Significados de pontifical air en inglés

His slightly pontifical air seemed an assurance against ill-timed levity.

Maudsley, however, merely nodded and set about explaining his presence at the asylum with a pontifical air.

He had arisen with the pontifical air of a man who has a weighty gospel to expound.

Together the snake charmer and the camel ascended the cheering aisle and stopped in front of Jumbo, who adopted a grave pontifical air.

His raised hands gave him a vaguely pontifical air (Bishop Blessing Pilgrims), and the kindly smile he wore heightened the illusion.