Sentence examples for rather pompous from inspiring English sources

Martin Amis is a rather pompous character in "Money".

Rome's celebrity orator now has the reputation of being a rather pompous and deeply conservative preacher.

I'm not a huge fan of Edmund White generally (I find him rather pompous).

"Winterton was, of course, enraged by this admonishment He can be a rather pompous fellow... .. "Unlike yourself," murmured Wimsey.

"Frankly, this is a rather pompous word for what the rest of us would call 'cheap filming'".

After a manhunt, in which policemen and librarians posed incognito, Orton and Halliwell were undone by Sydney Porrett, a clever but rather pompous member of Islington's legal department.

But when consumer confidence is up, Sting's aura seems graceful rather than pompous, his good life and smooth art enviable properties.

Updated at 5.50pm GMT 5.17pm GMT The Great Panjandrum crisis Jemima Kiss continues: Reader Andrew Gray isn't so sure that "Panjandram" in this context refers to a cannon-esque stature, but rather someone pompous and self-important.

That could be, but I still wish I could remember who did what to whom in D. H. Lawrence's "Women in Love" — and the actual, rather than pompous and pretend, reasons why I've told people that I preferred "Sons and Lovers".

Gordimer tackles the subject in a thorough, dispassionate prose that often feels inert and sometimes lapses into pompous, rather trite oppositions: "The purpose of a doctor's life is to defend the body against the violence of pain.

"If you want to get something of the atmosphere and the mood of a time, it's through the everyday trivia rather than the pompous reflections of historians looking back or government edicts," said Martin Andrews, deputy director of the two-year-old Center for Ephemera Studies at the University of Reading in England, where researchers study disposable printed matter.