How to Use pomposity in a Sentence

pomposity

noun
  • Beyond this, the film also sends up the perils and pomposity of the art world.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The power, the pomposity, the fun of commanding a room.
    — Eve Barlow, GQ, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The pomposity genes that so many politicians carry seem to have passed him by.
    — Elizabeth Drew, The New Republic, 1 June 2018
  • Comics can garner applause and earn street cred for letting some air out of the pomposity of these events.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Unlike The Last Face, which was full of A-list pomposity, this one feels like a small family project.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 12 July 2021
  • What delighted me even more than the excellence of the food and wine was the lack of cynicism and pomposity.
    — Steve King, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Grove’s text is clear, practical and free of both pomposity and jargon.
    — The Economist, 30 Jan. 2020
  • All this pomposity, yet it’s come to be known many ’70s hip-hop OGs actually looked down on freestyling as a show of unpreparedness.
    — Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 19 Sep. 2023
  • There will be plenty more rhetoric, pomposity and grandiloquence in the next few weeks as negotiations between the union and MLB get hot and heavy.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 13 May 2020
  • But money is the only thing behind this — besides, perhaps, a dose of pomposity.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2019
  • The queen’s willingness to poke fun at herself and puncture the pomposity of her position also endeared her to the public.
    — Chris Stokel-Walker, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Part of his schtick is elevating the unseen everyday to deluxe status, poking fun at the pomposity of the fashion beast.
    — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Robert Gibby Brand has a field day as their father Polonius, a font of pomposity whose verbal overkill cannot disguise his genuine love for his children.
    — Robert W. Butler, kansascity.com, 17 June 2017
  • Benjamin Harrison, the first to be recorded, in 1889, for instance, had a pomposity of delivery that would doom him today.
    — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
  • But there are times, especially in the record’s first half, when the band’s societal broadsides veer into pomposity.
    — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 2 May 2022
  • For me, a little Lisztian pomposity — all those thundering octaves and sparkling trebles — goes a long way.
    — Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Doyle enjoys poking fun at Doyle, his habit of making sure his books are stocked at various bookstores, his dour pomposity.
    — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The words have a mock solemnity to them, as if poking fun at the pomposity of 19th-century inscriptions and memorials.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The revelation is Mortensen, who is quick and quiet, revering the text while not allowing that awe to shade into stiffness or pomposity.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • One gorgeous gray ink painting of a fish dates back to the 13th century, but wears a fresh expression of comic pomposity that would easily fit in a TV cartoon.
    — Will Heinrich, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Not to mention: food, wine, overblown French accents, and ludicrous pomposity.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2023
  • One of the darkest comedies ever created about the art world covering issues of race, class, gender and pomposity.
    — Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 29 Nov. 2017
  • Some of his most memorable work focused on mocking the pomposity and dubious ethics of powerful men.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Some of his most memorable work focused on mocking the pomposity and dubious ethics of powerful men.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Some of his most memorable work focused on mocking the pomposity and dubious ethics of powerful men.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The original’s impact has been dimmed in hindsight by its sequels, which landed, one right after the other, as dispiriting duds, crushed by their own pomposity.
    — Adam Sternbergh, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
  • No wonder his contemporaries have rushed to help prop up Elder’s Passion play of pomposity.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Even as her fame increased, so did the attacks against her, from accusations of pomposity to charges of contempt, obscenity and sedition.
    — Ron Charles, The Denver Post, 31 May 2017
  • As established in Paddington 2, King brings out something special in Grant, somehow coaxing a unique blend of Grant’s rom-com befuddlement and pomposity into a vanity-free sense of abandon.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The Ally has chosen sink themselves with pomposity, a humorless sense of holiness, or, worse still, plain canniness — a cynical nod to the selling power of relevance lurking inside a righteous agenda.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024

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