What's the difference between pomp and pomposity?

Pomp


Definition:

  • (n.) A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
  • (n.) Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
  • (v. i.) To make a pompons display; to conduct.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using a simple fluorometric assay for alpha-glucosidase activity of cultured amniotic cells, we have monitored two pregnancies from families at risk for Pompe's disease.
  • (2) In two infants with Pompe's disease, intralysosomal glycogen was identified in the adrenal cortex and medulla, thyroid gland, parathyroid glands, pancreatic islets, and pituitary gland.
  • (3) He has chosen to live in a modest Vatican hotel room instead of the grandeur of the apostolic palace; and he has dropped some of the papal pomp, while preaching the Roman Catholic church's need to identify with the world's poor.
  • (4) Here, too, Capote displayed uncanny journalistic skills, capturing even the most languid and enigmatic of subjects – Brando in his pomp – and eliciting the kinds of confidences that left the actor reflecting ruefully on his "unutterable foolishness".
  • (5) In contrast, it is highly unlikely China's leader could find fault with the welcome laid out by the Obama administration: a private White House dinner tonight to be followed later in the week by a full state banquet, a 21-gun salute and all the pomp and circumstance of a review of the troops.
  • (6) There is a case to be made, and Francis made it, but as the bills come in one might recall that in her pomp the Thatcher government stopped the funeral grants paid to poor families if it emerged that any of the family members were striking miners.
  • (7) "For the most part the rewards for acquiescing to GOC demands are risible: pomp-full dinners and meetings and, for the most pliant, a photo op with one of the Castro brothers.
  • (8) Nothing in the brief statement justified the huge pomp and circumstance that surrounded it.
  • (9) Evans was in his pomp as Radio 1's breakfast DJ, listened to daily by 7.5 million people.
  • (10) From January 1985 to January 1990, measurements of acid alpha-D-glucosidase activity in amniocytes or chorionic villus samplings were done for 24 pregnant mothers who were carriers of Pompe's disease.
  • (11) Its practicality has been demonstrated in Pompe's disease in which there is a deficiency of acid alpha-1,4-glucosidase (E.C.3.2.1.20).
  • (12) Two-stage gel studies demonstrated an estimated 90% reduction of this protein in Pompe's disease.
  • (13) Helicopters buzzed overhead, tanks thundered past, and fighter jets snaked into the sky during Burma's annual Armed Forces Day celebration on Wednesday, where one unexpected guest sat watching the pomp and ceremony from a front-row seat: opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi .
  • (14) The pH-activity profile of the enzyme from urine of patients with late-onset Pompe's disease can not be distinguished from that of the normal urinary enzyme.
  • (15) Staining techniques for demonstration of various stored materials include: 1) toluidine blue at pH 2.8 for acid mucopolysaccharide in skeletal muscle fibers in Pompe's glycogenesis 2, 2) one-step trichrome stain for nemaline myopathy and for abnormal mitochondria in X-linked infantile cardiomyopathy, 3) periodic acid-methenamine silver stain for glycolipid-containing lysosomes in I-cell disease (mucolipidosis 2), 4) Sudan black B stain for lipid in skeletal muscle fibers in Reye's syndrome, infantile lactic acidosis, Leigh's infantile subacute necrotizing encephalopathy and Jansky-Bielschowsky late infantile ceroid lipofuscinosis, 5) iron stain for iron in cardiac and skeletal muscle fibers in thalassemia with advanced hemosiderosis, and 6) autofluorescence for "ceroid" in skeletal muscle fibers in Jansky-Bielschowsky disease.
  • (16) As he repeats that plea Frazier slips into an impersonation which sounds less like Ali in his fast-talking pomp than his old foe after Parkinson's disease had made his speech slurred and halting.
  • (17) Pompe's disease is characterised by an absence of lysosomal alpha-glucosidase, but this enzyme is also inhibited by Castanospermum australe seeds.
  • (18) "I love that a country capable of extraordinary pomp and ceremony can still retain a spiky irreverence towards its establishment.
  • (19) Her pulmonary hypertension resulted from respiratory muscular atrophy and alveolar hypoventilation caused by Pompe's disease.
  • (20) On Thursday a commentary carried by the official Xinhua news agency described Obama’s visit "a carefully calculated scheme to cage the rapidly developing Asian giant”, adding that "the pomp and circumstance Obama receives … cannot conceal the fact that Tokyo has become a growing liability to Washington's pursuit of long-term interests”.

Pomposity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The eminent historian Niall Ferguson, professor of history at Harvard University and a senior research fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, has jumped to Gove's defence, attacking the "pomposity" of the curriculum's detractors.
  • (2) For many, fantasy is typified by The Lord of the Rings ; Miéville worked up a righteous fury against Tolkien's "cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos", calling him "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature" and setting out to "lance the boil".
  • (3) The pomposity of these attacks is in inverse proportion to their accuracy.
  • (4) You might imagine such scrupulousness would come across as pomposity, but nothing could be further from the truth.
  • (5) Occasionally, however, our paths crossed, and when they did, it appeared to be doing much the same job as ever: pricking pop stars’ pomposity, dealing in irreverence, making people laugh.
  • (6) He made serious political philosophy fun and advanced high moral arguments in a way that stripped them of pretension and pomposity.
  • (7) "), set against the alienating pomposity of the politician ("My social circle expanded beyond my imagination as I went through the cage at Belmarsh").
  • (8) In an era when art has increasingly become a vacuous wealth statement or part of an investment portfolio, Banksy continues to be seen by many as a pomposity-pricking man of the people.
  • (9) It is easy to win a Twitter war with humour and the ability to punch a hole in pomposity and piety.
  • (10) Off the hymn sheet, no soundbites, these irritations are a good antidote to the abundance of self-righteous pomposity.
  • (11) October 15, 2013 Tamara Cohen (@tamcohen) David Amess MP tells hustings for dep speaker 'I deplore pomposity and arrogance'.
  • (12) October 15, 2013 Rowena Mason (@rowenamason) Henry Bellingham says he could help put small stain on family reputation right (his ancestor shot former PM in 1812) #deputyspeakerhustings October 15, 2013 Rowena Mason (@rowenamason) David Amess says he deplores bullying, humiliation + pomposity.
  • (13) Most of the pomposity seemed to come from the mouth of Paul Weller, barely out of his teens and already giving a convincing impression of being the most humourless man ever to pick up a guitar.
  • (14) There is hope – I hope – that Corbyn’s election finally signals a desire in this country to turn our backs on the sharp-suited politics of swagger, greed, pomposity, deceit and thraldom to money, hierarchy and privilege.
  • (15) Now, this story tells us a great deal about Donna Karan, not least that she is refreshingly free from pretentiousness and pomposity when it comes to her chosen field.
  • (16) He detested pomposity as much as he loved the sport that made him a household name, but his death prompts memories of more than three decades when his voice, along with that of the BBC's Harry Carpenter, was inextricably linked with boxing commentary.
  • (17) And while we can all enjoy the pomposity-pricking, falling-on-a-banana-skin fabulousness of it all – just as we do when the cava trumps premier cru in blind tastings – it does raise the question: when we spend a mortgage payment on what is essentially a snack, perhaps we are predisposed to think it's wonderful?
  • (18) The pomposity of its architecture can no longer dignify the log-rolling, the gerrymandering, the lobbyists' egregious power, the money sloshing everywhere, and the partisan polarisation that drips from every news programme.
  • (19) The cocktail of fury, pomposity and hyperbole that reached a climax in the Daily Mail’s preposterous but historic front-page cry “Who will speak for England?” isn’t practical or rational but visceral.
  • (20) Debate phobia shows Cameron is reluctant even to talk the talk Read more Speaking on his weekly radio phone-in show on LBC on Thursday morning, Nick Clegg said he couldn’t get over the “lofty pomposity of the Conservatives”.

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