Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they never have been. It is axiomatic that journalists opinions should be strictly separated from news, a line that should be scrupulously adhered to both in regard to a newspaper's own pundits and those hired by others. This is particularly true in theater criticism, where only the most pompous critic would claim that his judgment, communicated to thousands of readers, is even marginally more newsworthy than the judgment of his neighbor, who communicates it only to her husband in the seat next to her. The logical extension of this new Crimson policy (which has never been triggered into effect...
...these notes, last year's Christmas special, dealt with English, French, and German masterpieces. It turns out that Nabokov knew a great deal more about Russian literature than about any other. Certainly he is more comfortable in this second volume. He is still, as always, petulant, self-indulgent, and pompous, and since Nabokov insists upon his own status in the Pantheon of literature--which was not so obvious when he was writing these lectures--he has made a conspicuous target of himself...
...York City. Harrison was celebrated for his skills at organizing disparate groups of architects to work on grand municipal projects. Rockefeller Center is considered a prime, innovative example of modern design, but Lincoln Center and the Empire State Plaza in Albany have been widely criticized as banal and pompous. Harrison's bold, romantic impulses can best be seen in works like the Trylon and the Perisphere, which symbolized the confident mood of the 1939 World's Fair...
...four farces. The constant rotation fosters an appreciation for the different inflections of the characterizations, but it also builds a sense of team spirit. Serban drives the point home by bridging the last two farces with a center-stage costume change. Genuinely enjoying themselves, the actors mock the pompous Renaissance trumpet music in the background and banter boisterously about nothing in particular...
...transaction to be risk free. This includes intellectuals so disdainful of pop culture as to be innocent about it. Suddenly, in order to flog a book, they find themselves in a studio talking trivia with Merv or Kup or Mike, shedding their standoffishness and their standards to avoid looking pompous on-camera...