Sentence examples for slightly pompous from inspiring English sources

The sad fact is that this is what you get when overweening, slightly pompous ambition is outstripped by actual ability.

IT IS hard to picture Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia's dignified if slightly pompous president, clad in a leather jacket over a T-shirt advertising a rock band.

My friend said, finally, that it looked exactly right: the kind of house a child would find impressive but that's not actually great — drab, slightly pompous.

The individual pieces are themselves brief, breezy and fun to read, despite occasional eruptions of the prolix and slightly pompous tone that also marred Gould's later science writing.

On Friday, that story was a powerful section of a speech that illustrated Biden's particular style of rhetoric: frequently meandering, slightly pompous but movingly personal.

There's a long-standing joke that the charitable and - to some minds - slightly pompous U2 frontman Bono fancies himself Jesus-like.

The Leyland Brothers had built it in 1990, as part of the slightly pompous-sounding Leyland Brothers World, and they'd pinned their hopes on it but received nothing in return except bankruptcy and woe.

A pair of somewhat pompous bronze doors designed by the sculptor Robert Graham on the left side of the façade bring you into the south ambulatory, which is a long, sloping corridor that narrows slightly as you move forward, like diminishing perspective.

On the basis it is often slightly thickened or pompous and becomes hollow inside.

The pitch-perfect first half of the novel demonstrates that Clark is not only an adept stylist -- the pompous, slightly stilted tones of his narrator vividly evoke Leveraux's stuffy, square conservative British expat -- but possesses a flair for pacing.

The town hall, finished in 1904, is typical of its time, pompous and slightly overpowering.