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Resentment is narrated, like Another City , by a grumpy writer who lives at the Chateau Marmont hotel; at the same time, Dunne himself appears as a character, as a columnist-novelist named Fawbus Kennedy who is variously called "the kind of nothing this culture has been moving toward for decades," a "third-rate middlebrow Depends ad," and a "pompous mediocrity of a type unprecedented and decidedly unwelcome in this kind of grave proceeding."
Phrases like mutually agreed and were intermarried are plainly pompous rather than precise, as are removed for `moved,' determine for `terminate,' and many more.
I had hopes for Hillary, who seems senator material to me: smart and pompous and possessed with a regal bearing totally out of proportion to her dime-store roots.
The publication of two new books about former editor William Shawn has inspired another round of pompous elegies for the grand old New Yorker .)
Just by the by, it sounds as if you disapprove of this man's "pompous friends" and growing arrogance, so give the friendship a decent burial, emotionally, remember the good times, and move on.