Sentence examples for become pompous from inspiring English sources

In such circumstances it is difficult not to become pompous, and after a while I eased back in my chair and began speaking more slowly, with orotund flourishes, until I began to sound rather as the Yorkshire cricket broadcaster Don Mosey used to when delivering his close of play summary on Test Match Special.

If you use corporate speak, which is long-winded and vague, the writing can become pompous and unreadable.

Don't make a fuss or become pompous if you win.

Good men like women that have good values, so show these off (don't become pompous, though!).

"I would go be an airhead on talk shows, and Peter became pompous and a screamer".

Appointed leader of the newly formed, swaggeringly confident Team Sky in the 2010 Tour de France, he has admitted he became "pompous" and "up my own arse".

Justin Lee Collins continues the story of British heavy metal and reaches 1977, when some fans thought bands like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple had become overblown, pompous and out of touch with their audience, and punk came along to change everything.

They feared "he would become insufferably pompous if he had another ambassadorial post".

Some of them are still great but some of them have become very pompous.

Now the unthinkable has happened: at the City Ballet, Balanchine ballets have become boring, pompous and passé.

MJ: As we became more pompous.