirky" lyrics.
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Several French artists depicted the fable during the 19th century, generally choosing one of two approaches. Gustave Doré and the genre painter Aurélie Léontine Malbet (fl.1868–1906)Exhibited at the 1888 Salon; photo online pictured the rats realistically acting out their debate. The illustrator Grandville, along with the contemporaries Philibert Léon Couturier (1823–1901) and Auguste Delierre (1829–1890), caricature the backward practice and pomposity of provincial legislatures, making much the same point as did the Mediaeval authors who first recorded the tale.
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Flood was described by a historian of the Mary Celeste affair as a man "whose arrogance and pomposity were inversely proportional to his IQ" and as "... the sort of man who, once he had made up his mind about something, couldn't be shifted." Solly-Flood held the post of attorney general until 1877. He died in Gibraltar in 1888 and was buried in Gibraltar Cemetery. He had married Mary Williamson and had seven children, one of which was General Sir Frederick Richard Solly-Flood K.C.B.
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The couple's 20-year-old son William works as a bank clerk in Oldham. The first entries describe the Pooters' daily lives and introduce their particular friends, such as their neighbour Gowing, the enthusiastic bicyclist Cummings, and the Jameses from Sutton. From the beginning a pattern is set whereby the small vexations of the Pooters' daily lives are recounted, many of them arising from Pooter's unconscious self- importance and pomposity. Trouble with servants, tradesmen, and office juniors occur regularly, along with minor social embarrassments and humiliations.
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The performer's demeanor was meant to be reminiscent of the hilarious pomposity of Zip Coon; he aspired to great wisdom and intelligence, but his hilarious mangling of language always made him appear foolish and ignorant. Part three ended the show with a one-act play, typically a vignette of carefree life on the plantation. After Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852 and the play became famous, minstrel shows appropriated the major characters for sketches that changed the abolitionist themes in the original into an argument for the supposedly benign character of slavery.
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Rock journalist David Browne wrote that "[d]uring the Flying Machine days in the Village, Taylor had heard one too many pretentious white blues bands and wrote 'Steamroller' to mock them." Rolling Stone Album Guide critic Mark Coleman, said Taylor's song "effectively mocks the straining pomposity of then-current white bluesmen." Taylor and Danny Kortchmar, both playing electric guitars, laid down the track in one night at Sunset Studios, the rhythm section being added later. A tight budget and production schedule forced Taylor to record the song despite suffering from a head cold.
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Some called for Livingstone's removal, but Michael Foot's Trotskyist assistant Una Cooze defended Livingstone's position to her boss.Hosken 2008. p. 109. Television and radio outlets welcomed Livingstone on for interviews; described by biographer John Carvel as having "one of the best television styles of any contemporary politician", Livingstone used this medium to speak to a wider audience, gaining widespread public support, something Carvell attributed to his "directness, self-deprecation, colourful language, complete unflappability under fire and lack of pomposity", coupled with genuinely popular policies such as Fares Fair.Carvel 1984. p. 102.
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In May 2009 Wired.com reviewed Spellfury and in an article called "7 webotainers worth watching" wrote "Canadian writer-director Travis Gordon throws World Of Warcraft video games, Lord of the Rings pomposity and Buffy The Vampire Slayer snark into the blender for this live-action series" Ain't It Cool News also reviewed his show as well. Also there is a review of Spellfury with some interview pieces on the Koldcast.tv. Mr.Gordon's webseries Spellfury was also reviewed by Tubefilter on July 8, 2009 in an article called "‘Spellfury’ is Low Budget, High Fantasy".
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They also returned to Burketown, Queensland at least once for the same reason. He took only 20 horses, so was unable to investigate far inland, and made no strong recommendation for the site of the capital, though his choice ultimately fell on the Liverpool River, in Arnhem Land. A. T. Saunders (1854–1940), South Australia's noted amateur historian and critic of Cadell the self-publicist and influence-peddler, had little to say on this page in his history. One contemporary newspaper editor however, held nothing back in his satire on Cadell's pomposity.
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"Fiery Jack" was chosen as 'Single of the Week' by Sounds. According to Mick Middles the song saw the band "perfecting pomposity, the Fall jump into the rough and raw world of rockabilly with confidence in excess. 'Fiery Jack' sees the band at their painful best, a number that glides on and on and on."Middles, Mick (1980) "Single of the Week: The Fall: 'Fiery Jack'", Sounds, 23 February 1980, p. 26 The single entered the UK Independent Chart on 23 February 1980, peaking at number 4, and spent twenty weeks on the chart.
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Contributors included M.G. Scroggie, who contributed articles of an educational nature on subjects such as applied mathematics and electronic theory using the pen name "Cathode Ray". "Free Grid" was the pseudonym of Norman Preston Vincer-Minter (1897–1964), a classicist and ex-naval wireless operator who specialised in deflating pomposity with his biting wit. Amongst the early editors was W.T. Cocking (designer of the WW television sets); the last five editors were Tom Ivall, Philip Darrington, Frank Ogden, Martin Eccles and Phil Reed. The current editor is Svetlana Josifovska.
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Electric Six incorporates a variety of styles, resulting in being termed a "genre-blurring" band. The group's sound has been described as a synthesis of "disco, synth pop, glam, and arena rock," including the falsetto vocals of disco, laden with "rampant solos, be they guitar riffs, synth wails, or strutting drums" that enforce the band's "energetic sound." However, the band members themselves have rejected such genre classifications as "disco-metal" and "disco-punk." Critics have termed their lyrics as "disaffected, angry, ironic and lustful", expressing "macho flippancy" and "tongue-in-cheek pomposity".
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Out of the professor's earshot, Vanya calls him "a learned old dried mackerel," criticising him for his pomposity and the smallness of his achievements. Vanya's mother, Maria Vasilyevna, who idolises Serebryakov, objects to her son's derogatory comments. Vanya also praises the professor's wife, Yelena, for her youth and beauty, arguing that faithfulness to an old man like Serebryakov is an immoral waste of vitality. Astrov is forced to depart to attend a patient, but not before delivering a speech on the preservation of the forests, a subject he is very passionate about.
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Meisler, p. 298 Writing for The A.V. Club, Zack Handlen rated the episode a B-, finding that it contained too much "vamping for time", without enough focus on any of the individual plot threads. Handlen felt that the plot thread based on the murder of the Well-Manicured Man's doctor friend should have been the episode's focus, and derided the "pomposity" of the dialogue elsewhere in the episode. Based on an advance viewing of the episode's script, Entertainment Weekly rated "Terma" an A-, praising the "arms race" plotline.
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See > July 1998 Cornell Chronicle. Lurie's novel, in fact, is only loosely based on the real people and events of the tumultuous 1960s, and her characters are the more devastating for being types rather than recognizable portraits. Although she was at Cornell during the famous protests by black students in April 1969, the topics dealt with in her book are feminism, the woes of parenthood, infidelity, and academic pomposity-- not race relations.In April 1969, there was a takeover of the Student Union Willard Straight Hall at Cornell by group of militant African Americans, some of whom displayed guns (though they were not used).
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He persuaded Picasso's dealer, Daniel Kahnweiler, to comment on the contemporary art market; and he also got Michel Leiris to write about Giacometti. Spender recalled to Connolly's biographer, Clive Fisher, that Watson hated "priggishness, pomposity and almost everything to do with public life," and he suspected that he had educated himself "through a love of beautiful works and of people in whom he saw beauty ...". He added "When I think of him then, I think of his clothes, which were beautiful, his general neatness and cleanness, which seemed almost those of a handsome young Bostonian."Clive Fisher, Cyril Connolly: A Nostalgic Life.
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The Gallery Hotel was conceptualised as a "HIP" (Highly Individual Places) hotel. This class of hotel was identified and classified by writer and photographer Herbert Ypma through two publications, HIP Hotels: City (1999) and HIP Hotels: Escape (2000). Associated with designers such as Philippe Starck, Terence Conran and Anouska Hempel, these hotels were defined by Ypma as an alternative to what he called the "dreary sameness of chain hotels and the stuffy pomposity of traditional 'grand' hotels". Local architectural firms William Lim Associates and Tangguanbee Architects, led by architects William S.W. Lim, Tang Guan Bee and Teh Joo Heng, designed the Gallery Hotel.
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A Question of Upbringing, pp. 14–15 It is further shown by his outrage over a prank played by his schoolfellow Charles Stringham on their housemaster, Le Bas.A Question of Upbringing, pp. 48–50 He has a craving for acceptance, even at the price of humiliation, and has a natural talent for aligning himself with the dominant power.Birns, pp. 82–83 Many of Widmerpool's traits are evident quite early in his career: his pomposity, his aversion to all forms of culture ("the embodiment of thick-skinned, self- important philistinism" according to one commentator), his bureaucratic obsessions and his snobbishness.
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The Emperor's New Clods: Political Cartoons from Zimbabwe is a collection of political cartoons by Tony Namate. The collection features cartoons published by the cartoonist in Zimbabwean newspapers between 1998 and 2005, highlighting some landmark moments in a troubled period of the country's history.Chipato, Michael (29 July 2011). The book, whose title alludes to the tale "The Emperor's New Clothes" by Hans Christian Andersen, is said to have been described by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’ Kevin Kallaugher as “...[puncturing] the pomposity of the powerful on behalf of the poor and the powerless.”Collier, Barbara (23 September 2011).
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In his May 1952 memoir Witness, Whittaker Chambers (who time at the Daily Worker and perhaps the New Masses overlapped) wrote of "Abe Magill [sic] as "a solemn young Philadelphian, known, for his humorless pomposity, as the 'rabbi Magill'." By October 1952, Magil took his an interview about Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss with Elinor Ferry, a Hiss supporter. This interview was used by later Hiss supporters including Meyer Zeligs (in his 1967 book ). Citing the interview in her 2013 book, Julia M. Allen quoted Magil as telling Ferry that Chambers' wife Esther Shemitz and her roommate Grace Lumpkin "appeared to be Lesbians.
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It is a historic civil engineering landmark, as designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It would later to be said of the project: > The boundary Charles II envisioned was one of the most grandiose in history. > To decree an imaginary geographic straight line, 3,000 miles long, as a > boundary across an unknown continent that he didn't even own was the height > of royal pomposity. The survey was done in five stages, using cadastral and geodetic surveying, being one of the first attempts to mark a boundary so long that it had to be concerned with the curvature of the Earth.
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He was a very agreeable companion and a thorough man of the world, singularly free from arrogance and pomposity—owing to his small stature, he was often known as "die kleine Excellenz". Windthorst married Juliane (Julie) Sybille Caroline Engelen (12/09/1805 Oedingberge26/01/1898, Hanover) on May 29, 1839: of his four living children, three died before him. They were Maria (26/09/18412/02/1933), Anna (12/04/184319/03/1867), Julius (15/11/184418/11/1872), and Eduard (7/07/184624/04/1860). Windthorst's Ausgewählte Reden were published in three volumes (Osnabrück, 1901–1902).
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It reached its peak of popularity in the mid-1970s, but had mixed critical acclaim and the punk movement can be seen as a reaction against its musicality and perceived pomposity. Nevertheless, Pink Floyd's 1973 release, The Dark Side of the Moon, was an immediate success, remaining in the charts for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988, with an estimated 50 million copies sold. It is Pink Floyd's most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling albums worldwide. It has twice been remastered and re-released, and has been covered in its entirety by several other acts.
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He had the ability to project a balance of menace and pomposity in roles as the "heavy" in comedy films, such as those of the Marx Brothers or Abbott and Costello. From left to right: Henry Wilcoxon, Dumbrille, Yul Brynner, and others in the trailer for The Ten Commandments (1956) He portrayed the Egyptian priest and magician Jannes in DeMille's final film, The Ten Commandments (1956). Also working in television, Dumbrille was cast in six episodes of the religion anthology series, Crossroads. He portrayed Senator Bates in "Thanksgiving Prayer" (1956) with Ron Hagerthy of Sky King.
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A host of groups and artists mainly from the United States, but also from Europe and Japan, "started to write mostly short instrumental pieces that focused on complexity and stripped down instrumentation, while avoiding the pomposity and stage props of the big progressive rock acts." Some groups, such as Thinking Plague and the Motor Totemist Guild, kept working with long durations and rich instrumentation but also forayed into free improvisation, sound collage, and other avant-garde techniques. These artists cumulated on record labels such as Cuneiform (United States), Recommended (later ReR Megacorp, England) and Rec Rec (Switzerland).
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Dulska in Court and by the 1909 satirical journal published in Krakow, Mrs. Dulska. As Polish stage writer Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński noted in 1932, she came to represent "a whole epoch". A new term arose in the Polish language: 'dulszczyna', which roughly translates to "Dulska-ness" and functions as "a catch-all for the litany of reprehensible qualities exhibited by bourgeois philistine Aniela Dulska: double standards, endemic conservatism, excessive self-delusion, poor social conscience, weakness of character, hypocrisy, xenophobia, penny-pinching, vanity, pomposity, crassness, lack of compassion, sadistic self-aggrandizement, and bad taste", as notes translator Teresa Murjas.
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Pushpabhadra Plates The first and second charters were composed by the same poet since they are couched in similar language and were issued by Dharma Pala (resplendent in the grandiosity and pomposity of usual titles). The Khonamukh charter was issued in the first year of his reign. The donee was Bhatta Mahabahu who was son of Vishnu and grandson of Ummoka and sprang from a Brahmin family, belonging to the Kashyapa gotra and the Kanva sakha of the Yajurveda and hailing from Madhya Desa. The charter at serial 2 was issued in the third regnal year.
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" Julian Benbow of The Boston Globe observed "an undeniable synergy that they embraced for this project." AllMusic editor Andy Kellman called it "an audacious spectacle of vacuous pomposity as well as one of tremendous lyrical depth." Slant Magazines Matthew Cole was less impressed, believing West had contributed a "powerhouse production" but that the album "requires you to tolerate the artists' self-mythologizing and put up with their sometimes awkward attempts at experimentation." Andy Gill of The Independent was more critical and found their rapping "pretty mediocre", partly because "too often here their complacent, back-slapping laxity leaves tracks floundering.
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He wrote a letter to his father that was a detailed account of a hurricane which had devastated Christiansted on August 30, 1772. Hugh Knox, a minister and journalist, published the letter in the Royal Danish-American Gazette. The biographer Ron Chernow found the letter astounding for two reasons; first, that "for all its bombastic excesses, it does seem wondrous [that a] self- educated clerk could write with such verve and gusto," and second, that a teenage boy produced an apocalyptic "fire-and-brimstone sermon" viewing the hurricane as a "divine rebuke to human vanity and pomposity."Chernow, p. 37.
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Captured during a raid on the trench, he is killed by Adolf Hitler with a grenade when he tries to escape. The Scholar- Joining Charley's platoon as a young private after the Somme, the Scholar, a gentle & timid book-worm, is bullied viciously by a burly veteran named Grogan. Charley steps in to help, leading to a fight in which Grogan is accidentally killed. The Scholar soon turns out to be a two- faced cunning snob who wrangles a transfer to officer training and he later returns as the platoon-commander who thinly conceals his fear behind his pomposity and petty resentment of Charley.
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E. J. Payne (Oxford, 1974), p. 21. Rather, they were merely sophists who, excelling in the art of beguiling the public, pursued their own selfish interests (such as professional advancement within the university system). Diatribes against the vacuity, dishonesty, pomposity, and self-interest of these contemporaries are to be found throughout Schopenhauer's published writings. The following passage is an example: Schopenhauer deemed Schelling the most talented of the three and wrote that he would recommend his "elucidatory paraphrase of the highly important doctrine of Kant" concerning the intelligible character, if he had been honest enough to admit he was parroting Kant, instead of hiding this relation in a cunning manner.
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A staunch champion of classicism in Russian literature, he favoured 'artiness' which many of his contemporaries ridiculed as lifeless pomposity, and was one of the major detractors of Alexander Griboyedov and his Woe from Wit.Кокошкин, Фёдор Фёдорович at the Russian Theatre Encyclopedia. Kokoshkin either tutored or provided crucial help for several future stars of the mid-19th century Russian theatre stars, including Mikhail Shchepkin and Sergey Shumsky. He avidly promoted the salon culture in Moscow, wrote plays for amateur performances, participated in them, and was the leader of an artistic group which included Mikhail Zagoskin, Mikhail Dmitriyev, Alexander Pisarev, Sergey Aksakov and Alexander Shakhovskoy.
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A Controversy on Colour, by John Hayter (1800–1891) showing from left to right Charles Hayter (father of John and George), John Hayter, Edwin Landseer and George Hayter (Shipley Art Gallery, UK) Returning to London in 1818, Hayter practised as a portrait painter in oils and history painter. Dubbed ‘The Phoenix’ by William Beckford, Hayter showed a pomposity that irritated his fellow artists, but he mixed freely with many aristocratic families. His unconventional domestic life (separated from his wife, yet living with his mistress) set him apart from official Academy circles: he was never elected to the Royal Academy. Venus, supported by Iris, complaining to Mars, by George Hayter.
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You also have a need for calm, serenity, and even a quality of voluptuousness connected with the contemplation of a work of art." Nicolai Ouroussoff, the architecture critic of The New York Times, admired the interior of the BCAM but was less impressed by the exteriors: "There is little of the formal freedom that is at the heart of the city's architectural legacy; nor is there much evidence of the structural refinement that we have come to expect in Mr. Piano's best work. The museum's monumental travertine form and lipstick-red exterior stairways are a curious mix of pomposity and pop-culture references. It's an architecture without conviction.
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Monicelli received two more Academy Award nominations with I compagni (The Organizer, 1963) and The Girl with the Pistol (1968). L'armata Brancaleone (For Love and Gold, 1966) is another masterpiece of Italian cinema. The film tells the tragicomic tale of a Middle Ages Italian knight, with uncertain nobility and few means but high ideals, self-confidence and pomposity (Vittorio Gassman). The bizarre Macaronic Latin-Italian dialogues were devised by Age & Scarpelli, the most renowned writers of Italian comedies, and represent a whole linguistic invention which was followed by Brancaleone alle Crociate (Brancaleone at the Crusades) in 1970, and less successfully in Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno.
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Anthony Standen (died 1993, age 86) was a respected chemist and entomologist who wrote the popular book Science is a Sacred Cow (1950)."Anthony Standen Is Dead at 86; Chemist Who Deflated Pomposity", Wolfgang Saxon, June 25, 1993, The New York Times He was born in 1906 to an American mother and a British father."Personal Survival:Do we live after death?" (pages 384-399), Biographical info and essay by Standen in The Spirit of Man: Great Stories and Experiences of Spiritual Crisis, Inspiration, and the Joy of Life, Whit Burnett (Ed.), Ayer Publishing, 1969, He was educated at Oxford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of New Hampshire.
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However, they were ill equipped to receive and entertain envoys with the pomposity needed in the seventeenth century to avoid offending foreign rulers. In practice, this was delegated to the court of the stadtholder of Holland, who also resided at The Hague. When no stadtholder was appointed, the grand pensionary received envoys. The Batavian Republic of 1795 first abolished the office but in the last year of the Batavian Commonwealth, 1805–1806, the title had to be reinstituted on orders of Napoleon as part of a number of measures to strengthen the executive power; Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck thus functioned for a short time as the last grand pensionary.
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Also known as Sammy or Samuel, Sam's patriotic spirit distinguishes him from the rest of the Muppet cast, as does his general stuffiness and pomposity. Because of this, it has been a running gag in either The Muppet Show, or Muppet movies, that represents his patriotism towards the United States. In The Muppet Christmas Carol, the fourth wall was broken when Sam (playing Scrooge's former headmaster) informs the young Scrooge that he will enjoy business because "It is the American way". The Great Gonzo, who plays Charles Dickens, as well as the narrator, corrects him and says that the line is, "It is the British way," since the story is set in the United Kingdom.
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Count Dmitry Ivanovich Khvostov (, – ), was a Russian poet, representing the late period of classicism in Russian literature. Count Khvostov, as he was widely known, was an exceedingly prolific author of poems, fables, epigrams, etc., invariably archaic and pompous, making him an easy target for humourists and fellow poets (Pushkin among them) who ridiculed him relentlessly. In modern times much has been done to separate the comical myth from Khvostov's real legacy (with some fake 'Khvostovism' exposed) and give credit to an extraordinary poetry enthusiast (who was also an avid literary researcher and archivist), but the stereotype prevails and the name of Count Khvostov remains synonymous in Russia with wanton graphomania and self-important pomposity.
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His surname derives from the Hebrew goren, "threshing floor", the Occitan for which is aire, as in his birthplace. He wrote a song dedicated to the citizens of Aire, recalling both the "lords who stand in the breach in times of her distress" and the Jewish intellectuals, but not referring to any exile. It probably therefore predates 1287, but it already demonstrates Isaac's penchant for pomposity: comparing Aire and Jerusalem, he suggests that the Messiah, if he knew that Isaac was born in Aire, would choose to be born there as well. In other poems, however, Isaac refers to Jerusalem by the poetic term golat Ariel ("exile of Ariel"), perhaps a play on "exile from Aire".
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Commenting on the episode 20 years later, former Governor-General Bill Hayden, himself from Queensland, spoke of "Whitlam's peremptory and justifiable dismissal of Queensland Governor Sir Colin Hannah". Hayden observed that, "Hannah's transgression was not so much that he suffered from an excessive notion of his own importance, which he did, but rather in the intemperate manner he assailed the national government at a public function in Brisbane. In doing that he soared dangerously above his natural level of pomposity." Following his succession in November 1975, Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser attempted to have the dormant commission reinstated, but the Queen – apparently following advice from the British government that cited Hannah's lack of impartiality – refused her assent.
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Tim Page (born October 11, 1954) is an American writer, music critic, editor, producer and professor who won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for his music criticism for The Washington Post. Anthony Tommasini, the chief music critic for The New York Times, has praised Page’s criticism for its "extensive knowledge of cultural history, especially literature; the instincts and news sense of a sharp beat reporter; the skills of a good storyteller; infectious inquisitiveness; immunity to dogma; and an always-running pomposity detector." Other notable writings by Page include his biography of the novelist Dawn Powell, which is credited for helping to spark the revival of Powell’s work, and a memoir that chronicles growing up with undiagnosed autism spectrum disorder.
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Zeng Fanzhi's artwork auction Mao's Song Poem of Snow, No.2 Zeng Fanzhi (; born 1964) is a contemporary Chinese artist based in Beijing. From the earliest stages of his career, his paintings have been marked by their emotional directness, the artist's intuitive psychological sense, and his carefully calibrated expressionistic technique. Moving to Beijing in the early 1990s, Zeng's art displayed an immediate shift, responding to his immersion in a more superficial environment, his seminal Mask series displaying the tensions between the artist's dominant existential concerns and an ironic treatment of the pomposity and posturing inherent to his new contemporary urban life. Throughout, Zeng's expressionistic techniques run counter to such techniques' conventional usage.
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Jones' performance as Edward R. Rooney in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) made him a cultural icon. Rooney, self-important and obsessed with catching the chronic truant Ferris Bueller, became a symbol of pomposity and authoritarian hatefulness. The New York Times review characterized Jones' performance as having "fine cartoon like ferocity", wherein his character "gets scratched, bitten, attacked by ferocious dogs and covered with mud while pursuing his weaker, but craftier prey, and emerges each time bruised but undaunted, thinking up some new (and futile) plan." The review likened Jones' role as akin to that of Wile E. Coyote as a character who is fated to be unable to catch The Road Runner (Ferris Bueller).
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The band garnered comparisons to artists such as The Locust, Melt-Banana, Animal Collective, The Faint, Nintendo soundtrack music, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Atari Teenage Riot, The Mae Shi, Lightning Bolt and The Pastels. They were described by Terrorizer magazine as "[e]ither a council estate Butthole Surfers or just Japanese mimicry... odd and wrong", and by Drowned in Sound as "a chiptune-gabba aerobics class soundtrack". The Wire called them "prog, of a sort... though with manic impatience in place of pomposity", while Fused Magazine described them as "[t]wo subterranean creatures dressed in primary school P.E. kits, complete with charcoal-stained eyes and badly-concealed erections, howl[ing] unintelligibly over spaz-core electronics". The Daily Telegraph said they were "absurdly-named".
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Gay announced his intention to create the "ballad opera" with the play. The music for the songs came from tunes already popular, and ten of the tunes were from the satirist Tom D'Urfey, whose Pills to Purge Melancholy was a collection of coarse, bawdy, and amusing songs on various topics. The ballad was associated with folk songs and folk poetry, and so Gay's choice of using ballads (although ballads written by a well-known author) for his music was itself an attempt to deflate the seeming pomposity and elitism of the opera. For most of the audience, the central entertainment of the opera was the love triangle between Macheath, Polly, and Lucy, but satirically, the centre of the opera was the Peachum/Macheath story.
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Charlie and Bergen were programmed opposite The Mercury Theatre on the Air on CBS, a struggling intellectual program helmed by Orson Welles. On October 30, 1938 many listeners fiddled with the dial during Nelson Eddy's musical interlude, intending to switch back for Charlie's next comedy spot, and stumbled on Welles' production of The War of the Worlds, engendering a panic. As later reported, noted critic and wit Alexander Woolcott sent the young Welles a telegram on the subject: "This only goes to prove, my beamish boy, that the intelligent people were all listening to the dummy, and that all the dummies were listening to you." Ironically, by 1944, Orson Welles had become a recurring guest, with the dummy puncturing the pomposity of the genius.
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One evening some of the English players, fed up with what they regarded as Baig's pomposity on the field and his bias in favour of Pakistan, kidnapped him, took him back to their hotel and tipped a bucket of water over him. The incident caused outrage in Pakistan and almost led to the abandonment of the tour, but diplomacy by the MCC president, Lord Alexander, and Iskander Mirza, the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan, smoothed things over sufficiently to allow the tour to continue.Peter Oborne, Wounded Tiger: The History of Cricket in Pakistan, Simon & Schuster, London, 2014, pp. 111-132. Peter Oborne, who has researched the incident, doubts if the suggestions of bias were valid.
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He was the pupil and successor of Gorgias and taught at Athens at the same time as Isocrates, to whom he was a rival and opponent. We possess two declamations under his name: On Sophists (Περὶ Σοφιστῶν), directed against Isocrates and setting forth the superiority of extempore over written speeches (a more recently discovered fragment of another speech against Isocrates is probably of later date); Odysseus (perhaps spurious)O'Sullivan 2008 in which Odysseus accuses Palamedes of treachery during the siege of Troy. According to Alcidamas, the highest aim of the orator was the power of speaking extempore on every conceivable subject. Aristotle (Rhet. iii. 3) criticizes his writings as characterized by pomposity of style and an extravagant use of poetical epithets and compounds and far- fetched metaphors.
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" Gilbert Cruz of Entertainment Weekly noted that "Colbert proves that the line between serious TV journalism and utter nonsense is a very thin one indeed." Heather Havrilesky of Salon was effusive, remarking, "Not only does Colbert maintain his persona without skipping a beat throughout the entire show, but he’s got great comic timing, the show’s writers are brilliant, and the whole thing is pure foolish, bizarre, idiotic fun." Barry Garron of The Hollywood Reporter dubbed it an "auspicious debut", writing, "The new show dovetails nicely with its lead-in to present a solid hour of skewered news and punctured pomposity." Variety Brian Lowry commented that the show had an "impressive start with a topnotch premiere followed by a respectable second outing.
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Johnson's Wax, which sponsored Fibber McGee & Molly, sponsored an audition recording for The Great Gildersleeve, and the Kraft Cheese Company signed on as the show's regular sponsor. Gildersleeve was transplanted from Wistful Vista to Summerfield with more than just a locale change—now a bachelor (his character had a never-heard wife on Fibber McGee & Molly), and now the water commissioner instead of the owner of the Gildersleeve's Girlish Girdles company. With much of his pomposity and cantankerousness toned down, he was also newly domesticated and appointed guardian of his orphan niece Marjorie and nephew Leroy. Implicitly well-off though by no means wealthy, Gildersleeve was depicted winding up his lingerie-making company and taking up a new life as Summerfield's water commissioner.
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The founder of the Pundits, as an undergraduate at Yale, was the illustrious William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943). Phelps went on to become essentially the leading Humanities scholar in the United States in his day, and an enormously admired professor at Yale. Billy Phelps was, in fact, the original prototype of the star professor, whose lectures were so witty, so brilliant, and entertaining, that attendance at his course became known as a not-to-be-missed feature of the Yale undergraduate experience.The Full Logo for the Pundits The Pundits doubtless did not originally hold naked parties, but contented themselves with assembling the wittiest and most brilliant members of the Senior Class for a weekly dinner, and participating in a series of elaborate pranks and lampoons intended to deflate pomposity and pretension among the student body.
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Graham was as a speaker exceedingly polished, but tended to pomposity, and carried the habit of quotation to inordinate lengths. His speeches were enlivened by epigrams and by passages of splendid rhetoric; but their construction was always artificial. He is remembered as an orator for a number of brilliant sayings rather than for any great speech. He never succeeded in getting outside himself and identifying himself with his audience. Similarly his political judgment was too much swayed by personal considerations, and he said of himself: ‘In a party sense it must be owned that mine has been a devious career.’ He was too self- conscious in all that he did to be a great statesman; but he was an impressive personality in the House of Commons, and was an able administrator.
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The National Geographic magazine's art department created "dazzlers" for use by its roving correspondents, including one which seemed to help get a photographer past customs officials in India in one incident in the early 1970s, when a clerk: :studies Steve's passport and Geographic ID card. he studies another document Steve has slipped before him — a letter addressed 'To Whom It Might Concern', explaining in ornate calligraphy the benevolent purposes of our mission, embossed with the seal of the National Geographic Society, and adorned with a blob of sealing wax holding a blue-and-white ribbon. This masterwork of pomposity, contrived by the magazine's art staff and designed to overwhelm the most paranoid official, is known in-house as a 'dazzler'. it is the ultimate weapon in the stalled staffer's arsenal.
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He soon acquired a reputation for abrasiveness; he explained in 2007 that his personality possesses "a tendency towards showmanship... towards self-indulgence and explosion and repartee and occasional silliness and going over the top." The Daily Mail gave him the sobriquet of "the rudest man in Britain", to which Starkey was said to have told friends, "Don’t worry darlings, it’s worth at least £100,000 a year", claiming that his character was part of a "convenient image". He once attacked George Austin, the Archdeacon of York, over "his fatness, his smugness, and his pomposity", but after a nine-year stint on the programme he left, citing his boredom with being "Dr Rude" and its move to an evening slot. From 1995 he also spent three years at Talk Radio UK, presenting Starkey on Saturday, later Starkey on Sunday.
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For German TV Lavers appeared in Rosamunde Pilcher: Entscheidung des Herzens (2009), and in 2012 he played the Dame in the pantomime Mother Goose at the Pavilion Theatre in Gorleston alongside his former Anglia television colleague Helen McDermott. In 2014 he appeared as the Invigilator in Doctors and in the same year he played King Pomposity in the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln, and Lyman Wyeth in Other Desert Cities at the English Theatre in Vienna. In 2016 he appeared in two television ads for Haribo. From March to May 2016 Lavers appeared in Les Blancs at the National TheatreLavers on the National Theatre website while in June 2016 he appeared with the Theatre Royal Summer Repertory Theatre in Windsor as Charlie Clench in One Man, Two Guvnors and Doctor Maurice Young in Deadly Nightcap.
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" Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote that it was "a soulless rehash...The movie isn't terrible; it's just low-rent and reductive." Joanne Kaufman of The Wall Street Journal added, "With all the shoot-outs, the screaming, the chases, collisions and fireballs, there isn't much time for storytelling." Manohla Dargis of The New York Times criticized the film, writing: "The latest and lamest version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers might have been an accidental camp classic if its politics weren't so abhorrent and the movie didn't try to hide its ineptitude behind a veil of pomposity." Paul Arendt of the BBC wrote: "Having established an effectively creepy mood in the first half, the film eventually degenerates into a muddled mess, with Nicole and Daniel Craig dodging zombies while popping amphetamines in a desperate effort to stay awake.
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Though Middleton was elderly and cautious, his response to the news of Duck Lake was swift and on the same day, he departed Winnipeg on a train bound for Qu'Appelle with a company of Manitoba militia. The major difficulty for Middleton was mobilizing the militia who had to travel from Ontario and Quebec on the partially completed Canadian Pacific Railway, requiring that the militiamen march through the snows and rocks of northern Ontario to reach Winnipeg. The Canadian historian Desmond Morton described Middleton as an experienced soldier who "mixed common sense and pomposity in equal measure", whose plan was to take Batoche, the capital of the Metis exovedate (council), which he predicated would end the rebellion. As the rebellion had shaken international confidence in the credit- worthiness of Canada, Middleton was under immense pressure from the Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, to end the rebellion as soon as possible.
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Although intended to create laughter, Ishar Singh’s compositions were not simply a form of idle and frivolous entertainment. Rather, they were intended as a satire on common social, cultural and religious values. Ishar Singh used his piercing wit to puncture the pomposity of the rich and powerful, and to expose popular prejudices and injustices, many of which had been entrenched in the Indian psyche for centuries. Ishar Singh in caricature on the front cover of Dhesh Bhagat Bhaiya His acute observations touched on every aspect of life, from the minutiae of family relationships to matters of grand theology. No subject was taboo for him, and many of his pronouncements might be considered too close to the bone in today’s more politically correct age. His creation ‘Bhaiya’ was the medium through which Ishar Singh attacked the various hypocrisies, superstitions and other absurdities he observed around him.
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In the tale, the main character Mucius, a Roman Christian, attempts to preach the Gospel amongst the Germani tribes, resulting in a battle very similar in tone to that of the Battle of the Marne, where Bertrand was wounded. The third story is the most bizarre, named "", it tells of a meeting in the garden of Candide between Achilles, Don Quixote, Faust, Mr Pickwick and the lead character of Bertrand's first novel L'Appel du sol. These fictional characters then discuss the previous work by Bertrand, and attempt to shape an ideal future for the war-ravaged world. The fourth story, "", is a more mainstream piece, in which several fables of La Fontaine are reworked to question the pomposity and arrogance of those in the French literary elite, especially Romain Rolland, who believed that art and literature should rise above the war rather than compromise themselves for it.
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However, he was himself frequently criticised for pomposity and hypocrisy when, for instance, he accepted an Order of Australia award in 2003 despite a long-held, vocal contempt for such honours."Sir Paddy" ABC Media Watch item, 10 February 2003 The day before his funeral, former prime minister Paul Keating, denigrated him as "a fraud and a liar"."McGuinness a fraud and a liar: Keating" The Australian, 31 January 2008 Keating had previously paid public tribute to McGuinness for contributing to his economic educationMcGuinness P. P. "Paddy has the last word on the vitriol of Paul Keating", The Australian, 1 February 2008 (reprint of an article dated 15 April 1989). Accessed 2 September 2016 but, after McGuinness became a frequent critic of Keating's government and persona, Keating described him as "a bloated cane toad","PM's blustering betokens self-doubt" Canberra Times, 12 December 1993, p.
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The purpose of Marianne in German propaganda was always to promote contempt for France and with it, a warning about what Germans should not be. The American historian Michael Nolan wrote in the "hyper-masculine world of Wilhelmine Germany" with its exaltation of militarism and masculine power, the very fact that Marianne was the symbol of the republic was used to argue that French men were effeminate and weak. In this regard, it is significant in German cartoons and posters, Marianne usually faced off against a male figure representing Germany, who was either a typical German soldier or Kaiser Wilhelm II himself and Marianne only very rarely took on Germania. In French cartoons and posters, it was Marianne who took on Wilhelm II, whose bombastic pomposity lent itself well for ridicule, and she almost never took on Deutscher Michel, leading Nolan to comment that French cartoonists missed a great chance for satire since even in Germany itself, Deutscher Michel is portrayed as rather "dim-witted".
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With Robert and Lindy Kenyon covering the business side and with funding by Hugh Hefner, the Batterberrys started publishing The International Review of Food and Wine in 1978, which had a prototype issue published in Playboy. Later renamed simply Food & Wine, the magazine's mission was to be a more down-to-earth alternative to Gourmet and its "truffled pomposity", with the goal of appealing to both women and men as readers, and early issues featuring articles by such non-traditional food writers as George Plimpton and Wilfrid Sheed. When it was first published, a senior editor of Gourmet magazine scoffed at the new alternative, saying "We don't look at the others as competition. They look at us, try to copy us and fail miserably". By 1980, when it was sold to American Express, the magazine had circulation of 250,000 per issue, evenly split by gender, and was distributing 900,000 copies a month as of 2009.
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Louisa Buck is the only daughter of the late Sir Antony Buck MP QC (1926-2003) by his first wife, Judy Grant, from whom he was divorced after 34 years. His marriage to his second wife, Spanish fashion designer, Bienvenida Pérez Blanco, who was 30 years younger than him, ended in scandal, when she admitted adultery with Sir Peter Harding, the British Chief of the Defence Staff, and sold her story to the News of the World for £150,000. Prior to this, Sir Antony had seemed "the epitome of middle-ranking orthodox Tory establishment achievement": he was Conservative Party MP for Colchester for 30 years, and under Edward Heath, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Royal Navy) (1972-74)."Sir Antony Buck", The Guardian, 11 October 2003 Retrieved 21 March 2006 Louisa Buck said at her father's remembrance service that he had a "lifelong loathing of pomposity, wicked irreverence and dogged loyalty, even when it was against his own interests".
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In my opinion, these columns are as important for what they reveal about the man and his approach to problem solving as they are for what they say about long-term survival. As Mel wrote on pages 122-123, "Most problems resolve themselves into self-evident solutions if you have enough reliable information and if you can eliminate emotion from the evaluation of it." Every problem that he encountered he approached with this attitude—be it field stripping a new gun for the first time, analyzing one of his favorite lyric poems or helping a friend in trouble. This method worked for him because he let neither pomposity nor pedantry warp his judgment; he was kind when the easy answer for someone with such quick wit would have been sarcasm and flippancy; and even when confronted with severe physical problems, he never lost the irreverent sense of humor that reminded him and those of us around him that we were, after all, merely human—flawed, funny creatures, but creatures who can think.
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"If I had a title I'd be on the board of directors at the bank!" he shouts at Sergeant Wilson when the latter gains a title in the episode "The Honourable Man". Despite his arrogance being encouraged by his status as the bank manager (having started as a clerk and working his way up to assistant chief clerk, chief clerk and eventually manager), Mainwaring reveals in the same episode that he considers it a mere "tinpot branch" and his career is at a seemingly permanent standstill, as revealed in A. Wilson (Manager)?: whenever he applies for promotions he is always turned down due to his unimpressive background. Mainwaring's pomposity and snobbery work against him, as he is frequently dependent on those in the Home Guard that he considers beneath him, such as Sergeant Wilson, his chief clerk at the bank with whom he shares an antagonistic friendship and Private Walker, a black-marketeer who interrupts during Mainwaring's lectures with a quip or a sly revelation that Mainwaring is benefiting from underhand deals.
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