His conversation was a curious mixture of pomposity and wantonness.
Sa conversation était un curieux mélange de pomposity et wantonness.
Without rushing, without pomposity and without arrogance, he waited until the fruits of his mind matured.
Sans précipitation, sans pomposity et sans arrogance, il a attendu jusqu'à ce que les fruits de son esprit a mûri.
Yet I believe that this meeting may, and please forgive my pomposity, be of historic importance.
Mais je pense que le sommet qui aura lieu dans deux jours peut, passez-moi l'emphase, être historique.
The pomposity of his texts conveys pedantry and arrogance.
La pompe de ses textes transmet pédanterie et arrogance.
Holly dismissed her opponent in the election with Olympian pomposity.
Holly a écarté son adversaire aux élections avec une pompe olympienne.
I didn't like the pomposity of his arrival.
Je n'ai pas aimé la pompe de son arrivée.
The king's speech, with its pomposity and vacuity, left his subjects unmoved.
Le discours du roi, avec sa pompe et sa vacuité, laissa ses sujets indifférents.
The pomposity the author uses to address his readers seems ridiculous and unnecessary nowadays.
La pompe avec laquelle l’auteur s’adresse à ses lecteurs nous paraît aujourd’hui ridicule et inutile.
The pomposity of legal language often makes it difficult to understand things that are otherwise not complex at all.
La pompe du langage juridique rend souvent difficile la compréhension de choses autrement simples.
The much imitated style of this writer is characterized by a great pomposity very much to the liking of the century in which he lived and wrote.
Le style très imité de cet écrivain se caractérise par une grande pompe, très appréciée à l'époque où il a vécu et écrit.
He's full of pomposity and fancies himself a great wine connoisseur.
Il se pavane avec arrogance et se donne des airs de grand connaisseur de vins.
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