Sentence examples for just pompous from inspiring English sources

THERE was a time when the names of posh condominiums in Singapore were just pompous ("The Legacy") or cheesy ("Rhapsody on Mt Elizabeth").

"Santa Cruz is a nice, beachy liberal community," Ms. Aurelio said, "but the housing prices are just pompous.

A recently discovered joke book from the third century reveals that the Romans were not just "pompous, toga-wearing bridgebuilders".

To turn this into a dance isn't just pompous, it's preposterous.

Or is that all just pompous hypothesizing by Westerners with enough freedom, information, and education to look down on a simple, kind act?

Or is that all just pompous hypothesising by Westerners with enough freedom, information and education to look down on a simple, kind act?

To his detractors, he is just another pompous liberal.

From Dog's side, Mike was just being pompous and trying to impress people".

With the comic actor Guillermo Francella deftly cast against type, Arquímedes is a shark-eyed torturer and killer, but around the dinner table just a pompous old man.

Just as pompous gestures like Brasilia were over time transformed, made human by infill and adaptation, so did the forbiddingly Ballardian sterility of the "new town" eventually surrender to the casually accretive processes of everyday life.

I'd been a working journalist as long as Jensen and shrugged him off as overbearing, just slightly pompous, but at the same time I liked the gritty attitude and devotion to news.