Steven Wilson

People who like progressive music tend to sneer at the idea of a kind of punk aesthetic, and people who like alternative indie rock or punk rock tend to sneer at what they see as the pretentiousness and pomposity of progressive music.

English Musician

Billy Childish

We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.

English Artist

Ash Sarkar

This is what people have been missing: politics shouldn't be about the dour cultishness and pomposity that dominated the left for decades - it should be joyful and exuberant.

British Journalist

Molly Ivins

Rush Limbaugh's pathetic abuse of logic, his absurd pomposity, his relentless self-promotion, his ridiculous ego - now those, friends, are appropriate targets for satire.

American Journalist

Daryl Hall

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

American Musician

Rush Limbaugh

Liberals sit from this lofty perch of pomposity, but they are the champions of ignorance. They don't know what they're talking about.

American Entertainer

Vikrant Massey

In all pomposity and humility, I just wanted to show what I could do as an actor, and I jumped when 'Lootera' came my way.

Indian Actor

Russell Howard

I don't really have a political agenda, I just like things to be fair - I get angered by pomposity and privilege.

English Comedian

Fiona Shaw

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

Irish Actress

Roy Lichtenstein

Picasso's sculpture has incredible strength combined with a lack of pomposity.

American Artist

Pomposity usually suggests someone is unlikably proud or self-absorbed.

Negative Connotation

Often used to mock or criticize subtle self-importance.

Subtle Mockery

Describes a persistent trait, not a temporary attitude.

Character Trait

Suggests using unnecessarily formal language to seem important.

Overly Formal

What seems like pomposity may be cultural formality in some contexts.

Cultural Sensitivity

 and they substitute abstract entities for human beings. Here's an example. "The proliferation of nominalizations in a discursive formation may be an indication of a tendency towards pomposity and abstraction." Huh?