Where the style is not pompously high-flown, it is often painfully and uninspiringly literal . . . It is also peppered with Latinisms ."
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:: As for " flowery, " no, I do not write in a style that could be considred dry, pedantic or pompously boring.
33.
Gomes pompously arrived in Tanur and brought with him his interpreter Pedro Luis, along with 60 Portuguese soldiers under the command of Captain Garcia de Sa.
34.
When Mankiewicz argues that Hearst is too powerful to take on, Welles pompously tells him, " I expected more from you, Mank ."
35.
What a coup ( and such an expensive one ) for its next owner to gloat pompously when pontificating : " this belonged to Garbo ."
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Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life ."
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Waddell, in particular, is winning, striking the perfect balance of intelligence and vulnerability, as is Annis, who's cluelessly, pompously and vexingly proper.
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A crude, hyperbolic narration, pompously declaimed by John Ventimiglia in the announcing style of a 1950s newsreel, has the tedious redundancy of a stack of gushy press releases.
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He explained that although Mac occasionally acts pompously, this approach is " a mask that he puts on to keep people at distance when he gets afraid or embarrassed ".
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The wedding was first pompously celebrated at Anuka's house in Kvishkheti and then at the court of Heraclius's father, Teimuraz II of Kartli, in Tbilisi.
