In his autobiography, Chaplin wrote, "Simplicity is best ... pompous effects slow up action, are boring and unpleasant .
The best scene comes when a pompous vicar visits.
This Beethoven Ninth came nowhere near the nobility of Masur's best performances; instead, it stomped toward pompous cliché.
They are peep shows of morbid curiosity at best, and magnets for the most pompous type of ideological grandstanding at worst.
February 21 , 1955Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands Kelsey Grammer, (born February 21 , 1955 St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands) American actor, perhaps best known for his portrayal of the pompous, acerbic, but somehow lovable psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the television series Cheers and its spin-off Frasier.
A kind of ursine Jacques Tati, the well-meaning Paddington caused chaos wherever he went through a mixture of clumsiness and cultural misunderstanding; the best moments usually involved his clashes with pompous British officialdom.A new film version, directed and written by Paul King, focuses on a quality for which the British once prided themselves a welcoming attitude towards refugees.
In Razorlight's best stuff there was always an element of pompous ridiculousness, tempered by a wide-eyed belief.
It simultaneously makes Trump sound like a fool, and reimagines the terrifying Vader as a pompous blowhard whom people do their best to avoid or ignore.
Surely the top Oscar should go to "The Royal Tenenbaums," even though Academy purists may find it insufficiently pompous (has a good shot at best screenplay, though, and that's what matters).
She sets her sights on her pompous boss, Trevor Graydon Marc Kudischh), who gets the best song of the night when he gives her a stenography test set to music by Arthur Sullivan.
Hepburn, her hair tied back and her neck held straight in a high Victorian collar, would be Rose Sayer, the spinster sister of a pompous English missionary (Robert Morley) doing his best to bring the blessings of Methodism to a small village.
