What's the difference between overblown and pompous?
Overblown
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "In the same way as the camera tells a different story to reality, it's the same on stage; the gestures that might seem incredibly overblown in the moment are played out differently.
(2) • 1050 East Palm Canyon Drive (+1 760 323 1858, thehorizonhotel.com ); double rooms from $109 The Movie Colony Movie Colony, Palm Springs Concierge John-Michael swears that Jim Morrison made the leap from balcony to pool here in 1969, and that Frank Sinatra was a resident while his nearby home was being renovated – and even though the myth of celebrity tends to get overblown, if not utterly fabricated, in southern California, we found no reason not to take him at his word.
(3) In the Prussian capital, hippie culture is state policy.” 'In the Prussian capital, hippie culture is state policy' Die Welt deputy editor Ulf Poschardt The rhetoric may be overblown, but the remarkable fact is that Berlin will ultimately not further develop a hugely valuable piece of real estate, all because the people decided they didn’t trust big business not to mess up the park they loved.
(4) The prime minister dismissed claims that the health service was suffering a humanitarian crisis as “irresponsible and overblown” in a series of exchanges over the situation.
(5) Of course, the overblown rhetoric coming from politicians fails to acknowledge that talks with the Taliban were at an embryonic stage.
(6) Henning said the dramatic share sell-off may yet prove overblown.
(7) This is a damning portrait of football, the overblown great and simple game, of course, but it is also a more general indictment of a society in which endemic, grindingly low levels of pay, too little to live on with dignity, are actually set by the government, while vast individual wealth is idolised.
(8) Comparisons with Algeria in 1991 – when the regime cancelled a second round of elections that the Islamists seemed poised to win – may be overblown.
(9) Comments by the well-known anti-terrorist Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón describing Qatada as the "spiritual head of the mujahedin in Britain" were dismissed by British security and intelligence sources as overblown rhetoric.
(10) White House officials are keen to play down expectations of any formal summit communique or statement from the Chinese, who feel the issue has been overblown.
(11) Russia's sports minister, Vitaly Mutko, said at the weekend that the law does not violate any rights and called worries that it would infringe upon the freedoms of athletes and spectators "overblown," the state R-Sport news agency reported.
(12) After the jet-black high school satire Heathers pulled the rug out from under John Hughes and his oversharing Brat Pack, in 1989, American adolescents were left with few offerings, most of them wistful odes to another age – either stylistically, as with the overblown, pirate-radio-themed Christian Slater vehicle Pump Up the Volume; or quite literally, in the case of Richard Linklater’s nostalgia-fuelled 70s pastiche, Dazed and Confused.
(13) Threadneedle Street got quite sniffy when it was suggested that the FLS would be a bung to the high street banks benefiting only Britain's vociferous and overblown housing lobby?
(14) This tax story may be minor, it may be overblown, it may be unfair on David Cameron.
(15) Watch it here: ) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 2.59pm GMT Dianne Feinstein has not garnered much praise in the last year from civil liberties and privacy advocates, many of whom see her as having been too deferential to the intelligence community – of allowing testimony to go unchallenged, of making overblown claims for the efficacy of surveillance programs, of siding with the intelligence chiefs over the public.
(16) In mitigation the 61-year-old boyhood Sunderland fan trimmed back an overblown squad he inherited from Steve Bruce but he made some perplexing fringe additions including Louis Saha and James McFadden, both recently released.
(17) Overblown spin suggested that a single credit might promote marriages and iron out every inherent tension between relieving poverty and rewarding self-improvement.
(18) From this, Garrone takes his opening of the film, in order to pastiche a massively overblown wedding for Enzo, the returning star of Big Brother made good, and to send up the absurdity of the show generally.
(19) From what I understand, however, Brighton's basic principles are still the same: remaindered hippy culture is matched with nightclub hedonism, gay pride, south-eastern wealth and bien-pensant London refugees to create a vibrant, progressive, occasionally overblown new city.
(20) Some foreign diplomats in Havana say allegations of forced labour in the programme appear overblown.
Pompous
Definition:
(a.) Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
(1) Leave aside the noxious and pompous view that the views of non-national-security-professionals - whatever that means - should be ignored when it comes to militarism, US foreign policy and war crimes.
(2) On last Friday's Radio 4 Today programme , the historian Robert Service played his part to perfection, pompously advising the BBC to "get some sense of proportion".
(3) He says that the idea of the corrupt, lying, pompous politician has become "the equivalent of the mother-in-law or Irish joke of the 1970s".
(4) As the debate reached its conclusion, Stockwood, dressed grandly in a purple cassock and pompously fondling his crucifix in a way that was devastatingly lampooned by Rowan Atkinson a week later on a Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch, delivered his parting shot of, "You'll get your 30 pieces of silver."
(5) She was terrifying but not pompous, and she could be quite playful, quite cosy in a strange way."
(6) Auda is more of a problem: his character is portrayed as an unreformed savage who cares only for violence, treasure and his own pompous self-image.
(7) Giles Oakley London • In conception and format, it was trite – while being undeservedly pompous and self-esteeming.
(8) About three years ago, he was teasing me about something – being thick probably, or making pompous speeches.
(9) His chairman, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, was more magnificently pompous, as befits an ex-foreign secretary.
(10) Please don't read my pompous views above as referring to the great majority of gallery shows, where dealers display art they hope someone will want to buy for their home, and new collectors are born every week.
(11) When those inside the temple are pompous hypocrites, maybe it is the better place to be.
(12) Those who actively seek out linguistic slip-ups will correct you with such glee that it makes you doubt whether their commitment to "calling out" bigotry matches their commitment to pompous arseholerly.
(13) Chaplin himself wrote about this process: "Sometimes a musician would get pompous with me, and I would cut him short: 'Whatever the melody is, the rest is just a vamp.'
(14) I realised that my goal here really is to represent – it sounds super-pompous – how we think and how we associate.
(15) "Without wishing to sound pompous, I do more research now than ever.
(16) I will leave the public to judge his actions.” Mick Cash, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, said it should be no surprise that his black cab members across London were considering “a boycott of the Tory toff David Mellor over his outrageous, pompous and disgraceful tirade against one of their colleagues”.
(17) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – five reasons we're still slightly worried Read more This caped crusader has had a personality upgrade Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Warner Bros The Batman we met in The Lego Movie aways seemed an unlikely candidate for his own solo film, a pompous jerk who was more Flash Thompson than Bruce Wayne.
(18) It was as absurd for a Tory MP to demand Abbott's resignation from the shadow cabinet on account of this remark as it was for Ed Miliband to tell her pompously "in no uncertain terms" that it had been "unacceptable".
(19) It's pompous twaddle with no relevance to fucking anything."
(20) This is all the more surprising since Tolstoy seems to speak freely, in his fiction, with the sort of moralistic-prophetic voice – the voice of a teacher of right and wrong – that lesser writers are obliged to use sparingly, unless they want to sound pompous and didactic.