and it's much more relevant and less pompous than it used to be.

它与过去相比更亲民，不那么傲慢了。

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Though Eric got most of the laughs, many were generated by Ernie's pompous persona, his "short, fat hairy legs" and his famous thatch of hair, which Eric would tug insisting "you can't see the join".

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The press, currently so pious and pompous about the BBC's mistakes, faces the Leveson report at a very low level of public trust, and unless it learns to deal with its mistakes in a serious and transparent way, that is how it will remain.

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There's also this slightly pompous suggestion that a best-of-seven series is the most honest way of sorting out the best teams.

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