Use "pompousness" in a sentence

1. Mariana slid from them as if of a toboggan, filled with enthusiasm by the pompousness of what she was observing

2. After a gentle but encouraging conversation with his convincing wife who held his shoulders tightly, the colour had returned to Lord Ashburn’s face, giving him back his normal appearance of pompousness that still lacked his trademark joviality, and his shaking had noticeably subsided though he still trembled every time he looked towards the chandelier or the French door over which the drapes had been drawn

3. Have I mentioned that I wasn't very fond of Christian? He exuded pompousness, and he never seemed to be doing much of anything, save for staring at a computer screen

4. Probably just a bunch of pompousness and a big show for the nobility, that will cost more money than the castle he once wanted

5. And in the superintendent's private room the privileged passenger by the Ceres, or Juno, or Pallas, stunned and as it were annihilated mentally by a sudden surfeit of sights, sounds, names, facts, and complicated information imperfectly apprehended, would listen like a tired child to a fairy tale; would hear a voice, familiar and surprising in its pompousness, tell him, as if from another world, how there was "in this very harbour" an international naval demonstration, which put an end to the Costaguana-Sulaco War