pomposity

Mr. James, making his Tanglewood and BSO debuts, lent his all-important part tangible seriousness without pomposity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

They won us over with their mild pomposity and aloofness, whereas Rapaport’s annoyance wreaks collateral damage like a chronically unbathed person’s odor assails bystanders.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026

Don Wright, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist whose pointed work punctured duplicity and pomposity and resonated with common-sense readers, died on March 24 at his home in Palm Beach, Fla. He was 90.

From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2024

"Barry Humphries, through his creations, poked and prodded us, exposed pretensions, punctured pomposity, surfaced insecurities, but most of all, made us laugh at ourselves," he wrote.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023

Read English news, yes, and English sport, politics and pomposity, but in future keep the things that hurt to myself alone.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Rebellious colonists skewered British taxation policies, military blunders and parliamentary pomposities through plays, songs and cartoons that rallied others to the cause of independence and made mass mobilization fun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025

From time to time, Mr. Leo devoted his column to skewering the conventions and pomposities of journalistic prose.

From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022

In the Persia of the time, you couldn’t speak or write about the Shah openly, so he called him Marjoribanks, a silly name to make fun of pomposities.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2013

And Anika Noni Rose seemed to have a better handle on the pomposities of Wendy Scott-Carr.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2011

You will hear men talk of the frosted classicism of Corneille or of the powdered pomposities of the eighteenth century, but all these phrases are very superficial.

From What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton