Sentence examples for highly pompous from inspiring English sources
It becomes hard to link the gruff character played by Mr Spall with the spellbinding pictures that hang in Tate Britain today.Consequently, when Mr Leigh (interviewed here) does try to show Turner as a high aesthete, the result feels contrived, such as when Turner defends Claude Lorrain, a French painter, from the attacks of a young (and highly pompous) John Ruskin.
He combines valid points with a highly confrontational approach (he once called me a "pompous elitist asshole" and I still consider him a friend).
H. L. Mencken, ever wary of pompous speeches and empty promises, rated Calvin Coolidge highly because, as he once wrote: "There were no thrills while he reigned, but neither were there any headaches.
Next to it is a large and highly detailed portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci holding a musical score, valued at €400,000 to €600,000, in which a lifelike and rather pompous looking young man with curled haired and ruffled cuffs clutches a sheet of music.
Leos are ambitious, dominant, charismatic, very demanding, smart, arrogant, athletic, pompous, physically powerful, conceited, temperamental, competitive, intelligent, loud, loyal, strong-willed, and usually laid-back, but can be highly aggressive.
Architecture - Signs - Pompous Grass.
Weak, self-deluding, pompous?
