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Перевод: pomposity

[существительное]
напыщенность ; помпезность

Тезаурус:

1. As with William Temple, who looked equally natural in gaiters and apron, the bubbling humour and lack of pomposity heightened the effect of the personality.
2. No such pomposity was to be found in the British Caribbean islands.
3. Murray's manner was habitually dignified to the verge of pomposity; nocturnal rugby was a juvenile predilection for which both protagonists were too old.
4. In spite of his success, Asimov steered clear of literary pomposity.
5. Why does he seem to equate circumlocutory pomposity with profundity?
6. After the hearing, Mr Loveluck-Edwards said: "We are quite good friends, apart from this explosion of pomposity.
7. Their styles - apart from those of the British West Indies - are generally variations on Renaissance themes, Italianate, Spanish, Second Empire, reflecting national aspirations and the pomposity of civic and national pride of many regimes.
8. It is true that baroque had long been adopted as the style for state capitols in the United States, but the Beaux-Arts style in all its overblown pomposity was to reflect this new sense of greatness.
9. The preacher's arrogance and pomposity made Rosebery erupt: "He is a buffoon without the merits of a buffoon."
10. Not many patrons wrote with such pomposity, though it was usual in subscription proposals or prefaces to volumes by labouring poets to include a description of the author as hard-working, moral, and content within his or her station.
11. Roy Jenkins's appearance had "the sleek pomposity of Mr Podsnap."
12. The principal of the college was Jimmie Seaton, a plump, cheerful, outgoing little man known as Friar Tuck, who bubbled with amusement and good sense of vitality and who liked people and gardening while he hated committees and pomposity.
13. Anyone who has ever suffered at the hands of military pomposity will relish the story of General Patton inspecting a hospital in France and screaming abuse at a man for not coming to attention in his presence, only to be told "Run along, asshole.