I-ic has the perfect degree of pompousness for the job.

I think he inherited the pompousness along with the big ears."

The family then reacts to the letter, noting the pompousness of its style.

He had a pompousness or formal plenitude in his conversation, which I did not dislike.

But they are unmatched in their taste for arrogance and pompousness."

He doesn't understand the pompousness of these places."

There isn't much, however, that he can do to deflate the pompousness of his character's private musings.

She'd told Brandin as much once, only to learn that he found the poet's pompousness amusing.

"And you're way past the verge of pompousness.

The Chancellor's combination of graft, pompousness, and bullying came close to making her an exception.

"Forgive my pompousness," he went on, "but do you really believe the people are still behind you?

All of us despised the pompousness and pretentiousness of senior officers.

'We're investigating all possibilities,' the investigator said without pompousness.

Must be confident in projecting superciliousness and pompousness.

Some of it is just spit-shined staff pompousness, but I suspect he's as cool, smooth, and efficient as he looks."

Flamboyant phrases slapped together to give a general impression of garrulity, pompousness, absolute phoniness.

Their role was to laugh at absurdities and pompousness of both sides of the system and provoke independent thinking.

He took no further notice of the lawyer, cleared his throat, and announced with due pompousness: "In the name of the Republic!"

All pompousness and wind."

He hated publishers, puritanism and pompousness.

Their marriage ceremonies are unostentatious and shorn of all pompousness, in which neither the bride nor the groom wear any jewellery.

The couple's pompousness deserves puncturing, which the play, of course, obliges with the entrance of Leslie and Sarah.

"Northern pompousness."

Julia accepts the pompousness of service life, but her honesty and sense of humour prevent her from taking her role too seriously.