Was she going to look purposely stilted and bored, as though to lampoon this self-important event?
grantland.com That is, it's a large, self-important, incident-by-incident biopic crammed with luxuriant period detail, laden with old-age make-up and powered by meticulous but riskless acting.
inthesetimes.com He is also ill-tempered, self-important, overbearing, scheming, two-faced, abusive, selfish and thievish.
en.wikipedia.org He is upright and well -meaning, although also pompous and self-important.
en.wikipedia.org The rocket is extremely pompous and self-important, and denigrates all the other fireworks, eventually bursting into tears to demonstrate his sensitivity.
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