Sentence examples for but pompous from inspiring English sources
"Plus she shows the charming but pompous tough guy, Maui, that brawling isn't always the best solution to a problem.
They were modest but pompous, gentle but tyrannical (one of them got angry if he was disturbed on a Monday, the vicar's day off), pious but knowing.
Take the following, for instance: "a simple blind sea creature, but refusing to be refused … odd: insistent, but cowardly; pleading but pompous".
Her good-humored but pompous husband, Chanu (Satish Kaushik), is a classic post-colonial subject — he thinks that the British will accept him if he has read the Brontës and Thackeray.
The recent renovation of Lincoln Center, so good in some departments, didn't do anything about the boring but pompous exteriors of the Met and the David H. Koch Theater (formerly the New York State Theater).
The European Research Group is only the current incarnation of Tory Europhobia, which itself carries genes from the League of Empire Loyalists, a small but pompous choir in the 1950s.
She is accompanied by her dishy-but-pompous hunk of a Brit grandson Charlie, played by Australian star Christopher Egan, whose mangled English accent makes him sound as if his epiglottis has been kidnapped by aliens.
Mr. Hunt is intent but never pompous.
The aim was to be noble, but not pompous.
Miliband is the strangest combination: boyish but sometimes pompous.
Mr. Gore can be stiff but not pompous.
