'I remember thinking' - he adopts a knowingly pompous tone - "I am very advanced".' Unsurprisingly, Djalili's classmates were perplexed by Camel and, indeed, him.
With the film's incessant strings and narration by Hugh Bonneville of "Downton Abbey," the earnest yet pompous tone could almost be mistaken for a Monty Python parody of the BBC-standard style.
I have said in a knowing, pompous tone, "That is so 'Corrections.'" But I've never actually opened the book and read the words that are in 'The Corrections.'" Two people admit to never reading "1984," by George Orwell.
On one side of the stage, a typewriter dangles from a long piece of fabric; commentary is delivered in a pompous tone and, as Mr. Ekman's program note states, "suggests the 'right' answers to the meaning of the piece".
Last year our reviewer, Ian Buruma, said that while Said's account occasionally suffers from a pompous tone, his "descriptions of growing up in a claustrophobic cocoon of wealth and an overprotective family are excellent".
When I was later asked to read and comment on the draft of Pat's memoirs, I gave a detailed evaluation of the manuscript, including some critical remarks about the ghastly sporting metaphors and the occasionally pompous tone.
One of Mann's wittiest accomplishments is to recapture the stiffly formal side of official life in the thirties, the pompous tone of bureaucracy and media, too — the sound of a newly powerful country trying to impress itself with its own importance.
When he wants to undercut something he is saying, to indicate that he knows he is speaking in a cliché or taking on a stentorian or pompous tone, he uses the Mr. Goofy voice, stretching his face into a kind of clownish expression and affecting a tone more suited to a television dinosaur.
