Pompous in example sentence

People who expect Spinal Tap-like attempt on satire would be disappointed by the light-hearted nature of the movie, but I'd take a successful self-ironic romp of Still Crazy over a pompous but failed shot at satire which is Spinal Tap.

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It was just like that, because what you started to see is that all of these grand statesmen, these very pompous politicians, they were just like us.

Now, I know it's a bit pompous, my response, but it's an important distinction, because I don't believe that what we need is sensitivity training.

There’d be a pompous paper parliament who remained out of touch, and who ignored the people's protests about all the paper cuts, then the peaceful paper protests would get blown to paper pieces, by the confetti cannons manned by pre-emptive police.

But Kanner took a dim view of these abilities, claiming that the kids were just regurgitating things they'd heard their pompous parents say, desperate to earn their approval.

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