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

I love the Oscars, with all their pageantry and pomposity.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2024

Chandler was also good at puncturing Ross's occasional moments of pomposity.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2023

I sat up stiff and straight in my seat with all the poor pomposity of youth.

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

When we have to tell a story to a small boy or girl, we avoid little pomposities, and seek for the plainest, clearest and most direct phrase.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by George Frisbie Hoar