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Examples for "pompous "
Examples for "pompous "
1 Its capital runs into millions; its prospectuses are pompous ; its pay-roll mysterious.
2 Many say his at times schoolmasterly manner of explaining issues sounds pompous .
3 The pompous collaborator stepped forward, and Kira realized her opportunity had come.
4 The younger man ignored the pompous tone of this speech; he nodded.
5 The heavy, pompous clouds were floating in the sky over their heads.
1 But it was a portentous moment in Irish commercial and social history.
2 The political aspects of the times were now portentous in the extreme.
3 The situations of the principal powers of Europe are singular and portentous .
4 But there is something portentous in the change in Chichester, said Malling.
5 Such was the matter-of-fact manner in which the portentous news was announced.
1 M. Edgeworth put on his pontifical robes, and began to celebrate mass.
2 Expenditure, always charming, becomes under these circumstances a sacred and pontifical act.
3 I noted it, I think, in the case of the pontifical feminine dress.
4 They passed between the pontifical guards, who gave the priest the military salute.
5 A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth.
1 It was grandiloquent , and it often took long to reach the point.
2 He preferred, in his grandiloquent way, to call a spade a spade.
3 The image suggests a grandiloquent eccentric, a man engaged in endearing folly.
4 He made her a grandiloquent bow and sat down at his desk.
5 They say that he lacked inspiration, and was vulgar, bombastic, and grandiloquent .
1 But many others felt the new year holiday saga had been overblown .
2 A sizable minority of Americans continue to think coronavirus concerns are overblown .
3 But McGregor said all the concern about dangers proved to be overblown .
4 The collage effect is brilliantly achieved technically but at times seems overblown .
5 In other words, they say fears of a skills shortage are overblown .
6 This issue is being overblown , Mnuchin said in an interview with CNBC.
7 But Kersee insists that the drugs crisis in the sport is overblown .
8 Some people suggest that concerns about a swine flu pandemic are overblown .
9 Expectations for a grand bargain from the meeting were overblown , he said.
10 While he's honored to be included, Huston says the credit is overblown .
11 Some analysts said Wednesday's selloff in Apple shares may have been overblown .
12 If this was intended as a show of solidarity, it felt overblown .
13 And speaking of that, we've got bigger problems than your overblown libido.
14 President Higgins crossed a line with his overblown tribute to Fidel Castro.
15 I clung stubbornly to the view that Zika fears were largely overblown .
16 An accident, but the only amusing thing about this monstrous overblown figure.
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