His wife, by a pomposity of manner and an assumption of superior knowledge, succeeded, where no other white woman has succeeded, in acquiring the respect and intimacy of the great ladies of Japan.
His American manners and his pomposityhad both been laid aside with the tweed suit and the swallow-tail.
It is a fact of general observation that there is no pomposity like the pomposity of littleness.
Yet Mrs. White talks in an amusing strain of pomposity about his and her family and connections, and affects to look down with wondrous hauteur on the whole race of tradesfolk, as she terms men of business.
I have made it brief, because I wished to avoid any appearance of pomposityor pretension.
His eloquence was that of a tribune of the romantic school, and as one listened to him one could divine that in spite of all his pomposityhe was really a worthy, tender-hearted and somewhat foolish man.
For the moment, Johnson's old pomposity had returned to him, but in the next, a wave of despondency bore it down.
Mrs. Fairfax said of her brother-in-law that he was a "vain creature whose pomposity stood in place of dignity.
Antony remembered Miss Mitty and that his uncle was a pillar of the Church, and he watched the pillar support in grave pomposity his part of the edifice.
Mr. Pompositysubsided somewhat, and I proceeded to talk United States to him.
He was very poor, and mingled pomposity with obsequiousness, so that Arthur felt convinced he was to be bought, body and soul, what there was of him.
The slight pomposityof look and manner had disappeared.
The witness of MacGrawler was delivered with a pomposity worthy of the ex-editor of the "Asinaeum.
Young Georgy lorded over this soft and yielding nature; and the contrast of its simplicity and delicacy with the coarsepomposity of the dull old man with whom he next came in contact made him lord over the latter too.
I am not going to imitate the pomposity of Lord Beaconsfield, which I have just denounced, by talking nonsense about Salons, the Eighteenth Century, or of the spirit of Mme.
This epitaph has not the usual flowery pomposity that one would expect to find in the case of a man of his age and occupation and position.
His pomposity was on the surface, and his stiffness and hauteur were but the mannerisms with which some men are cursed.
I should have expressed my displeasure if I had felt it," said his father with all the pomposity that was natural to him.
He knew that Francis in his place would have done somehow differently; he could almost hear Aunt Barbara laughing at the pomposity of the situation that had suddenly erected itself monstrously in front of him.
It may be inferred that there was a touch of pomposity about this admirable gentleman, who was so excellent a landlord and so hard working a member of the British aristocracy.
She was walking with insulting pomposity in her most pronounced semicircular manner.
He walked with a faint, shuffling suggestion of a prance, a lissome pomposity adopted in obedience to the art-sense within him which bade him harmonize himself with occasions of state and fashion.
Then calling his homespun pomposity to his aid, he added, with a show of bravado, "I can't see it.
Hoodlums are seldom dangerous to other hoodlums, but if they catch pomposity alone in the field, pomposity is their prey.
It is only a red herring, or an old hat, which he has invested with such pomposity of shadow and darkness.
There was no pomposity about Lord Holmhurst now--all that had gone--and nothing but the simple gallant nature of the English gentleman remained.
