help out, pomposity, concomitant, hypocrisy. “I had feared that this memorial would be the hodgepodge of cliché and Soviet-style pomposity that it is.”

“Nowhere does it honor the great war’s transformational role in our history,” Mr. Fisher added, citing the war’s unifying effect on a diverse nation. “I had feared that this memorial would be the hodgepodge of cliché and Soviet-style pomposity that it is.”

In the leader of a religious organisation whose core beliefs are not open to negotiations, style matters a lot. People can sense hypocrisy and pomposity, and they can also sense the opposite.




Another prose writer whose position is strong is Alexei Tolstoi. He is undoubtedly a distinguished writer and a fine stylist, but he writes mostly about a fairly remote past and has not identified himself with the war. He is now somewhat disliked by a few younger writers for his pomposity and his airs; he is something of an eccentric — writes standing up, for instance, with his manuscript on an inclined chest-high table, like a speaker's rostrum.

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pomposity



IN BRIEF: The quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius, and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition. — Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)



concomitant

(kən-kŏm'ĭ-tənt)
adj.
Occurring or existing concurrently; attendant. See synonyms at contemporary.

n.
One that occurs or exists concurrently with another.

[Late Latin concomitāns, concomitant-, present participle of concomitārī, to accompany : Latin com-, com- + Latin comitārī, to accompany (from comes, comit-, companion).]

concomitantly con·com'i·tant·ly adv.

help out
Give additional assistance, as in I offered to help out with the holiday rush at the store. [Early 1600s]