Sentence examples for both pompous from inspiring English sources

His Tietjens is both pompous and self-aware, attractive and ungainly, though never homely enough to justify Valentine's exclamation, "You're not so dreadfully ugly, really".

He intends to do away with the title "shadow ministerial team", because "I think it is both pompous and just really foolish to wander around pretending that you're the shadow government when you've got eight MPs".

That book is both pompous (Shakespeare and Tolstoy, we learn, were driven by "powerful hearts," not "powerful wills") and redundant (the best evidence of a writer's mind is generally the work itself).

Sarah Palin has always been too ethnic, and Michele Bachmann's name sounds both pompous and Jewish, i.e. socialist.

They're both preening, pompous idiots.

With the advent of punk, epic, virtuosic music was seen as both formally pompous and politically élitist.

When his opera Nixon in China was first performed in 1988, the critic Edward Rothstein said that the music managed to be both vulgar and pompous, which was quite a feat.

Houser also expressed the difficulty in balancing the game's narrative to avoid feeling both "camp" and "pompous"; he explained that balancing the two while maintaining realism was where the difficulty spawned.

And Justice Stevens did not approve of the chief justice's decision to add gold stripes to the sleeves of his robes, a move that struck many as frivolous or pompous or both.

That elegantly attired six-feet-five frame was both imposing and proudly pompous, but certainly not unaware of who he was and the foibles and failings of his tribe.

The piece begins similarly with a slow chordal introduction both awkward and a little pompous.