Sentence examples for very pompous from inspiring English sources

He always greeted their mother in a very pompous fashion.

Some of them are still great but some of them have become very pompous.

It gets very earnest about a teenager's poetry and very pompous about a writer's need for "autonomous thought".

Much repaired and modernised, few PMs have liked the house or its sunless street, literally overshadowed by the very pompous Foreign Office building across the road.

"We read an article by one prominent scholar," he said, "and she raised her hand and said, 'He's very pompous, isn't he?' Which is very true, but you don't know how to respond to that".

Normally when I make something I'm not interested in the money I make, I'm only interested in what the thing is, what the audience understands, which is why as an artist — I say, that's very pompous to say "as an artist" — I have worked in so many different circumstances....My work is not generally in the commercial sector.

What a really, really pompous dick.

He responded with a very curt and pompous, "Whatever".

Simon has reserved particular contempt for Gordon Ramsay, who is expected to be awarded two stars for his restaurant at Versailles and whose food was described by the critic last year as "boring, pompous and very expensive".

David Calder plays Charles, the northern bloke's dad, a pompous fellow who (very improbably) inveigles Jennifer Jason Leigh into sex - an imbroglio that ends in disaster.

Is it needlessly cynical to read a pompous celebrity's very bad novel purely in order to dunk on it?