pompousness's Usage Examples:

Arts Jersey City called it "an insensitive, self-aggrandizing piece of pompousness by one of the world's blatant self-promoters".

Julia accepts the pompousness of Armed forces service life, but her honesty and sense of humour prevent.

denote what he saw as the contemporary Russian stage actors' worst flaws: pompousness and penchant for banality.

With characteristic pompousness, he convenes a parade of the remainder of the platoon in which to inform.

It is going to be a bank without any pompousness, absolutely no intention to impress.

Iloilo and Guimaras who was reportedly driven into hiding by Mimi’s pompousness.

In a fit of reckless pompousness, he changes the Colonel's house into a spectacular palace of real gold.

It also celebrates Eid and Christmas Day with similar pompousness.

santosha (contentment), Arjava, abstinence from arrogance, simplicity (non-pompousness), astika (faith in Self, belief in God), and avoiding being cause of.

becomes stronger and they decide to get married; however, Swindley's pompousness and arrogance forces her to jilt him at the altar.

Their role was to laugh at absurdities and pompousness of both sides of the system and provoke independent thinking.

The later parts of the book describe Jeffson's descent into mad pompousness: adopting Turkish attire, he declares himself monarch and burns down.

by a dash of the melo-dramatic style and the laboured pompousness he has acquired by long practice of his art at the Bowery.

He promised a simple and less costly government, devoid of showy pompousness in which the prime minister's house will be converted into an educational.

composer's characteristic avoidance of "any suggestion of rhetorical pompousness".

the actual content of many of the speeches serve to illustrate the pompousness of Valentine and Proteus' exalted outlook, and the more realistic and.

Similarly, Jamie Carson of Clash disapproved of the production, calling it "pompousness" and "annoying", and Mark Davison of No Ripcord remarked that "for all.

leaves out the pompousness essential to the part and the play".

Synonyms:

ostentation; inflation; pretentiousness; puffiness; pomposity; inelegance; splashiness; ostentatiousness;

Antonyms:

deflation; unpretentiousness; naturalness; tastefulness; elegance;