All 7 Uses of
pompous
in
Arrowsmith
- In the fetid train, huddled close, hands locked, innocently free of the alienation which the pomposity of weddings sometimes casts between lovers, they sighed, "Now what are we going to do—what ARE we going to do?"†
Chpt 9 *
- Always an elaborately careful worker, a maker of long rows of figures, always realizing the presence of uncontrollable variables, always a vicious assailant of what he considered slackness or lie or pomposity, never too kindly to well-intentioned stupidity, he worked in the laboratories of Koch, of Pasteur, he followed the early statements of Pearson in biometrics, he drank beer and wrote vitriolic letters, he voyaged to Italy and England and Scandinavia, and casually, between two…†
Chpt 12
- If they talked too much of money—of how much this new tincture of cinchona ought to sell, and how soon their salaries would be increased—yet they were free of the careful pomposities of college instructors.†
Chpt 13
- If you get 'em, you become pompous, and then when you're used to 'em, if you lose 'em you feel foolish.†
Chpt 29
- Gottlieb explained to Martin that, though of course Sholtheis was a fool, yet he was the only man in sight who combined at least a little scientific ability with a willingness to endure the routine and pomposity and compromises of executive work.†
Chpt 30
- It happened that he was, without Martin or Gottlieb ever understanding it, the most brilliant as well as the least pompous and therefore least appreciated warrior against epidemics that the world has known.†
Chpt 33
- I will not get buried in this pompous fakery of giving orders and—†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(pompous) behaving with excessive self-importance -- often with exaggerated dignity or ceremonial splendor
or more rarely: showing ceremonial splendor (pomp)