Usage of "pontifical"

Its capital runs into millions; its prospectuses are pompous; its pay-roll mysterious. 
 The Woman Who Toils / Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen a... 

Many say his at times schoolmasterly manner of explaining issues sounds pompous. 
 Reuters 

The pompous collaborator stepped forward, and Kira realized her opportunity had come. 
 Star trek: terok nor: dawn of the eagles 

The younger man ignored the pompous tone of this speech; he nodded. 
 Flowing Gold 

The heavy, pompous clouds were floating in the sky over their heads. 
 Creatures That Once Were Men 

But it was a portentous moment in Irish commercial and social history. 
 The Irish Times 

The political aspects of the times were now portentous in the extreme. 
 The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 / With Life, Critica... 

The situations of the principal powers of Europe are singular and portentous. 
 State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) 

But there is something portentous in the change in Chichester, said Malling. 
 The Dweller on the Threshold 

Such was the matter-of-fact manner in which the portentous news was announced. 
 A Modern Chronicle — Volume 01 

But many others felt the new year holiday saga had been overblown. 
 The Guardian 

A sizable minority of Americans continue to think coronavirus concerns are overblown. 
 Reuters 

But McGregor said all the concern about dangers proved to be overblown. 
 Reuters 

The collage effect is brilliantly achieved technically but at times seems overblown. 
 The Guardian 

In other words, they say fears of a skills shortage are overblown. 
 Reuters 

It was grandiloquent, and it often took long to reach the point. 
 The Stolen Singer 

He preferred, in his grandiloquent way, to call a spade a spade. 
 The Financier: A Novel 

The image suggests a grandiloquent eccentric, a man engaged in endearing folly. 
 The Irish Times 

He made her a grandiloquent bow and sat down at his desk. 
 Aimez-vous Brahms 

They say that he lacked inspiration, and was vulgar, bombastic, and grandiloquent. 
 Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol... 

Uso de pontifical en inglés

M. Edgeworth put on his pontifical robes, and began to celebrate mass. 
 Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volum... 

Expenditure, always charming, becomes under these circumstances a sacred and pontifical act. 
 Robert Elsmere 

I noted it, I think, in the case of the pontifical feminine dress. 
 What's Wrong with the World 

They passed between the pontifical guards, who gave the priest the military salute. 
 The Saint 

A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth. 
 Les Misérables 

The statue of Lucifer grew immense behind the glittering pontifical figure of Florian. 
 Vittorio, the vampire 

The seal of pontifical reprobation is not removed from their foreheads. 
 The Roman Question 

When addressing his employees, the Colonel seldom bothered to assume his pontifical manner. 
 The Valley of the Giants 

He has indicated that all pontifical ceremonies are scheduled for simplification. 
 The new yorker 

Is the Pope himself being censored from within the pontifical palace? 
 Independent.ie 

As a Protestant cannot be dramatically projected without a pontifical antagonist. 
 The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring 

Never, throughout his pontifical career, had the pope beheld such a crowd before. 
 Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel 

That was Chervil with his phoney smile and his big fat pontifical belly. 
 The Demolished Man 

I was introduced to one of the fifty-nine privileged partakers of the pontifical clemency. 
 The Roman Question 

A pontifical brief pronounced a formal separation between the two. 
 Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 3 

After the return from exile Joshua, Joachim, and Eliashib successively filled the pontifical office. 
 Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02: Jewish Heroes and Prophets 