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It's from Rolfe's literary narration, which is helpful in clarifying people's motives but ultimately annoying, since only an inexpert storyteller needs that much pompous clarification.
Why did you choose two pompous, straight, white ultranerds for your subjects?
(Chatterbox would prefer not to invoke the phrase "intellectual dishonesty," because it's pompous and falsely suggests that only intellectuals can be intellectually dishonest.
One tiny typo, one dropped letter would transform the headline into a dark and pompous assertion about the human race: "HE'S HUGE, HE'S POWERFUL, HE'S FAST AND HE'S MAN."
The publication of two new books about former editor William Shawn has inspired another round of pompous elegies for the grand old New Yorker .)