Examples of pomp in a Sentence
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Image The original Dragon’s Dogma, from 2012, married robust combat with slow, methodical adventuring and baroque, anime-esque pomp.
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Lewis Gordon, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
But—as the frankly silly breadsticks foreshadowed—the pomp of the place never lapses into tedium.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2024
Oscars The 96th Academy Awards delivered both pomp and politics during Sunday night’s ceremony.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 11 Mar. 2024
The city of puritan cant, left-wing pomp, and the meanest ...
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 4 Jan. 2024
What follows is a haunting collection of dirges and hymns that fuses the high points of his career: the symphonic pomp of 2005's Illinois, the electronic maximalism of 2010's The Age of Adz, and the spartan folk of 2015's Carrie & Lowell, a work inspired by the death of his mother.
—Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2023
The event is high on pomp and ceremony, and also on control: Traffic is rerouted and security is dramatically tightened.
—Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
And for centuries the fork remained suspect in Europe, as the effete accessory of aristocrats; as late as the 17th century, Louis XIV, amid the pomp of Versailles, is said to have insisted on grabbing food — off a gold plate — with his fingers.
—Ligaya Mishan Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
The Super Bowl will have a kickoff time of 6:30 p.m. ET, although with the pomp and pageantry of the event, that has a margin of error of a few minutes.
—Gabe Zaldivar, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024
Lewis Gordon, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
But—as the frankly silly breadsticks foreshadowed—the pomp of the place never lapses into tedium.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2024
Oscars The 96th Academy Awards delivered both pomp and politics during Sunday night’s ceremony.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 11 Mar. 2024
The city of puritan cant, left-wing pomp, and the meanest ...
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 4 Jan. 2024
What follows is a haunting collection of dirges and hymns that fuses the high points of his career: the symphonic pomp of 2005's Illinois, the electronic maximalism of 2010's The Age of Adz, and the spartan folk of 2015's Carrie & Lowell, a work inspired by the death of his mother.
—Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2023
The event is high on pomp and ceremony, and also on control: Traffic is rerouted and security is dramatically tightened.
—Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
And for centuries the fork remained suspect in Europe, as the effete accessory of aristocrats; as late as the 17th century, Louis XIV, amid the pomp of Versailles, is said to have insisted on grabbing food — off a gold plate — with his fingers.
—Ligaya Mishan Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
The Super Bowl will have a kickoff time of 6:30 p.m. ET, although with the pomp and pageantry of the event, that has a margin of error of a few minutes.
—Gabe Zaldivar, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024
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“Pomp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pomp. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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