0 language that is intentionally difficult, usually to make something sound more important than it is
He was a quiet, mild-minded man, devoid of bombast, neither cynical nor meddlesome, and was well liked by all.
His tragedies, which, with much bombast and frequent untrained flights of imagination, have occasional fire and tenderness, are generally based on classical subjects.
The style of the great eulogy, born of the occasion and the speaker, becomes only exaggerated bombast and nonsense from the lips of a student.
This introduction is one of the most extraordinary pieces of bombast, mixed metaphors, loose syntax, and incoherent expressions that Latin literature possesses.
Yet there was a certain sincerity of feeling underneath all the bombast and platitudes, and this saved the book.
Here, his balanced tone is a welcome contrast to the bombast of many plan supporters and opponents.
We do at least need an awareness of how the royal epistle had its own rhetorical world in which bombast and boast had a special diplomatic function.
That is the real lesson of history, conflicting directly with the bombast of nationalism.
