Sentence examples for extremely pompous from inspiring English sources
My own theory is that Mr. Bradley's troubles began when women realized that he sounds a lot like an extremely pompous husband pretending to be patient.
Here's another fascinating thing about the episode: the unbelievably tall woman who had an affair with my then-husband had a husband of her own - an extremely pompous British civil servant I thinly disguised as an extremely pompous American civil servant - and to this day he constantly takes shots at me for the damage I did to his family.
Newt, on the other hand, is always good in debates if you like extremely pompous people who appear to be practically levitating with their own sense of personal wonderfulness.
To which the Queen responded: "That is an extremely pompous remark".
Rumsfeld, who comes across as smug, pompous, and extremely intelligent, pushes and pushes Tommy Franks to come up with a plan of attack that is leaner, smarter, and faster and requires fewer troops than the lumbering plans on file.
Seriousness, of course, need not mean gloom, and it should also be mentioned that this is an extremely funny book, full of good jokes at the expense of exploitative publishers and pompous intellectuals.
He gives us a little lecture about when to use "whether" and "if," and deems "utilize" a "noxious puff-word" used by pompous twits and insecure naïfs and "feckless" a "totally great adjective" that "lets you be extremely dismissive and mean without sounding mean".
