Sentence examples for pompous speeches from inspiring English sources
About three years ago, he was teasing me about something – being thick probably, or making pompous speeches.
After all, no one has ever needed much convincing that there was more to the Romans than long pompous speeches, battles and bridges, even if the bowdlerisers have occasionally got to work on some of the best bits.
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.
Wyndham lumbers his characters with some verbose, pompous speeches about human nature, but his points are still interesting and as relevant today as when he wrote the book in 1955.
Mr Hague has had a reputation for bloodlessness ever since he made a pompous speech to the Conservative Party conference at the age of 16.
And he gives Ricky perhaps the most ridiculously pompous speech to be delivered without irony on the New York stage this season, one of whose only obscenity-free lines is, "Having a child is the most creative thing you can do in this world".
After being brought in with drum majorettes and marching bands, the off-the-cuff charisma of Zuma a guy who spent a lot of the last election dancing and singing about his machine gun was replaced by his tendency to read pompous flat speeches in a dry monotone.
Be positive and avoid "pompous" language.
What people don't know about Walton is that he works very hard at perfecting his pompous-sounding speech because every time he opens his mouth he is terrified that no words will come out.
According to Muguraș Constantinescu: "[Roată] opposes the intelligence of common folk, their common sense, their humor and the pleasure of allegorical discourse to the pompous and hollow speeches of some politicians".
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.
