Not only was it difficult to decipher, but sentences, even paragraphs, that could have been summed up with a few words were expounded upon pompously for pages.
www.stuff.co.nz Proof in point: the pompously mannered sentence following this footnote.
www.gq.com Poisonous politicians are carnally cantankerous, critically incorrect, increasingly indecorous, deeply dishonest, highly hypocritical, pompously prideful, morally bankrupt, insignificantly productive, uncivilized, self-centred, and wicked!
www.ghanaweb.com The album is all so very pompously glossy, with all kinds of poetry about school, friendship and mutual understanding, with pages separated by parchment paper.
www.itv.com Junior critics have pompously opined on its deplorable humanism and provincialism in contrast with those thrilling avant-gardists sur le continong.
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