All 5 Uses of
pomp
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Pomp of death.†
Chpt 6
- —A recently discovered fragment of Cicero, professor MacHugh answered with pomp of tone.†
Chpt 7 *
- The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.†
Chpt 12
- The poor man starves while they are grassing their royal mountain stags or shooting peasants and phartridges in their purblind pomp of pelf and power.†
Chpt 15
- Releasing his thumbs, he invokes grace from on high with large wave gestures and proclaims with bloated pomp:) THE CARDINAL: Conservio lies captured He lies in the lowest dungeon With manacles and chains around his limbs Weighing upwards of three tons.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(pomp) ceremonial elegance and splendor
or:
(archaic) a pretentious or vain display