This is the same attitude that leads to parents pompously handing out organic carob shards as their child's "sweet treat" as if letting them scarf down a Freddy Frog would result in the dismantling of western civilisation.
OBESE, waddling, pompously leaden of rhetoric, with a war record that some consider criminal and a squint that broadened with every passing year: outsiders never found it easy to comprehend what Israelis saw in Ariel Sharon.
He tramps the full length of London's ghastly Oxford Street six times in a day, and makes it sound enjoyable and interesting.Part of the fun is the way he condenses the work of others who have approached the subject pompously or sententiously.
The word is often used to refer to texts that are overburdened with instructive or factual matter to the exclusion of graceful and pleasing detail so that they are pompously dull and erudite.
Though I managed to bat off most of my activist mother's entreaties to deliver leaflets on behalf of Labour – pompously pleading the need for journalistic impartiality – there was no escaping the gloom at home following a crushing defeat for the party both nationally and locally.
You delve into a claustrophobic lamp-lit maze of shops, rich with incense burnt to placate the gods, while ladies gather sipping chai and traders pompously unfurl one startling cloth after another: scarlet, fuchsia or royal blue.
I have met some of the most boring people in the Western world who pompously assume they must be protected from the probing interests of the snoopers.
I am not so much interested in making a mark as in serving our clients with some very good-quality bread, which I pompously think we do.
Everyone remembers all those begats in the Bible, and that the Greeks used epic poetry to trace their lineage back to ancient heroes (and, for the more pompously inclined, gods).
As he pompously puts it, "There was, on the one hand, an enormous crowd of entities — ourselves and others — roaming the planet, trying to sustain themselves, or, in other words, looking for something to eat; and on the other hand there was a tiny, inadequate crowd of entities available on the planet to be eaten".
Thus, fragments of the composer's life are strewn through Murr's pompously charming monologues.
