Sentence examples for pompous buffoon from inspiring English sources

But in recent years he has been seen "as a pompous buffoon," Jagmohan says.

Their father (Cenerentola's stepfather) Don Magnifico, meanwhile, is a pompous buffoon.

"It is lovely here, you should come home you pompous buffoon.

Yes, he says, it's easy to dismiss Captain Mainwaring as a pompous buffoon, but how wrong that would be.

It evolved after Olbermann instituted a farcical segment called "The Worst Person in the World," in which O'Reilly, depicted as a pompous buffoon, was regularly cited.

But he reserved his most stinging criticisms for the SAS men who had written books, some of whom had suggested that he was a pompous buffoon.

Friends of Prof Glees, on the other hand, privately describe Lord Roper as "a pompous buffoon who was totally out of his depth" in his contacts with the communists.

Ron Silver plays him as an unctuous, pompous buffoon, with a self-satisfied smile and a pouf of jet-black hair that sweeps back until it meets a gigantic bald spot on the back of his head.

Nelson, originally brought to the university on the tenure track by the faculty's lone holdover traditionalist, a pompous buffoon who is a fount of Bellowesque political incorrectness, has seen his star fall to the point where he finally loses even his job teaching freshman composition.

In particular, Lacanian psychoanalysts are now seen by many as cruel, pompous buffoons.

It also tends to let the hot air out of pompous buffoons like Chris "the national teachers union deserves a punch in the face" Christie, Rick "Oops" Perry, and Rick ("the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex") Santorum.