Sentence examples for Pompous character from inspiring English sources

Martin Amis is a rather pompous character in "Money".

Here's Groucho at work: "I love you, I love you," he passionately declares to Margaret Dumont's pompous character in "Cocoanuts".

"I keep thinking of the pompous character in the Pet Shop Boys song Yesterday When I Was Mad: 'I enjoyed it though of course no one understood a word of what was going on …'," he says.

Martin Amis is a rather pompous character in "Money". There are two Philip Roths in "Operation Shylock". (One is an impostor). The protagonist of Jonathan Safran Foer's "Everything Is Illuminated" is some yokel named Jonathan Safran Foer.

Check out the following writers of sentence-labyrinthes and pompous characters who never know when to quit: Herman Melville.

He was so adept at composing ethnic tunes like "Alexander's Ragtime Band" -- the name Alexander was shorthand for a pompous blackface character in the world of minstrel shows and ragtime -- that rivals accused him of keeping a "little colored boy" in his basement to write them.

Considerably heavier than in his last Broadway outing as Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire," Mr. Baldwin's Oscar suggests a big, diabolical baby, waiting to be indulged and pampered, somewhat in the manner of the pompous title character in "The Man Who Came to Dinner".

In a Feb. 6 phone interview, the actor, who mind you could totally be as pompous as the character he portrays in Whiplash, was humble, sweet, funny, and intelligent.

After all, in "Shrek" he was the voice of an animated character, the pompous, fussy Lord Farquaad.

The actor's frantic mugging, guffawing and eyebrow twitching only underscore the character's pompous self-satisfaction.

There is a tart running joke in which the main character, a pompous poet called Jesper Humlin, cannot move for friends and rivals writing crime fiction for profit.