What an academic swell of bombastic cadences, strung together to enforce his tirades!
The deputations of the popular clubs come for fourteen months to the bar of the house and recite their common-place or bombastic tirades, and the Convention is forced to applaud them.
But it is trick-rhetoric of the most brilliant kind without degenerating into bombastic absurdity.
The simple and natural was at a discount: brilliance of point, bombastic description, gorgeous colour were preferred to quiet power.
It loses comparatively little by the omission of the Aegeus episode, but suffers terribly by the insertion of a bombastic description of Medea's incantations.
Dulcam non farimas, succor amarum reno," he said, with the most ostentatious air and bombastic confidence.
From the first moment of my entrance into your house until the last second of his departure he has talked about nothing except himself in the mostbombastic way.
The temple itself is similarly surrounded with various apartments, all, as their bombastic inscriptions announce, devoted to the honour and advancement of knowledge.
They are to be found in the difference between the bombastic half-knowledge of a school teacher and the discreet and complete knowledge of a man of culture.
In spite of its florid andbombastic style, it is of considerable value as a record (on the whole impartial) of events of which he was either an eye-witness or had heard at first hand.
AEthelweard gave himself the bombastic title ``Patricius Consul Quaestor Ethelwerdus,'' and unfortunately this title is only too characteristic of the man.
His minor poems are utterly worthless, out Cowleying Cowley in frigid and fantastic conceits; and his varied addresses to the king and queen are as bombastic and stupid and artificial as anything which bedizened the reigns of Charles II.
De Tocqueville says that democratic journalism has a strong tendency to be virulent in spirit and bombastic in style.
On the other hand, he was full ofbombastic talk about principles which he called great.
Gianbattista glanced at his pale face, and inwardly wondered at the strange mixture of artistic genius, of bombastic rhetoric and relentless hatred, all combined in the strange man whom destiny had given him for a master.
Thorpe's dedication was couched in the bombastic language which was habitual to him.
The dramatist Dekker was author of a somewhat bombastic account of the elaborate ceremonial, which rapidly ran through three editions.
They chiefly rely on Florio's bombastic prefaces to his Worlde of Wordes and his translation of Montaigne's Essays (1603).
Filled with the bombastic daring and sublime confidence of the patriot, he cried: "Give me the chance; give but the chance!
Again Cramoisin returned, strutting with bombastic gestures, crying to the room: "I am the friend of Fouquier.
Ercles' vein:' a rousing, somewhat bombastic manner of public speaking or writing.
Though he is always aiming at the sublime, he scarcely ever oversteps it, or falls into the bombastic or ridiculous.
Like his forerunner, he divided his time between bombasticlyrics and epigrams of very considerable merit.
It is fair to add that, though he is almost always aiming at the sublime, he scarcely ever oversteps it, or falls into the bombastic and the ridiculous.
The Granelleschi, in their zeal for sound literature, were justly enraged against the ranting, arrogant, bombastic Chiari.
We sat for an hour and a half through tiresome, bombasticexchanges of international greetings.
After the testimony was in the counsel for the defense made an eloquent, if rather bombastic plea.
My bombastic friend and the Judge had their hats off, waving them, and the Colonel saluted with such rigid propriety, it seems a pity that he was facing the wrong way.
The influence of the symbolists and the turbulent experimenting of the Nicaraguan broke down the bombastic romantic style current in Spain, as it was broken down everywhere else in the middle nineteenth century.
