Sentence examples for pompous diction from inspiring English sources
Edith Grossman's English sensitively captures these shifting registers, as we move from the Knight's ornate, sometimes pompous diction, via the narrator's fluent and funny recounting, to the earthy Sancho Panza and his muddier music.
The actresses chosen to read any of her letters invariably adopted pompous Comédie-Française diction thickly iced with sugar, and the real voice of the prisoner who had asked, "Why am I here and what have I done?" remained silent.
Portraying Obama as a pompous, Harvard-educated elitist, critics have mocked his diction, his manner, even his accent.
I've had the same experience with, among others, Nabokov's punctilious, likeably pompous Russian-accented speech and J. M Coetzee's diction, which is as affectless and precisely controlled as his prose.
Her musical numbers were particularly enchanting, as she turned her floating, fluttering soprano to a giddy rendition of "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" and a woozily romantic version of "I Could Have Danced All Night". The night, however, belonged to Lithgow, whose comically snooty demeanor and crisp diction were perfectly suited to the role of the pompous but endearingly helpless Higgins.
Their language blends "proper" English that harks back to colonial days – slightly pompous, archly funny at times – with the rhythm and warmth of Caribbean diction.
Architecture - Signs - Pompous Grass.
