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The media relishes her bombastic style.bombastic = pompous or pretentious talk or writing
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But Uncle Willie was suffering under our father's bombastic pressure, (source)bombastic = pompous or pretentious
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The boys know it, too, they've learned this well, and they'll all wave goodbye with it, stridently, strong-armed, father-son, with the bombast of Americans, not yet knowing that this is the last language they will share. (source)
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-with two extremely bombastic Christian names: Alexander and Bonaparte. (source)
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...nobody ever knew ... if he did not perhaps learn it too from the same book out of which he taught himself the words, the bombastic phrases... (source)bombastic = pompous or pretentious talk or writing
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It's a hint of the old bombast, the old peacock tail, and reassuring.† (source)
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There were insults exchanged that would long fester, bombast and hyperbole in abundance, and moments when eloquence was brought to bear with a dramatic effect remarkable even in the Commons.† (source)
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It was widely felt, in Savannah at least, that Adler's manner was bombastic and peremptory, that he was an autocrat, and that he stepped on toes needlessly.† (source)bombastic = pompous or pretentious talk or writing
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While he was most bombastically agreeing with the coat-man that the weather was warm, he was conscious that he was longing to run childishly with his troubles to the comfort of the fairy child.† (source)
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The letter was full of the usual bombast and fustian I reserved for my periods of anger, but I wanted to appear before the board of education very much.† (source)
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Stay out of the light, the gaudy bombastic lights that belonged more properly to an island carnivale.† (source)
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Such remarks are rescued from bombast by knowledge that all four men who wrote them—two lieutenants, a sergeant, and a private—were killed in action.9 Those soldiers were using the word slavery in the same sense that Americans in 1776 had used it to describe their subordination to Britain.† (source)
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The bombastic trickle continued for over three minutes.† (source)
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No bombast.† (source)
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Pouring out his taunting sarcasm in short, bombastic thunderbolts of gigantic rage, hate and ridicule, day after day, in town after town, he assailed his opponents and their policies with bitter invective.† (source)
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In the poems with long lines, his ambition did not extend beyond the town of Arzamas; he wanted to keep up with the grownups, impress his uncle with mythologism, bombast, faked epicureanism and sophistication, and affected a precocious worldly wisdom.† (source)
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