Charlie gripped her elbow and said in a pompous way, "Eleanor, come along."

The public aren't that stupid - it's very insulting of them to imagine they are, in their pompous, intellectual way.

They can, in their pompous judicial way, take umbrage.

"Well, I daresay you'll do," he said at last, in a pompous way.

Just because he cross-questioned you a bit about the details of your accident - in his pompous way.

"You must climb out of this pit by yourself," he began, addressing me in his pompous and figurative way.

What a pompous way of putting it.

As for "people of color," what is it but a pompous way of saying "colored people"?

And you don't have to present stories in the same boring and pompous way that the network evening news programs do.

Scenes were depicted in a pompous and theatrical way, although not lacking emotional tension.