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He’s usually more confident … verging on the pompous
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Griggsy! She'd never know what he'd put in there, what he'd done, what ridiculous, crazy, stupid, arrogant, pompous, jackass technology he'd gone right ahead and rammed into the thing's very registers, into its very fibers, into the permanent read-only fixtures of its central core
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Slowly I get out of him how he bumped into Barrie in the newsagents’ and how Barrie, in his most pompous manifestation, had the audacity to tell Alastair how immoral it is that he’s moved in with me
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What amazes Billy is that she knows she is a star pupil but has never allowed herself to become pompous or overbearing
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“Nairn-Toh’s rather pompous I think
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Perfect awareness—having passed the swell of time, I remain in history—looked at as an ass for assuming To communicate what I might—repressing some saving Grace from myself, not knowing if I deserve it—“I would Have it as it is, rather than not have it at all?”—Should A saving grace be given to thieves, tress-passers, Law-breakers—a solution is pain reduction, and life sustenance, Not pride games and social repression—the endorphins Replete of all respect find endurance through pompous Wanderings of the ego in control—the ego who would Take the blame and ends up being the only one to know Its great reward—to hide this scar, to pretend it did not 68
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It sounds so pompous the way I put it
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“Listen here you pompous windbag what would you know about anything let alone the bloody war
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The lads cheered and whistled as they congratulated me on deflating that pompous clown and Anne came across and sat between me and Elijah
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I once heard the word used by a pompous attorney on encountering a co-worker he needed to speak with
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The most pompous ass ever to have held the office of Vice President, as well as perhaps the most hypocritical
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The man was pompous arrogance right down to his core, though he knew more about battle than Arig Flamebow it seemed
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It was hard to decide who was the most pompous of the three, as they poked at the statues with a finger or a stick, giving orders, suggesting strategies that they assumed would be followed, and disagreeing with one another until it seemed these meetings would outlast the war
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Wisecracking, precocious young children superseding the worldly ―wisdom‖ of their well-meaning but oftentimes bumbling parents, more often than not, the father; portrayed as ‖agreeable‖, however (somewhat) pompous, over-bearing, self-regarding and someone who just ―doesn‘t get it
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�The pompous ass could not stand being on that high cloud and the emptiness of his life had to end in the way it did,� remarked Steve
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’ And in the article, I came across as a pompous ass, something I figured was not entirely accidental
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He was going to teach this pompous ass a thing or two
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Intense brass sounds and pompous drums came from the small speaker, while the Swede seemed instantly gratified judging from the grin on his face
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He was certainly not handsome and he was a very tiresome, pompous sort of person
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He stood before the fire, his feet planted firmly on the rug, and poured out a flood of pompous platitudes
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If he had too much wine, he could be pompous and boastful, but he was young
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We made the very English comment that being English there’s nothing better than getting one over the French, even in this the most bizarre and pompous of ways
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Ninety-nine stair steps take the visitor to the pompous, extravagant and attractive temple
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He laughed at me and said, “Do you honestly think that I would let that pompous fool have you?”
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How pompous he looked even before he opened his mouth
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In Kim IL-sung’s North Korea is the last Stalinist regime that “incarcerates 150,000 to 200,00 0 people in concentration camps, flouts freedom of conscience, mercilessly clubs its population with pompous, mendacious propaganda, and is responsible for one of the worst famines of the end of the twentieth century
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"So it's still to be taken on faith—you, this joke of time travel and alternate timelines, this pompous professor and his laughable theories you've inflicted upon us and yourself…"
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’ Although he saw no indication of the man’s rank, the way in which he spoke to Brin indicated that he was obviously born into the officer class; this was perhaps the first time that he had been genuinely happy to run into an officer of the pompous type, in the field
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Pompous jackass! This jerk hadn't the faintest idea what he was blathering about
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Galle, the administrator at my school, felt it was ‘too racy for our young developing minds,’” stated Nem in a pompous oratory
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“What the f*ck? To come into my city and rob me blind?! Who does this pompous ass think he’s dealing with?”
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There were a lot of celebrations and pompous ceremonies in the capital New Delhi and other cities
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He told the Maharajas and the wealthy merchants, doctors and lawyers to get rid of their jewelry and pompous life style and devote it to the service of the poor and the country
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He completed the sentence with pompous tone:
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- Please forgive the inconveniences of our pompous arrival
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Azucena had the gift of making appeared out of nothing the most beautiful garments that the textile industry could ever imagine; not even Versace in his best times could have designed so elegant and pompous, simple and stately, coloring or monochrome, conservative or showy, opaque or brilliant, long or short garments which such delicacy and pledge! In other words there were no limits that the creative and textile magic of Azucena could not cover, in terms of textures and designs
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After the snub of the Magician, the pompous and over-sweet words of Dorian refreshed a little my injured pride
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Gordon - It's a bit pompous to say that it was in the blood, but playing with words was the only 'work' that ever excited me
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‘Easy,’ the short, well muscled lad said with a pompous smile
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“Hello, yourself!” snapped the fish “The Wishfish? I’ve never met a more pompous, ignominious idiot! The Coralute? What does that wrinkled old windbag have to do with me? Nothing! Now don’t just stand there, give me a push!”
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My first opponent looked about ten and wobbled ‘Bless this House’ in a breathy treble, then pompous Harry David boomed ‘The Cornish Floral Dance’ before I earned a smattering of applause with what I hoped was a spirited rendition of ‘Westering Home
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First, some pompous idiot in a royal blue outfit garnished with scrambled egg braid presented him to "a tiny, withered old soul who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Sophie, Princess of Russia
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Like, there was this pompous and haughty woman who bragged about her precious items
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The audacity in trussing him like a pig and tormenting him rankled the pompous fat man much more than any fatuous threats
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Carol looked over at the pompous doctor
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At the trial it was said that they had thought that Matthew had seemed like a pompous money hoarder and why should he have so much
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” Lezura gestured to herself in a pompous manner
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Once again, I'd become too pompous and
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They joked about making up names for their children that had never existed before, but rather than go ghetto, they went white bread and pompous
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Ashburn was quite pompous and liked to talk about his supposed heroic war stories, even if he was a fraud and a butcher in this foolish war
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For a moment, Mitchell thought to himself: this is a pompous act from a desperate man to gain a cheap thrill from a beautiful woman; one he hardly knew, all the while, being loveless and precarious seemingly compromising the very principles he tried to live by, his entire life
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Seeing that these individuals, with the exception of the pompous English couple, were largely removed from the affairs that to them hardly existed on the other side of the ocean, Preacher Cooper frowned and looked towards the ground in disappointment and dejection
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Lord Ashburn maintained the same expression of eagerness cloaked beneath pompous formality while Lady Jane offered a subtle smile as if she was amused by the accurate description of her sentiments surrounding the séance
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None of that boring crap about wars and pompous
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The pompous moustache laughed long and hard
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“You know, we should have told that pompous old fart Monsieur Gilbert, in Switzerland, that he was about to get a few more millions deposited in his precious bank!” she joked
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budge an inch for this pompous ass
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The young men behave as pompous fools ,waiting for the highest bidder [dowry] , run miles if a girl suggests marriage , labeling her as maneater
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tinued in his pompous manner
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this pompous fool in such high regard
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Wizard of the High Council instead of that pompous
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but before she could respond Roth strode away from her with a pompous air
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“What a pompous prick!” Henry said wanting to throw his phone at the wall
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The corruption of opium has been replaced by the corruption of pompous power, of unequal authority, of overbearing arrogance
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She had an image of a crumpled Anne lost in a dark corner, pompous Garret standing on the platform with the plain and rich Miss Bevan
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We shall assail the pompous Maruts head-on and prove ourselves to be much more than entertainers in slavery
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nevertheless, the pompous farthingale as if in allher life she had not
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civilian clothes, jeans and a T-shirt, lacking all the pompous
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Socrates passionate? He was a boring, pompous, moralizing pest
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The trouble with his idea was not the idea, it was the fact that he himself was a selfish vain pompous asshole, he did not share his idea with other ethnic races or nations
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How can you do that? If everyone laughed at pompous prigs how long do you think they would remain sheltered in their pomposity? They would either have to become recluses and stay in their holes: or stop being pompous
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As long as Americans have a pompous strutting President who is never wrong and never makes a mistake: they’re happy
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Strutting, pompous, fat, lazy haters: who preach hate, practice hate, and hate themselves and hate their own women… and are henpecked and browbeaten by them
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stovepipe hats, spoke of their pompous self-
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Germans had become so healthy, and so proud of their male culture and so arrogant of their new, young superiority: that they stole the pompous strutting of Mussolini’s black guard, and turned it into a military tradition for the entire Nation
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That millions of human beings would die and suffer horrible loss and weep for their loved ones and have their lives ruined because a few pompous jackasses wanted to play war games and try out their new toys of mass destruction… was brought home to the Kaiser during the first week of mobilization when all of Germany was preparing to defend itself against Russia and attack France at the same time
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And what did the Russian Tsar do? He fired his generals who told him that Russia had lost the war and personally lost the war himself and in doing so destroyed the entire morale of the Russian army who deserted and went back to their farms and that is how and why the Russian revolution began… because the Russian peasants finally woke up and realized they were being ruled and destroyed by an incompetent idiot, an incompetent, pompous strutting little henpecked twit
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If the small handful of evil senile pompous assholes who planned and gave the orders had been killed dead: it would have saved millions of lives, and saved human civilization and all humanity from sinking deeper and deeper into worse evil
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They made sure that fucking pompous asshole, the Russian tsar would begin a massive arming and mobilization of his entire fucking army that alerted all of Europe to the impending invasion of millions of massed hordes of dehumanized Russian serfs, illiterate medieval, slave-peasants… who would be invading all of Europe and burning their towns and cities to the ground and raping their women and slaughtering their children
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Instead, that timid ass of a pompous fake Wilhelm always took the worst advice: not the best
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Hitler, Bismarck and Wilhelm had the exact same ambition: imperial dynastic rule of Germany over the world as a war nation: crushing other nations under its booted heel as vainglorious conquering heroes; the myth of an obsolete Teutonic warrior culture being not only preserved but acted out by this pompous spineless jackass
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'Pelican! Pelican!' mocked the zebra, imitating the bird's pompous voice, and then pulled at Loofah's other sleeve with its teeth
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I was tired and hungry and right now the thought of pulling the pompous white hided racist across the counter and pummeling him half to death sounded like a good idea
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Like a good many critics now-a-days, they forget that screams are not criticism, and that it is only vulgar tastes that are influenced by strings of superlatives, three-piled hyperboles, and pompous epithets
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Black victorias drive in between pompous pillars with plaster shields stuck to them
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Under the arch of the Opera House large faces and lean ones, the powdered and the hairy, all alike were red in the sunset; and, quickened by the great hanging lamps with their repressed primrose lights, by the tramp, and the scarlet, and the pompous ceremony, some ladies looked for a moment into steaming bedrooms near by, where women with loose hair leaned out of windows, where girls--where children--(the long mirrors held the ladies suspended) but one must follow; one must not block the way
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And in estimating the men too, may I not fairly make a like request, that I should have a judge whose mind can enter into and see through human nature? he must not be like a child who looks at the outside and is dazzled at the pompous aspect which the tyrannical nature assumes to the beholder, but let him be one who has a clear insight
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had informed me on several occasions over the years how Dave was a pompous ass who could
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Dave Clark was still pretty much too pompous for his own good, especially after a few
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Having delivered himself of this pompous address, uttered with a degree of energy that left the baron almost out of breath, he bowed to the assembled party and withdrew to his drawing-room, whose sumptuous furnishings of white and gold had caused a great sensation in the Chaussee d'Antin
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He is a little stiff and pompous in his manner, and he is disfigured by his uniform; but when it becomes known that he has been for eighteen years in the Austrian service, all that will be pardoned
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I know well, demon, that you have penetrated into the darkness of the past, and that you have read, by the light of what torch I know not, every page of my life; but perhaps I may be more honorable in my shame than you under your pompous coverings
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The pompous procession therefore wended its way towards Pere-la-Chaise from the Faubourg Saint-Honore
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The business about alienating the priory’s ancient rights was rhetoric, the kind of pompous prating that all students were taught at Oxford
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” He knew he was sounding pompous, but he could
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His card, which seemed too small to carry the weight of his academic distinctions, preceded him by a few seconds, and then he entered himself—so large, so pompous, and so dignified that he was the very embodiment of self-possession and solidity
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"John, show these gentlemen out!" A pompous butler ushered us severely to the door, and we found ourselves in the street
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The body, however, was but a pompous trifle, and I had for many a day held his observes and admonishments in no very reverential
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And there was also to be seen Captain Mitchell, a little apart, near one of the long windows, with an air of old-fashioned neat old bachelorhood about him, slightly pompous, in a white waistcoat, a little disregarded and unconscious of it; utterly in the dark, and imagining himself to be in the thick of things