This is just pompousness on the part of the reviewer. From Wordnik.com. [Peer Review of Bürger and Cubasch « Climate Audit] Reference
He is a hidalgo of blue blood in pride, pompousness and poverty. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
His customary arrogance and pompousness of manner were laid aside. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
I confess, I find the pompousness of naturalists on this subject rather funny. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference
Your self-righteous pompousness and our hypocrisy will be your downfall one day. From Wordnik.com. [punditarians - Anil Dash] Reference
In short, despite his super-star status he did not have any sort of pompousness. From Wordnik.com. [Bernanke, the Fed and the Monetary Theory of the Trade Cycle - The Austrian Economists] Reference
The judge must have tacked on six months for its insufferable pompousness alone. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » 30 Months] Reference
He had a pompousness or formal plenitude in his conversation which I did not dislike. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference
In verse, he has a pomp which, excellent in itself, became pompousness in his imitators. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
"I love how Titusraisealittlehell perfectly punctures the pompousness of many posters...". From Wordnik.com. [An Althouse blog fund-raiser.] Reference
And of course now I notice how he "perfectly punctures the pompousness of many posters...". From Wordnik.com. [An Althouse blog fund-raiser.] Reference
Absolutely no pompousness, pretentiousness or pedantry those things are what I'm there for. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference
He says of himself with something of pompousness, "I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.". From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
These facts often never make the MSM which strictures and stifles itself with cloying PC pompousness. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Raven was as free from intellectual pompousness as William James; as candidly receptive to candid thinking. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
I love the fighting strains of puritanism and hedonism, atheism and religiosity, pompousness and silliness. From Wordnik.com. [I love my country. Really - emergency weblog; or: epersonae; or: elaine nelson] Reference
It captured the frustrations of my peers so accurately, despite all its moral pompousness, that I felt nauseous. From Wordnik.com. [Maegan Carberry: Skyscrapers vs. Sunshine: A Bicoastal Craig's List Tale of Two Cities] Reference
May 25, 2006, 8: 52 am credit debt counseling says: credit debt counseling pompousness plaid blame. congresswomen push. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Thanks for the restaurant recommendations:] Reference
If you are ever going to be shown the errors of pompousness and prejudice I hope you are as lucky as I was in this case. From Wordnik.com. [become a regular] Reference
There are other times when the attitude, severely impartial and studiously aloof, accuses itself of a little pompousness. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
That is a perfect example of the blatant pompousness that started at the top and went all the way to the bottom with Enron. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2004] Reference
But Brad Pitt with his knob nose and childish pompousness???. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
Your air of pompousness is quite nauseating to say the least. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
A great landowner was remarkable for the pompousness of his manner. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1906] Reference
Searching for art in Sleep, doesn't it betray our own pompousness?. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
If JD is pompous, then the type of pompousness he demonstrated we need more of. From Wordnik.com. [Jihad Monitor] Reference
"A great many considerations influence me," he said with a touch of pompousness. From Wordnik.com. [Quisanté] Reference
None of the deacon's pompousness was abated as he entered the house and the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Cash Boy] Reference
He had heavy and bilious eyes, and a certain pompousness of manner distinguished him. From Wordnik.com. [Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country] Reference
The diatribes voiced on Fox versus the pompousness of MSNBC and mainstream media are pathetic. From Wordnik.com. [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference
Although he has no problem using the word "herewith" -- he's never been lacking in pompousness. From Wordnik.com. [pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator] Reference
Susie was convulsed with laughter at his pompousness, and he turned to her with the utmost gravity. From Wordnik.com. [The Magician] Reference
It emanated alike from the graciousness of M. le Comte de Cambray and the pompousness of his majordomo. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days] Reference
Cleaver greeted him with just that amount of pompousness that Jim enjoyed and took his wet coat from him. From Wordnik.com. [The Black] Reference
There was no room for pedantry, for the ostentatious display of learning, for pompousness, for affectation. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767] Reference
True, occasionally he lapsed into his favourite pompousness and autocracy, but this made the work more characteristic of the man. From Wordnik.com. [John Forster] Reference
Percy looked down at her; all his imposingness, all his air of importance, and his occasional tinge of pompousness, had entirely vanished. From Wordnik.com. [Bird of Paradise] Reference
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