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"pompous" Definitions
  1. showing that you think you are more important than other people, especially by using long and formal words
"pompous" Synonyms
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"pompous" Antonyms
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") to the pompous ("Am I certain this will happen?
He described Sir Kim as "wacky" and "a pompous fool".
And finally, "without meaning to sound pompous," it is art.
Residents of Chongqing accuse their Chengdu cousins of being pompous.
Trump has called Romney "pompous" and "a fool" on Twitter.
He was fun, he was boisterous, he was slightly pompous.
Jordan will clearly take a Chad-like role as pompous villain.
His private secretary, public school and Oxbridge, struck him as pompous.
" Peter: "I don't think that I am in any way pompous.
Jackson's campaign countered that Adams was an aristocrat, kingly and pompous.
Critics described him variously as pompous, sycophantic, unctuous, oleaginous and obsequious.
"I didn't want the house to be pompous," Mr. Solomon said.
The baron is often portrayed as a pompous, hefty, old fool.
"I don't want to look pompous, you know," Mr. Benson said.
"Museum art, it has that pompous feeling and attitude," he said.
He shares his wisdom but without any sort of pompous attitude.
"Our citizens are tired of the experienced, pompous, systemic politicians," he roared.
And the media here seems to me insufferably pompous and self-regarding.
This time around, the robotic Zuckerberg faces off against the pompous Musk.
Do you want a pompous braggart who doesn't know anything about diplomacy?
Why I hate it: It sounds silly, feels pompous and even precious.
Torture porn is one thing, pompous pretentious torture porn is something else.
Those whom the gods will mock, first they make pompous economic forecasters.
Defensive and often pompous, they veer between self-justification and glum resignation.
Abraham sometimes couldn't stand him, either—he found him pompous and arrogant.
He was pompous and pretentious, a smirk on his face the whole time.
Most brands are from fashion houses that are, by nature, pompous and melodramatic.
We hear these criticisms from the pompous pearl-clutchers of the international elite.
"I've gotten a little bit pompous," he joked about his new Hollywood style.
He is witty about the true English vice, which is pointless, pompous snobbery.
" Trump castigated Darroch, calling him a "very stupid guy" and a "pompous fool.
And last of all, remember: being proud of your achievements is not pompous.
So something that pompous and over-the-top is just begging for it.
"I don't want to bore people or be too pompous," Mr. Adrià said.
His Oxbridge courtliness had come to seem, rather than dignified, a bit pompous.
It is daring and beautiful, terrifying and pompous – and that's just the title sequence.
That Georgette was married to a pompous blowhard anchorman was also significant, of course.
The designer was not afraid of breaking the mould within often-pompous couture circles.
But we do it in this great setting with professional rather than pompous service.
He later described Darroch as "wacky", "a very stupid guy" and a "pompous fool".
The skyscraper was widely expected to be not unlike its owner, pompous and shoddy.
" Trump responded by bashing him as a "very stupid guy" and a "pompous fool.
Hollywood teems with pompous self-appointed kings ruling their fiefs as they see fit.
"  Trump responded by publicly calling Darroch a "very stupid guy" and a "pompous fool.
A Word With On Broadway, at least, everyone loves a pompous, thin-skinned autocrat.
"It has always been a pompous sport, a money sport," Ian Dujardin told me.
That, however, would serve no greater purpose than make me look like a pompous twit.
In his "Budgie" series, the yellow and green birds resemble the pompous busts of statesmen.
VICE: Your character in Lemon personifies that Hollywood stereotype of the pompous self-indulgent actor.
Even when Fred confronts him and calls him a "pompous ass," Cliff doesn't feel sorry.
She imagined it as a symbol of America's renunciation of conquest, empire, and pompous aristocracy.
They're every loud-talking, pompous, kleptomaniacal person you know, rolled into one admittedly stylish bird.
Then a pompous theater actor (Edward Norton) comes along and threatens to steal the show.
And the beauty of that, it didn't require any government, didn't require any pompous bureaucracy.
Mr. Nixon later referred to him as a "pompous egghead" and imposed import tariffs anyway.
Since starting his own brand, however, he has erred on the side of the pompous.
Mitt Romney (R-Utah) a "pompous 'ass'" and even taking aim at steadfast ally Sen.
Trump called Romney a "pompous ass," and implausibly suggested the Utah Republican should be impeached.
President Bartlet's speeches could be a little pompous (and long), but they were earnest and idealistic.
Elizabeth is acting pompous, prompting the Queen Mother to tell her to snap out of it.
CHRIS WALLACE: Do you have any problems with the president calling Mitt Romney a "pompous ass"?.
" The New York Times aired a pompous ad during the Oscars titled "The Truth is Hard.
King Lear is the basic structure, if that doesn't sound too pompous, but with magic wands.
He has his own YouTube pulpit, where he delivers pointy-headed, pompous lectures about the subject.
Such slogans festoon the brochures of European festivals, often amounting to little more than pompous afterthoughts.
" Prior to Darroch's resignation, Trump blasted the ambassador as "very stupid guy" and a "pompous fool.
Mr. Mandan cut an authoritative, blustering figure and was often cast as pompous businessmen like Chester.
I think the publishing world's obsession with New York City is pompous and a little smug.
I didn't want to come across as a pompous tourist, but I couldn't stand it anymore.
Groucho took on the pompous, the elitist, the self-satisfied and the oblivious (poor Margaret Dumont).
Despite this sparring, the pompous expression "cultural, religious and humanist inheritance" does actually correspond to something real.
One candidate rubbed me the wrong way, because though he was well-qualified, he was very pompous.
It would be so, so easy for it to disappear into a spiral of pompous self-regard.
"Then you got those pompous bastards over there wearing Make America Great Again hats," one voice says.
This season of menand militaries is a crusade—a nightmare of pompous menadhering to fire and women.
The capitalistic driven over-ticketing, pompous catering of favors and privileges," a "crotchless dot com midlife crisis.
Fair to say, also, that most of those members see Trump as an erratic, pompous, dangerous simpleton.
The Swedish Academy is indeed grand, pompous, larger than life – founded by king Gustav III in 1786.
No longer a dictator, he is a well-meaning but pompous honcho with a weakness for the limelight.
Mrs Lilian Beattie-Seaman has been described as a "ferociously pompous grande dame of absolutely the stiffest corset".
Her husband (Jean-François Balmer) is a pompous professorial type who festoons his speech with nonsensical Latin flourishes.
"I'm not quite pompous and narcissistic enough to say, 'Here is where bread is going,'" Mr. Myhrvold said.
His style is vigorous, intimate and formal too, when it needs to be, without being stiff or pompous.
Laughing at how stupid, pompous or corrupt they are doesn't seem to break the spell of their power.
Agathe alters her father's will so that her pompous, lackluster husband, whom she wants to divorce, gets nothing.
Stylistically, the "Observer" examined the American scene with plain phrases that echoed Twain as they skewered the pompous.
In comparison, Viola's widely acclaimed architectural-scale videos are the most pompous and boring works in the exhibition.
Plenty of the manifestos in Manifesto would sound pretty pompous if you closed your eyes and just listened.
Is it needlessly cynical to read a pompous celebrity's very bad novel purely in order to dunk on it?
After all, Rogers invented a hand puppet, King Friday the 13th, a pompous cartoon ruler of a fictional kingdom.
"He was looking aloof, a little bit holier-than-thou, and pompous," a former NBC executive told the outlet.
"The whole point was to be pompous and provocative, to prompt speculation and controversy," he told PEOPLE in 215.
Before you accuse me of being pompous, a quick bit of backstory: I got a 40th percentile PSAT score.
But it will likely inspire more pompous, sexist douchebags around the world to run for president—and probably win.
Trump aside, Dolnick isn't wrong that while talking in the third person seems pompous, it can offer psychological benefits.
The musician and fashion designer is reviled by some as a pompous, arrogant, "jackass," to quote President Barack Obama.
Conversely, some of the most disappointing wines of the world lack modesty and come off as pompous and vainglorious.
"There's an ease to the way he dresses — and an elegance, but it's not pompous or ostentatious," Hearst says.
"Carl is reactive, pompous, and makes everything about himself," Virgil Texas, one of Diggler's co-creators, said last Tuesday.
The court threw out the case because jokes about pompous, hypersensitive, orangutan-looking public figures are protected free speech.
To do all that while reframing the story as an antiracist pulp thriller, weighty without being pompous or exploitative.
Either you find the whole concept magnetic and thrilling, or you find it a little eye-rolly and pompous.
In an opening segment, Alec Baldwin—a regular Trump impersonator on "Saturday Night Live"—cameos as a pompous white supremacist.
The key single was pompous and ideal for blaring in every rock bar and for driving down the Sunset Strip.
I know that sounds really pompous, but I feel worried about how we're educating young women and that bothers me.
The word "filibuster" sounds silly, like the name of a pompous but ultimately well-meaning character in a Dickens novel.
"We will not allow US-UK relations to be endangered by some puffed up pompous popinjay in City Hall," he tweeted.
Osbourne, 66, will hit the stage with a rendition of Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" — pompous hair, white jumpsuit and all!
They are peep shows of morbid curiosity at best, and magnets for the most pompous type of ideological grandstanding at worst.
It's all part of the same attempt to understand the world and act in it, if that doesn't sound too pompous.
Rather than just a pompous paper, everybody has a cocktail party, they discuss, and then it goes in a drawer. Right?
Michael Ian Black, who gets a pretty decent story line in one of this season's early episodes, is pompous and annoying.
Perhaps unfairly, the pompous hypocrites get the headlines and often shape public attitudes about religion, but there's more to the picture.
Trump has recently traded barbs with Romney on Twitter, calling Romney a "pompous ass" who "choked" during the 2012 presidential election.
Journalists can get very pompous, especially in the formalized days of 'Meet the Press,' when they took themselves so damned seriously.
"We will not allow US-UK relations to be endangered by some puffed-up, pompous popinjay in City Hall," Johnson tweeted.
Trump's tweets calling Romney a "pompous 'ass'" and a "fool" are among his most intense personal attacks on a sitting Republican.
The process, known as proroguing, usually passes without much notice, except for the pompous rituals and antiquarian costumes that accompany it.
In the meeting with Putin, which was televised nationally, Kadyrov's blue nylon tracksuit set him apart amid the Kremlin's pompous formality.
But supporting a "bipartisan" solution will allow moderate Dems to write pompous op-eds in the big newspapers, which they treasure.
It was pompous and intellectually lazy, something I only realized after spending a long while researching writing about energy and technology issues.
Mitt Romney -- who he branded as a "pompous 'ass'" is underscoring the price Republicans will pay for rebuking the commander in chief.
In a tweet last year, the president called Romney a "pompous ass" after he criticized Trump for urging Ukraine to investigate Biden.
I recently emailed President Obama detailing my plans to put back up the HEX that says "Obama is a Pompous Dithering Bonehead".
In this telling, every shoddy narrative trope the stories employ, every pompous speech about deductive reasoning, is as insufferable as it seems.
During the first season, Lee Sizemore often bragged about his sophisticated storytelling, but in Shogun World, his pompous pontifications are laid bare.
Which, in my mind, I can read why people took that as some pompous thing, but it was my necessary survival instinct.
He apologises for sounding pompous, but promises that "if you want to improve the state of the world, chemistry can really help."
Trump responded by hammering Darroch as a "very stupid guy" and "pompous fool" and said he would "no longer deal" with him.
Oh, and she's joined by a rather sweaty Matthias Schoenaerts, a wickedly pompous Ralph Fiennes, and a brooding, scantily-clad Dakota Johnson.
Whatever this maudlin, vengeful, pompous, overwrought thing being reflected back at us is or is supposed to be, it surely isn't us.
But a group revolt — which many Trump critics have yearned for — could also come across to viewers as pompous and self-serving.
Another example — " stated otherwise": stated otherwise, when used at the beginning of a sentence, is a pompous version of in other words.
Of course, you're trying to be cooperative, essentially, but you walk away from that thinking, Jesus Christ what a pompous ass I am.
And while Gyllenhaal is trying something in his portrayal of pompous art critic Morf Vandewalt, the results are more head-scratching than compelling.
He eschews the pompous style of past leaders: in place of mega-rallies and podium speeches he prefers walkabouts and gatherings in cafés.
Clapper so pompous, so arrogant, this is so illegal he is actually bragging about surveilling an opposition party during a presidential election year.
But listening some weeks later, he and the producer agreed that take six was somewhat pompous and take eight rather jubilant and skittish.
" Incensed by this pompous chest-thumping, Paris pulled no punches: "These are the rantings of an immature child, not a true martial artist.
Mr. Stiers joined the cast of "M*A*S*H" in 22017, when Larry Linville, who had played the pompous and inept Maj.
"My specialty seems to be playing the loud, pompous, bombastic, verging-on-hysteria guy," Mr. Schramm told The Los Angeles Times in 1989.
The painting measures 8 by 19823 ½ inches, making many of the large Neo-Expressionist paintings done in these years look overblown and pompous.
The problem is that it makes rock itself (and jazz and punk and indie rock) seem cranky and pompous, not to mention defensive.
I could not believe the words that were coming out of his mouth and he was so arrogant and pompous about the whole thing.
In a pompous declaration-signing ceremony, Tidal made these stars co-owners in exchange for them giving it first crack at releasing their music.
Here, the interior resembled a pompous Sicilian pastry shop, boasting a well-polished wooden counter helmed by a kid with a thick Catanian accent.
That's precisely the response you'd expect from a smug, pompous law professor—an impression so spot on, in fact, as to seem quite deliberate.
He's rich, pompous, self-important, selfish, insufferable — but we'd be lying if we said that stopped us from falling head over heels for him.
In other hands, this material might have been the makings of a grand farce in which our callous, pompous protagonist gets his delicious comeuppance.
Hearing these exchanges between an imperious, autocratic ruler and a righteous, slightly pompous adviser delivered in blunt English made Monteverdi's characters seem eerily contemporary.
Because, due to people who may not be you, the show is now associated with sexism, Szechuan sauce, and being pompous about a cartoon.
They enjoy the ridiculous exaggerations and outright lies for the outrage they provoke in Democrats, liberals, intellectuals and pompous commentators of all political stripes.
Here we go again, with the unspoken predicates of a pompous duopoly that never directs words like "spoiler" or "siphon away" toward one another.
This supernatural satire takes us inside a pompous art scene in which the latest buzz surrounds the disturbing work of a recently deceased painter.
As the show's producers tried to figure out what the audience wanted, McCoy portrayed a pompous Doctor Who who further tanked the show's ratings.
If this is a painting about birth and death and everything in between, Bradford has dealt with a loaded subject without becoming pompous or overbearing.
" Another said that the story "had very little (if anything) to do with Christian and a whole lot to do with being pompous azzes [sic].
"I think too often in business we have these really pompous guys that think that business is about wearing the really cool suit," he says.
And here's, okay, another thing is — it's not meant to sound pompous — but I have heard over and over again that I'm an attractive person.
" *Pause* Jane: "The way that you've presented yourself, you have led us to believe that you are quite a sort of pompous human being. Sorry.
Shortly after the result was announced Mr Prayuth's government issued a pompous statement praising its own generosity for having offered Thais any say at all.
Unfortunately, Mr. Roth clogs the segment with a lot of ineffectual Godardian posturings and peoples it with a handful of pompous, affected graduate school types.
A corollary to Beckett's pompous Pozzo, he offers food and "salutations" and says "gosh golly gee" but soon reveals an angrier and even sinister aspect.
We're looking forward to seeing the pompous Gaston do his very best to charm Belle with his muscles and bouquets (only to be rebuffed, of course).
" Hunt was responding to Trump's latest attacks on May and Sir Kim Darroch, the U.K.'s ambassador to the U.S., whom Trump called a "pompous fool.
Jesus' people are collectively known as the Hilltop Colony, a relatively feeble bunch led by a pompous prig in a pretty old house on a hill.
" Following the leak, Trump, 73, called Darroch "a very stupid guy" and "a pompous fool" and said the White House would "no longer deal with him.
This, at least, is the opinion of Erik Finman, a 19-year-old Bitcoin investor fresh out of childhood and fresh into being pompous about cryptocurrency.
They have also been beloved as our stand-ins, infiltrating the stories we tell about ourselves, appearing as tricksters and fools, pompous kings and yearning commoners.
Edison's least favorite people were union leaders and pompous academics — the sort who'd never solved a technical problem or built anything of value with their hands.
Trump also argued on Saturday that asking China to investigate the Bidens "pertained to corruption, not politics," and called Romney a "pompous ass" for his criticism.
Nothing mars their idyll — not even pompous fellow tourists and overpriced booze — until they discover a girl who is being tyrannized in a nearby boarding school.
Will Elliot break barriers that until now have kept sleigh-driving jobs reserved for pompous jocks like D.J. (Chris Jacot), a son of Donner (John Cleese)?
Just as selfies can counter the stuffiness and formality of certain traditions of self-portraiture, the Museum of Selfies is a counterweight to pompous art museums.
Last summer, Futurama voice actor Billy West dubbed a series of the President-elect's more memorable tweets using the voice of his pompous D.O.O.P. General Zap Brannigan.
This pompous intellectual exists in a period a little before that of King George III, but in the grand scheme of history they aren't too far off.
It all plays into the very widespread perception that Duke basketball is a sanctimonious and pompous enterprise that loves to project a decidedly holier-than-thou vibe.
In three shows this week, he played a diverse gang of scene stealers, including a pompous Italian Player King and a sneering French maid out for revenge.
Last summer, Futurama voice actor Billy West dubbed a series of the president-elect's more memorable tweets using the voice of his pompous D.O.O.P. General Zap Brannigan.
In contrast, research showed that it was in fact Lauer who was leading to dips in ratings with what viewers saw as an "aloof" and "pompous" attitude.
Jaden Smith's character, a reenactment of his Twitter persona, coupled with Koenig's boring soliloquies, makes for a bad show that's too nonsensical and pompous to be enjoyable.
These I had revered at the time, until I began to find them pompous and uptight around the time of Y2K and the arrival of the euro.
It's funny to see powerful, pompous men deflated by being called sissies, and the insult has a kernel of truth, since they do talk for a living.
" And the host, known for her direct and candid approach, says of her achievements, "it sounds pompous, but I always believed that I would be really successful.
Loud-talking, pompous, kleptomaniacal birds They were first named by explorer George Wilhelm Steller in 1714, who spotted them while shipwrecked in what is now called Alaska.
One of her male colleagues — a pompous Morehouse graduate — talks over her in a meeting before she can share her own ideas, and it bruises her ego.
His appointment to the OfS is the worst example of the U.K.'s slide towards a small-minded conservatism that belittles the vulnerable while rewarding the pompous.
So when a pompous psychologist (Paul Giamatti) arrives to evaluate Morgan's mental state, his techniques are so pleasurably over the top that I wished he'd stuck around.
"There's the pompous use of initials, the generic use of 'Best,' and the absence of a sign-off entirely, which is just kind of rude," she says.
The book's fictional author is a pompous sociologist who believes absolutely in the meritocratic system, which has produced an elite "more brilliant" than any in the past.
But he appeared unrepentant after his dismissal on Thursday, describing the BBC's phone call to inform him of the decision as "a masterclass of pompous faux-gravity."
Mr. Garaio Esnaola's choreography puts a powerful contemporary spin on Molière's comedy, which tells of a pompous, bourgeois gentleman who longs to be accepted by the aristocracy.
He paired with George Carlin, was the pompous half of a memorable comedy team with Avery Schreiber and had a second career as a producer and writer.
The remains of hundreds of thousands of Civil War victims sat in mass graves and unmarked tombs, while the dictator remained in his own pompous burial place.
Gore, he never questions Bush's legitimacy or lets up on the unappetizing aspects of his opponent, from Gore's inclination toward "résumé enhancement" to his pompous debating demeanor.
Mitt Romney a "pompous ass" after the Utah Republican denounced Trump's public statements seeking help from Ukraine and China to investigate Joe Biden, a top 2020 rival.
On "You're the Worst," which just aired its finale (so yes, spoilers follow), Geere played Jimmy Shive-Overly, a pompous English novelist with bone-deep daddy issues.
In Davos this year, Trudeau wore burgundy socks with little green skulls on them, bringing a witty fashion moment to the frequently pompous discussion at the Swiss resort.
The results from Time's survey doesn't tell us everything, but it does deliver ammo for your pompous Gryffindor friend who can't believe you're happy to be a Hufflepuff.
Mitt Romney (R-UT) over the course of several hours on Saturday, deeming him a "a pompous 'ass'" and even calling on Twitter for him to be impeached.
Which, of course, prompted Trump to respond -- calling the Utah Republican a "pompous ass" who had been "begging" to be his secretary of state when Trump took office.
After all, Macron has long been derided for his love of pompous allegories and unnecessarily flowery language -- and France isn't exactly known for its restraint in that area.
Well-dressed, pompous Leon buys a Ferrari and pays a barbershop quartet to go around singing insults to all the venture capitalists who refused to back Cat Factory.
It would be nice to think that the media could somehow relinquish its pompous air of self-regard and lay into the Trump administration with Seventies-era gusto.
President Donald Trump lashed out against Mitt Romney in Saturday morning tweets that called him a "pompous 'ass'" and suggesting that he "choked" during the 2012 presidential elections.
River is something of a stereotype, but that stereotype is one of Ms. Rose's targets, along with pompous artists, weed aficionados, self-denigrating 40-somethings and gusbandry itself.
"Patrick wanted to interpret this very pompous stuck-up character and try to bring out the humor of what an exaggeration his character would be,"de Obeso said.
He's never been shy about voicing his dislike for the tone of the event, and noted again this week that there's a fine line between pomp and pompous.
The walls are crowded with portraits of pompous-looking men in uniforms, the forebears of the princess's husband, the field marshal, who is away for a military campaign.
Brexit advocates, like Iain Duncan Smith and John Redwood, dismissed Mr. Rogers's email as pompous and whiny and pressed for a known Brexiter to replace him in Brussels.
Every scrap of land was covered in vines, and at every turn there was another pompous chateau trumpeting its existence with tall gates, formal parterres or Palladian columns.
He also becomes a handful of incidental characters — a pompous professor, a vulgar businessman — who fill out this acute portrait of a not-altogether-lost segment of Brooklyn life.
The trio traveled to forgotten corners of the US and met porn stars, pot heads, Creationist scientists, an African king, and a few pompous presidential candidates along the way.
An origins story at heart, it sees Strange as a Stark-esque pompous jackass who finds personal redemption and gains untold powers through the teachings of the Ancient One.
They've never had trouble kicking up drama even in the most privileged of circumstances, and their pompous antics combined with heartfelt moments is why we couldn't stop tuning in.
The trio travels to forgotten corners of the US and meets porn stars, pot heads, Creationist scientists, an African king, and a few pompous presidential candidates along the way.
I even flicked off several of the Republican committee members in the privacy of my home to relieve my mounting anger and frustration over the pompous hypocrisy on display.
The single copies were typically acquired in quires (sheets) and bound by their owners (invariably male) defining them as personal property, something certified by a pompous "ex libris" bookplate.
" In a fantasy showdown with a boisterously pompous academic waiting in line for a movie, Allen's character, overhearing his jag, confronts him: "Aren't you ashamed to pontificate like that?
It's crowded with noble, villainous and comical characters: police spies and magistrates; radical firebrands and anxious liberals; pompous officials and plain-spoken workers; servants, tradesman, gossips, thugs and children.
We've caught a glimpse of Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens as The Beast, Ewan McGregor as a much-less-cartoonish Lumière, and British actor Luke Evans as the infamously pompous Gaston.
"Matt said that he wanted to be a pompous wizard, and Adal said he'd be a shape-shifter who changed shape based on who he had sex with," says Niekamp.
Or, do you just tell yourself, OK, so they are pompous assholes, but they might also be a really good table because you know they have the money to spend.
There is nothing pompous or pallid about his prose, which makes it all the odder that so much of the music that he wrote seems to have no other qualities.
Rafe Khatchadorian (an affable Griffin Gluck), booted out of two educational institutions, is now enrolled at Hills Village Middle School, dominated by the pompous, rules-obsessed Principal Dwight (Andy Daly).
"The wacky Ambassador that the UK foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy," he tweeted, describing Darroch as a "pompous fool".
He later branded May "foolish" for not following his advice on Brexit negotiations with the European Union and described Darroch as "wacky", "a very stupid guy" and a "pompous fool".
He was, by his own admission, a pretty awful candidate—awkward, pompous, long-winded, and lacking a gift for the sound bite, which has since leavened his geeky public persona.
But the movie is also a hall of mirrors, with Welles playing "Orson Welles" — at once pompous and self-deprecating, a celluloid Santa Claus with a full bag of tricks.
"The wacky Ambassador that the UK foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy," Trump wrote, describing Darroch as a "pompous fool".
Then I wondered how he would stack up against Mr. Trump one on one: Would Americans appreciate Pete's depth and calm or rally to re-elect the pompous bully Trump?
The show loves to puff up and then dismantle pompous, morally corrupt men: Previously it was the racist, authoritarian Governor Royce of Michigan; this week, it's the skeevy Senator Hazleton.
In the first episode of Slings & Arrows, Oliver Welles (Stephen Ouimette), the stuffy and pompous head of the New Burbage Theater Festival, gets hit by a ham truck and dies.
Agent Peter Strzok, a personification of the righteous left thinking they know better than the rest of us was a composite of pompous arrogant, indignant, sarcastic, smug, condescending, defiant and unapologetic.
We have so many highlights to bring you tonight, including the worst moments from the very short tempered, extremely pompous Rod Rosenstein, who I&aposm told who doesn&apost like me.
This under-planned, poorly executed, elementary level artwork that uses Black women and men as props and controversy starters is over-intellectualized by classist, utterly inept, pompous, and clueless curator types.
But the benefit of The Brink is how clearly it shows that Bannon's understanding of the world, while destructive and pompous, may be winning in some places but losing in others.
If only I had wept from the eyes instead, my streaming face would have matched the setting—big and pompous mausoleums, tiny headstones reading only "mother"—and the work at hand.
Gendry's story, leading up to this point, has been searching for his place and his purpose in this slightly pompous world, and I think he finally got it, to an extent.
Our president embraces pompous certitude as a sign of strength and scorns modesty (and/or humility) as a manifest weakness within himself and his adversaries and most probably among his advisers.
"These guys [in tech] were just pompous blowhards back then, and now ..."  "They moved fast and they broke things," says Berg, who often finishes Judge's sentences, referencing Facebook's infamous early slogan.
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.
" Baker responded defiantly to the decision, saying on Twitter that the calls for his dismissal were a "masterclass in pompous faux-gravity" and that the BBC "literally threw me under the bus.
We must eradicate the ignorant, pompous gaze that so many direct at the Caribbean, especially by those incapable of naming the islands, the languages they speak, or locating them on a map.
But he's probably best-known these days for logging onto Twitter and saying things like this: This post perfectly encapsulates Chu's online presence: pompous woke posturing mixed with a baffling non-sequitur.
It was the tournament of a high-handed monarch, the cup of a republican president, the one-time kickabout of Spain's socialist militias and the long-time plaything of a pompous totalitarian.
I don't want to be the pompous joke police any more than I want to come across like a "low-level secret policeman in a new totalitarian state," as Roiphe put it.
Claire can't even go for a pee without stumbling upon the body of a slain Highlander, and Prince Charles' advisors are calling each other "pompous toe rags" as they bicker about strategy.
Team Sky was founded in 2009 on the pompous premise that the organization had a zero tolerance for performance-enhancing drug use and that it would fire anyone with a doping past.
If you only know the Bible vaguely, this litany of names probably sounds a bit pompous, an attempt to elevate the infant Jesus by linking him to great patriarchs and noble kings.
Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" (1940) turned Hitler — thinly disguised as Adenoid Hynkel, dictator of Tomania — into a blustering, pompous clown, surrounded by snakes and toadies, drunk on ugly fantasies of world conquest.
So I allowed myself to give a pompous little lecture about all the thousands of people dying of influenza — and the thousands more who will die before the flu season is over.
But as he enters his fourth year in office, facing re-election in the fall, Mayor Bill de Blasio has seemed to declare an unofficial end to the most pompous of rites.
On the other hand, the Gerhard Richter painting "Skull" (1983) penetrates any such lightweight social masks and turns the world upside down, into a slapstick spectacle of pompous posturing and neurotic defensiveness.
But unlike the original, which was an actually-funny satire of the pompous fashion industry circa 2001, the sequel is bafflingly unsavvy with its jokes about gadgets, social media, and even selfie sticks.
Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said it was "wrong and appalling" for Trump to suggest Ukraine and China investigate Joe Biden, Trump unloaded, calling Romney a "pompous ass" and suggesting Romney himself be impeached.
Perhaps moving Britain's cockpit from the pompous, forbidding, Oxbridge-college air of Westminster to these airy Victorian temples of manufacturing and entrepreneurial ingenuity would improve politics: making it more optimistic, accessible and ambitious.
Their reception has usually been… not great, with adjectives like "pompous" and "meandering" being tossed around (Portishead might be the only ones who got away with it.) This, frankly, is kind of horseshit.
Robert Osborne, superbly cast as the pompous Baron Peel, narrates the dissection, as his assistant (Timur) extracts the internal organs from her body and vigorously saws them open, his hands running with blood.
All of this might remind "Seinfeld" fans of the episode in which Elaine's boss, the pompous J. Peterman, has purchased (for $29,000) a piece of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's wedding cake.
When Review debuted in 2014, it was pitched as a parody of a "critic's corner" kind of show, hosted by a pompous TV personality who reports on and rate his own life-experiences.
Everybody mocked him as he expounded on the virtues of a single vehicle transporting multiple people along a fixed route making pre-determined stops, sounding like stuffy, pompous Valley prick in the process.
They had a lot to do with the approach to art making I brought to music: doing it yourself rather than sending it out to some obnoxious, pompous, deluded, self-important uptown publisher.
The second act begins with a 21st-century, Davos-style symposium, in which various world titans of industry — including a pompous descendant of Jim Trewitt (Richard Poe) — defend the right to be rich.
She added that the revolt against the lurid stripes was the work of "pompous idiots" who resented her wealth and who wrongly feared that the audaciously painted house would bring down property prices.
The comic book creator of Thanos has called the US President a "pompous fool" after one of his team&aposs Twitter accounts shared a video of the president as the Marvel mega-villain.
King of Cards stars the humorously pompous King Knight, and just like the other three Shovel Knight campaigns, he has a unique mechanic and play style that the whole game is built around.
Trump recently called him a "pompous 'ass' who has been fighting me from the beginning," a gesture that may not promote loyalty from Romney who not long ago was his party's presidential nominee.
Critics take a less benign view, seeing him as a destructive force, a pompous and partisan figure in a job that requires strict neutrality, and so nothing less than a menace to parliamentary democracy.
But they were still killing it on 2016's We Disappear, an album that didn't get nearly enough credit for trying to parse our techno-nightmare present without coming across as pompous or annoying.
You move your head around to whack the ball back to your opponent, adding some spin by hitting it on an angle, or some more power by thrusting your neck like a pompous rooster.
"Our streets are safe no more!" one pompous politician declares, and there appears to be little Absalom Breakspear (Jared Harris), current head of the Burgue's Parliament-style government, can do to appease the opposition.
The comic book creator of Thanos has called US President Donald Trump a "pompous fool" after one of his team&aposs Twitter accounts shared a video of the president as the Marvel mega-villain.
As for the guys, they're either ineffectual head-in-the-sand types like Neil and Luke (Maurice Jones), Linda's New Agey co-worker, or pompous and predatory, like Dave (John C. Vennema), Linda's boss.
Look I know the media loves for Republicans to criticize each other," Stewart began, prompting host Chris Wallace to jump in and point out that "it's the president who called Mitt Romney a pompous ass!
But the protest against NATO "stealing Serbia's sovereignty," complete with flamboyant Russian flags, pompous photos of Putin, and a march toward the Russian embassy in Belgrade, separates Serbia from other opponents of the military machine.
The Kalanick-esque, pompous, white party boy image is something Summit, too, is seeking to distance itself from in its attempts to improve (and emphasize in its lineup and promotional materials) gender and racial representation.
While Longchamp was fiercely loyal to Richard, he wasn't exactly brilliant at making himself popular among the people, who regarded him as arrogant, pompous and cruel — mainly because he was French and massively anti-English.
At the end of "Burn After Reading," the pompous, alcoholic C.I.A.-agent character Ozzie Cox, played with urbane self-delusion by John Malkovich, confronts one of the civilians he believes has tormented and blackmailed him.
The theater is not too far from the house Ms. Ivins grew up in posh River Oaks, where she learned the art of skewering the pompous and wrongheaded during dinner table arguments with her daddy.
President Donald Trump on Saturday called U.S. Senator Mitt Romney a "pompous ass" after his sharp critique of the president's push for other nations to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic political rival.
Most of the people who are getting awards tonight were not born and a couple are two or three years old — so it's incredible that her message, if that's not too pompous a word, continues.
Mr. Thompson, whose colorful résumé also included stints playing bass harmonica with Jerry Murad's Harmonicats, was well known to casino, cruise ship and television audiences as the Great Tomsoni, a pompous caricature of a magician.
As such, they are badass noise models for a less pompous, machine-addicted contemporary world, one that has the capacity to escape the structures of the slick cyber machine's endless cycles of creation and dissemination.
For Independence Day, he replaced the traditional Soviet-style military parade of soldiers and tanks and missile launchers, which he called "pompous and expensive," with the March of Dignity, featuring schoolteachers, doctors, social workers, and athletes.
He's pompous, humorless, ruthless, a toady and a bully both, unreasonably convinced of his own brilliance—one of those insufferable people who thrive in life because they don't know or care what others think of them.
" He could be pompous, writing to the general's aide-de-camp that he wanted a medal: "I am possessed of a keen idea to mount the ribbon on my breast while I face the Dervishes here.
President Trump referred to Mitt Romney as a "pompous ass" on Saturday in response to the Republican senator's criticism of Trump for his "brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine" to investigate the Bidens.
Fry's triumph is in striking and maintaining exactly the right tone for the narrations, all, with a handful of exceptions, in the comfortable, slightly pompous voice of Dr. James Watson, Boswell to the great man's Johnson.
The conventions are in plain view — the pompous provincials who make Magellan's life difficult; the eager sergeant who's practically a member of the family — but if they're to your taste, you won't find them better executed.
When you enter this great building, if we compare it to a building, not through this pompous entrance but with something clearly more lyrical and less blaring, it obviously casts a different shadow on what follows.
We are doing something historically unprecedented, we are very deliberately — and with this, again, the kind of pompous moralizing that you so correctly caught in so many other instances — doing our best to asphyxiate this growth.
Even in Rome, the innovative energy generated by Annibale Carracci and Caravaggio earlier in the century was dissipating; in Florence, painting had calcified into a pompous, idealized naturalism that relied heavily on lush flesh and plentiful drapery.
As a man and a player, few were tougher, but no one would have ever called him 'macho,' at least not in the pompous, braggartly way that a lot of other '60s and '70s uber-athletes were.
After patiently enduring my pompous monologue, De Niro — who had been quietly inspecting my work — made it clear that he was unimpressed by my attempt to justify my work by connecting it to that of famous artists.
One hesitates to sound like Jeff Daniels's pompous character in "The Squid and the Whale" and categorize "Manhunt" as "minor Woo," but it's undeniable that "Manhunt" delivers first-rate cinematic technique while skimping on substantial emotional investment.
International plaudits and a few controversies followed in the second half of the '70s.. Jones co-directed the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" with Terry Gilliam in 1975, also starring as pompous knight Sir Bedevere.
Now confined to a mental hospital under the care of its pompous head psychiatrist, Jackson, motivated to offer up a complex and self-serving account of how he was driven to murder, has recorded an incomplete confession.
"Pompous right-wing political chest-thumping, and an unwillingness to listen on matters like climate change or racism, has contributed to a perception by millions that Christianity is irrelevant, or worse yet, a threat to progress," the Rev.
The early days are fraught with tension between the two, and Martin is especially curmudgeonly—but he eventually warms up to his new situation, even if he never stops teasing his effete sons for their generally pompous nerdassery.
It might be a bit much to say that Christie is good at it; he's fundamentally too pompous to be very interesting, and he doesn't really know that much about the things he so righteously holds forth about.
It's a haughty, pompous word – the historical language of Ancient Rome is the preferred dialect of Oxbridge students who have their perfectly angled cheek-bones up their ass – yet it's important because there is arguably no linguistic equivalent.
Johnson on Tuesday refused to say he should remain in post, after the US president tweeted a series of attacks on Darroch as "pompous," and "stupid" and declared that the White House would no longer work with him.
Trump responded in Saturday morning tweets by writing that Romney is a "pompous 'ass'," suggesting he "begged" for the president's endorsement, and saying he "choked" during the 2012 presidential election when President Barack Obama won his second term.
Dr. James Mantleray (a wonderfully pompous Justin Theroux, in a Warhol moptop) has a long-simmering resentment of his mother, Greta (Sally Field), a best-selling pop-psych author, and he's channeled his issues into his anthropomorphized computer.
In Twelfth Night, the pompous butler Malvolio (think of Zazu from The Lion King and you've got the idea) is given a letter that he thinks is from the lady of the house, declaring her love for him.
Yuja speaks in fluent—more than fluent—English, punctuated by laughter that gives one to understand that what she is saying is not to be taken too seriously, and that she is not a pompous or pretentious person.
Yes, this is the story of a pompous man who falls from grace, is given a great gift, reevaluates his life, and becomes a hero (or maybe a supervillain, if you cock your head a little to the left).
When Ratchet (voiced by James Arnold Taylor) succeeds in entering the ranks of the Rangers, he finds that the vain bluster of their leader, Captain Qwark (Jim Ward, reproducing Patrick Warburton's pompous shtick in "The Tick"), to be hollow.
Lewis dismisses most of the other candidates for the 1944 nomination with an adjective or two apiece—"neat little Dewey, rigid Taft, pompous Vandenberg, precocious Stassen"—but the Old Guard was determined to serve up its own unappetizing fare.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a cultural fixture; you can find him on the talk show circuit, geeking out over "Titanic" and "Game of Thrones" and clapping back on Twitter, where imitators have poked fun at his enjoyably pompous manner.
At the other end of the spectrum of pain and pleasure is Olivia's Puritanical steward, Malvolio (Andrew Kober, gleefully resurrecting the antic, pompous spirit of the young John Cleese.) Weaving among them all is the canny, accordion-playing Feste.
In July a British newspaper, the Mail on Sunday, revealed critical assessments of Mr Trump in the dispatches of Sir Kim (now Lord) Darroch, Britain's ambassador to Washington; Mr Trump responded by calling him "wacky" and a "pompous fool".
In the worst, it is Aaron Sorkin capping off a career dedicated to valorizing a succession of increasingly pompous fictional assholes by writing "nonfiction" screenplays about real-life assholes, every one of which might well be titled You Jealous?
People with "grandiose" narcissism -- defined in the dictionary as "pompous superiority or pretentiousness" may achieve mental toughness, a form of resilience that could be protective, said lead author Kostas Papageorgiou, an assistant professor of psychology at Queen's University in Belfast.
After several months of measured engagement with the world, North Korea reverted to its pompous toddler bluster Monday, amid growing uncertainty around next month's summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. Pyongyang lashed out at the South Korea–U.
At the center of all that attention was his empire, which is 13 feet under this parking lot—a palatial space adorned with glittering chandeliers and pompous, rococo furniture that looks like it's been stolen from an opera house's prop department.
He told The Atlantic that after he characterized Trump's phone call with Ukraine as "wrong and appalling" and Trump then called him a "pompous ass" on Twitter, he chose to spend time with his family picking apples instead of engaging.
Bana has been stuck in grim, humorless roles for most of his career, but he excels here as the kind of merciless egotist Gervais loves to write: the pompous alpha male whose cruelty and self-interest are entertainingly pure and uncompromised.
Engaging on a factual level about the roots of gun violence in America is a losing game for conservatives, so the only course of action is to vacillate between pompous rhetoric about the Second Amendment and slandering anyone who might disagree.
Jack Burns, who found fame as the hilariously pompous half of Burns and Schreiber, one of the best-known comedy teams of the 290s and '21976s, then made another mark as a television writer, died on Monday in Toluca Lake, Calif.
The fiasco was captured this week when that pompous and pitiful British nationalist, Nigel Farage, waved a miniature Union Jack in the European Parliament as he bid farewell and was cut off by the vice-president of the Parliament, Mairead McGuinness.
Over the weekend, Trump called the Utah senator a "pompous 'ass,'" who is "so bad for Rs." The president added that Romney was "playing right into the hands" of Democrats and tweeted out a video of him losing the 2012 election.
The writer-director Dan Gilroy makes the film's contempt for the contemporary art world crystal clear from the outset, but puts Morf in an interesting position: As insufferable and pompous as he is, he has his own can't-be-bought integrity.
The president has spent two days obsessively tweeting about Darroch, claiming he doesn't even know him, that the Brit is a "very stupid guy" and a "pompous fool" and — most astoundingly — insisting the U.S. will no longer deal with Darroch.
"The exchange came after the president escalated a diplomatic row with the UK on Tuesday, calling Prime Minister May's handling of Brexit "foolish" and a "disaster," and launching a new attack on Darroch, labeling him a "very stupid guy" and a "pompous fool.
A year ago few people imagined that the legions of Britons who love to whinge about the European Union—silly regulations, bloated budgets and pompous bureaucrats—would actually vote to leave the club of countries that buy nearly half of Britain's exports.
I will remember especially his Cecil Vyse, the pompous, pince-nezed aesthete wrongly engaged to Lucy Honeychurch in "A Room With a View," the Merchant Ivory adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, and the vulnerability he found in a comic and deeply coded character.
Using their typical put-down zingers, German media called out Macron's "pompous grandstanding" on Europe's renewal during his excellent speech in Athens on September 5 from the hill of Pnyx, the birthplace of Western democracy, where ancient Greeks gathered to discuss public policies.
President Trump responded by describing Mr. Darroch as "wacky," a "very stupid guy" and a "pompous fool," while adding that Theresa May, who was prime minister at the time, was "foolish" for ignoring his advice on Britain's exit from the European Union.
" Like messages placed in bottles tossed into the sea, witness testimonies count on someone, somewhere, being there to read their words — even if it's the pompous, myopic Gileadean scholars who narrate the satirical epilogues to both "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Testaments.
It's Tad O'Malley, a pompous, rightwing, hands-off-our-guns fear monger who drinks champagne while riding around in a bulletproof limo — this was reportedly written before our current election cycle — played brilliantly by Joel McHale (who basically just acts like Joel McHale).
Then Prokhorov, after staging an entertaining show designed to launch a war with the Knicks for the hearts and minds of basketball New York, pretty much left the deliverance of his bold (or pompous) promise of a title to the imagination and execution of King.
Lord D'Ezekial; the buxom heartiness of Lady Hyacinth; the pompous grumpiness of the reigning Lord Adalbert; the tallyho perkiness of the bright-eyed beekeeper Henry (spinning forth hilarious yet never vulgar double-entendres in a mock-homoerotic duet with Monty, "Better With a Man").
Self-serious and prone to pompous commentary (she describes a paperback she's reading as "arrestingly undissembling"), she also possesses an arrogant insecurity that leads her, when Archer asks her to ghostwrite various things for him, to interpret the request as proof of her latent genius.
But the book doesn't tell us if the populists are able to prove its writer wrong by making their revolt "effective" — if they're able to take power as well as instigate violence, and if they can actually govern once they've overthrown the pompous mandarins.
It features a hilariously pompous speaker, John Bercow — "It is a point so blindingly obvious that only an extraordinarily clever and sophisticated person could fail to grasp it," he once chided a member — and a braying, mooing barnyard symphony of partisan heckling noises. Mrs.
Under the direction of Jessica Lazar, the rendering of his stories, including several lesser-known ones and two incomparable classics, brings out their most accessibly theatrical elements — the Oscar Wilde-esque epigrams and the comic grotesqueness of pompous members of the aristocracy and haute bourgeoisie.
City's fans have long booed the pompous anthem that blares out at the start of Champions League games — something that predates the current investigation — but, when it next plays at the Etihad before the visit of Real Madrid next month, expect a torrent of hostility.
" Mr. Bloom was writing about administrators' reaction to student radicals in the 1960s, but he might as well be writing about Evergreen: "A few students discovered that pompous teachers who catechized them about academic freedom could, with a little shove, be made into dancing bears.
Trump slammed Romney on Twitter over the weekend as "a fool" and "a pompous 'ass'", adding the hashtag "#IMPEACHMITTROMNEY" after the Republican senator criticized the president's calls for Ukraine and China to investigate Biden, one of his political rivals in the 2020 presidential race.
The character is preposterously pompous — the kind of guy who tells his entire family to "eat shit" — but at times Evans' killer blue eyes and razor sharp jawline manage to cut through Ransom's insufferable attitude and make a strong, albeit shameful, case for attraction.
" By Tuesday, Trump seemed even more angry, tweeting: "The wacky Ambassador that the U.K. foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy.... I don't know the Ambassador but have been told he is a pompous fool.
Neither company currently uses equipment from those companies, and with a new executive order likely on its way from the White House that would ban the use of it across the board, it appears like a pompous promise that was unnecessary to make in the first place.
On top of that, it's just a nonstop agony machine, full of bad news, and populated by pompous blowhards who are deluded by the social media reinforcement feedback loop into thinking that the world wants to hear their opinions about every fart that escapes in the atmosphere.
I've always sought out work that reflects very much, not to be pompous about it, but the human condition, what we go through as human beings as we go along through life, and to try and get as close to that feeling as possible and not playact.
These books range from the cheeky fun of Colette's Break of Day (1928) to Simone de Beauvoir's pompous but elegant Force of Circumstance (1963), a book full of derisive portraits of men still desperate to find themselves, while she sits pretty in her hard-won self-awareness.
"After my initial feeling of being violated, seeing that pompous fool using my creation to stroke his infantile ego, it finally struck me that the leader of my country and the free world actually enjoys comparing himself to a mass murderer," Jim Starlin told The Hollywood Reporter.
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Even the name—"life coaches"—makes it sound like you're going to be stuck with people who soar through life with the pompous assumption that they are so competent at the game of life they're entitled to take vast sums of money to help people with their own.
It's a capricious position, sure, but then most writers live lives about so sheltered and purposeless that it would make Richmond, the goth who lives in the basement and watches lights flicker on The IT Crowd, more morose than usual, so why begrudge them this bit of pompous whimsy?
" A Republican political operative and Capitol Hill veteran told me: "It doesn't take long for ordinary voters — who are very different from people in Washington — to start seeing participating committee members as pompous, rude and belittling, and begin to side with whoever is sitting in the hot seat.
" The letter continued: "I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are.
"With all those voices out there on the stage, to call me 'the voice of the Met' is very odd," he said in 270, sounding about the same in conversation as when the "on the air" light was on: conversational, avuncular and warmly authoritative, but not pompous or pretentious.
It is hard to imagine this assortment of people, who include a gay, anti-abortion political columnist-turned screenwriter (Roe Hartrampf), as well as Lyssa's conservative senator father (a graciously pompous Richard Poe) and his latest, sweetly dithery wife (Deborah Rush, divine as always), making nice over brunch.
She was full of rage toward him, and she expressed this not only in the portraits of insufferably pompous men that she smuggled into her fiction but also in strange revenge-fantasy cartoons that showed her serving Hyman entrails for dinner, or creeping up behind him with a hatchet.
During one broadcast on which I appeared, when we were discussing an address that Trump had made to the United Nations—Channel One's news program had called it "lengthy and rather pompous"—I asked the hosts if they felt any regret that the Russian media had favored Trump.
Which is kind of fitting: the real arch stood for 2,000 years in Syria before being blown up by Isis militants, and the 2:3 replica in London performed a similarly miniature re-enactment of its story: put up by some pompous local ruler, gawped at briefly, and then taken apart.
Again, this is not exactly pleasant, and listening to Chris Christie and Evan Roberts from the height of an afternoon into the fat part of happy hour was not ever really fun—Christie is too prickly and pompous, Roberts not quite capable of carrying him—and more exhausting than anything else.
From what we can tell, he's not the kind of artist who spends endless hours crafting glitches of pixel paintings and writing esoteric, pompous "artist statements" on the virtual as paradigm or many of the other self-conscious and often superfluous trappings that often interfere with artworks from this particular scene.
In 1801, Joseph Strutt published his history of British sport with the expansive title, typical of the time period, of The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May-Games, Mummeries, Pageants, Processions, and Pompous Spectacles, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
It was an expression to indicate this was not exactly a normal circumstance for any juror to find himself in, let alone a juror who ran twice for the job that the current impeached occupant of the White House (who had recently called said juror "a pompous ass") now holds.
"After my initial feeling of being violated, seeing that pompous fool using my creation to stroke his infantile ego, it finally struck me that the leader of my country and the free world actually enjoys comparing himself to a mass murderer," he said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
We learn that some "Interior Event" (there are a lot of capital letters in this story) changed him long ago and forever, so that he walks with a limp, has trouble remembering his past, depends for money on a pompous cousin in pharmaceuticals, whose dubious medicines he sells across America.
"We may still be far from the final result that we wanted, but this feels like progress, and hopefully, it gives out a message to the pompous Tories that they can't make bad decisions on our behalf," said Luke Rossi, 25, a musician who had voted for the first time.
" Another state court judge was confirmed to be a federal judge whom the ABA said: "Displays inappropriate judicial temperament with lawyers, litigants, and judicial colleagues; that all too frequently, while on the bench … is arrogant, pompous, condescending, impatient, short-tempered, rude, insulting, bullying, unnecessarily mean, and altogether lacking in people skills.
We cannot escape the suspicion that there are still some Morads in our midst: Brave commandos who become political leaders or arms dealers or pundits; Israelis who are blunt, macho, crude, boisterous, pompous and trigger-happy; Israelis who forget to shed their uniformed mentality even when their services are no longer needed.
Which is to say, cocksure and uncertain, devious and naïve, ebullient and melancholy, pompous and frivolous, bored, hard-working, shiftless, wide-eyed and tired of it all, full of dreams and schemes, and, without quite realizing it, a little absurd, for they are mostly common men distinguished largely by possession of uncommon jobs.
One of the more radical things about these films is the way they suggest that the rise of the Sith Lords (here represented by Palpatine, a figure whose unlikely political success is one of the spines of the trilogy) is a necessary correction to the pompous self-regard of the Jedi Council.
Trump responded to news of the leak by tweeting that Darroch was "a pompous fool" and a "very stupid guy" who is "not liked or well thought of within the US," a "wacky ambassador" who "I do not know" -- an operatic outpouring of thin-skinned rage that simply validated Darroch's observations, the diplomat said.
The isolated, grand cubes she designed for West and JAY-Z's Watch the Throne tour conveyed a sense of pompous solitude—something that has come to define part of the tone of their later careers—while 2016's Formation Tour opened with a literal aperture of light, presenting Beyonce as a celestial, near-religious figure.
Dazed and Confused: Mike vs Clint, with a side of Mike vs Himself In one of the many so-true-it-hurts slices of life from Richard Linklater's beloved slice of life from white '70s youth culture, the neurotic intellectual Mike goes looking for a fight and finds the pompous greaser Clint at a party.
I've always been slightly leery that Succession invites us to dismiss Willa because she's a call girl — sex workers unduly get a hard time of it on TV — but this sequence reveals that, no, you should be dismissing her because she's a fatuous, pompous fool who's more interested in looking good than doing anything real.
And I have to say, that Post-it made it impossible to have a totally serious or pompous conversation about applications; that Post-it hanging there on that door took us right out of the stressed-out third child with something to prove zone and into the puerile joke range, where it turned out that we all belonged.
On the side of the law (and it's a sooty side), we have Mr. Goodman (in surprisingly one-note form) as the conniving, none-too-bright sheriff; Micah Stock, doing his eccentric straight-faced thing as a cop with a penchant for amateur psychology; and Dann Florek, who has some great pompous flourishes as the corrupt mayor.
As directed by Mischief alongside Mark Bell "The Comedy About a Bank Robbery" breaks with the troupe's precedent in giving women prominence, most notably a game Charlie Russell as the wonderfully named Caprice Freeboys, who happens to be the vampish daughter of the pompous bank manager, Robin, a role that Mr. Lewis roars his way amiably through.
Some of the major fumbles of the first few weeks of the Trump administration have been due to the communications team: whether it was the sloppy rollout of the executive order on immigration or the series of television interviews with senior officials who were either unprepared, out of the loop or pompous enough to think they could wing it with a network anchor.
VICE Does America follows these three knuckleheads as they drive in a shitty-ass RV from Los Angeles to Washington, DC. Over 30 days of traveling, going through nearly as many states, they come across porn stars, pot heads, gun-toting militia men, protesting Native Americans, the remains of deceased Mexican migrants, Creationist scientists, an African king, and pompous presidential candidates.
Here, musical tension combined with visual: the basic geometry of eight bongos, all in a line, with percussionists approaching them and then departing from the corners of the stage, in great but never pompous ceremony; the arc that the drumsticks trailed through the air, a blurring of the precise beats they created; the clash of sticks as players came dangerously close together.
Dr. Johnson was a reluctant surgeon — early on, he once recalled, "I disliked surgeons and their pompous attitudes" — but he applied the crocheting skills he had learned from his mother, who was a home economics teacher, and the needlecraft he was taught in a seventh-grade sewing class (he got an A), to perform more than 8,500 heart bypass operations over four decades.
One of the things I loved about the vision that Danny had for the film is that it wasn't going to be a pompous 1970s social realism film that would shame the bourgeoisie and policy-makers into spending money on the inner cities and all this kind of crap, because that ship has sailed, and it's never going to happen.
A series of ingeniously structured jumps in time and point of view show what led to little Kaia's humiliation at his teacher's hands, and reach all the way back to Augustown's own iconic "flying preacherman," Alexander Bedward, whose prophesied ascent into the heavens throws not only his flock, but all of Jamaica — including its pompous colonial governors — into upheaval long before Kaia's birth.
With this theme very much in mind, I went to see Laurent Grasso's elegant short film "Elysée" (2016) at Galerie Perrotin's Impasse Saint Claude space on the same day that US intelligence agencies stated with "high confidence" that, in order to aid the pompous and acrimonious Donald Trump to power, the Russian military intelligence hacking entities Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks.
Trump mocked Romney for his 85033 electoral loss and called the GOP senator a "pompous 'ass'" after he spoke out Friday against Trump's calls for foreign powers to investigate former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Trey Gowdy joins Trump's legal team MORE, a chief political rival and leading Democratic presidential candidate.
In particular, anti-Trumpists might be a touch more effective if they could recognize how humorlessness and constant self-important dudgeon frequently helps the Trumpian cause, by setting up the dynamic I just sketched in my movie pitch — where the country is asked to choose between two kinds of folly, one squalid and corrupt but the other pompous, insufferable and paranoid in its own self-important way.
Doyle was also both hilarious and fierce, and I took as much pleasure from watching him address a denizen of the gun-rights coalition as "dear outraged shrieking lunatic," or describe certain members of the Catholic hierarchy as "arrogant pompous nominal bosses issuing proclamations and denouncing dissent," as I took from lingering over the loveliest descriptions of the natural world I have ever read.
Hannity: 'Short-tempered, pompous' Rosenstein should heed GOP warnings or face contempt, impeachment SUPREME DECISION LOOMS: President Trump met with a bipartisan group of six senators at the White House Thursday night to discuss the Supreme Court vacancy left by the looming retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy ...  The president met in person with Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa; Susan Collins, R-Maine; Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska; Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.
The Brexit vote could almost have been designed to reveal long-festering problems with the country: an elite educational system that puts too much emphasis on confidence and bluff and not enough on expertise; a political system that selects its leaders from a self-involved Oxbridge clique; a London-focused society that habitually ignores the worries of the vast mass of British people; and a Conservative Party that promotes so many pompous mediocrities.
Kim Darroch's resignation came one day after Trump bashed him as a "very stupid guy" and "pompous fool" and his tenure became a flashpoint in the race to replace outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa MayTheresa Mary MayTrump, Boris Johnson discuss Brexit, trade issues in Monday phone call Pence to travel to United Kingdom, Ireland and Iceland in September Pelosi vows no UK free trade deal if Brexit undermines Good Friday accord MORE.
Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyOvernight Defense: Turkey launches offensive against Syrian Kurds | Trump set for clash with Congress over Kurds | Senators unveil Turkey sanctions bill | Trump says Kurds 'didn't help us' in Normandy | Defense official arrested for leaking to journalists Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Romney bemoans 'tragic loss of life' in Syria after Trump move MORE (Utah) on Saturday and called him a "pompous 'ass'" after the Republican senator criticized Trump over his dealings with Ukraine.
And yet after learning that Darroch wrote all of this, Trump's response was not only to say he would no longer deal with him, but to tweet out — on Tuesday, days after the leak — that Darroch was "very stupid" and a "pompous fool" and also, "Tell him the USA now has the best Economy & Military anywhere in the World, by far and they are both only getting bigger, better and stronger.....Thank you, Mr. President!" thus ensuring that this would be a multiday story.

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