"Perhaps I am punch-drunk from pompous phrases in the City and neighing banalities in Chelsea," he adds.
President Warren Harding was an orator, but his bloviations were an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea.
"An army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea" was the criticism applied to speeches by Warren Harding - one of only two senators to make it to the White House.
Warren G. Harding, grandiloquent speaker and former President of the United States, had a speech style consisting primarily of "an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea," according to one political critic.
I was defeated by the food, and disgusted with myself for being in this position, and I mocked myself with a pompous phrase I'd heard a foodie use on a TV show: "I regret to say this dish is not fully achieved".
While proud moms peek at their darlings through the fence, the students pronounce pompous Latin phrases, make hilarious attacks on Polish literary sanctities and try to prove by nave displays of crudeness that they are not nave.
1937 Old Men Giving Way, Says Wells LONDON — H.G. Wells, returning to Plymouth today after a six-week lecture tour in the United States, told reporters meeting him at the boat that young Americans have had enough of "pompous old gentlemen with rhetorical phrases" and are putting young men into public office.
When she writes, "The stopped woods / are seized of quiet," you get the feeling it never occurred to her that the phrase could sound pompous -- which is a good thing, because in her poem, it doesn't.
In the 2010 guide, its editors, David Marsh and Amelia Hodsdon, take a different line: "It is perfectly acceptable, and often desirable, to sensibly split infinitives – 'to boldly go' is an elegant and effective phrase – and stubbornly to resist doing so can sound pompous and awkward".
To these, he added wide reading, not always worn lightly, an extraordinary memory – he seemed, his friend Ian McEwan observed, to enjoy "instant neurological recall" of anything he had ever read or heard – and a vigorous, if sometimes pompous writing style, heavily laden with adjectives, elegantly looping sub-clauses and archaic phrases such as "allow me to inform you".
DH Lawrence's "Mornings in Mexico " is just about bearable with a thick "history and bigotry" mental filter but he's so pompous! and he's doing that unbearable thing where he keeps repeating the same phrase over and over!
