Voorbeelden van bombast

• 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.

• I detect no sense of jingoism or bombast.

• Bluster and bombast have characterised his handling of the situation since the spring.

• He put in his tuppence worth of bombast, but he was rather off target.

• I do not believe that that speech was mere idle bombast.

• It was characteristically witty and full of bombast.

• Bombast and pompous rhetoric will not get us through this problem.

• Further, they have matched the hour, have been carried out efficiently, calmly and without bombast and with much patience and understanding.

• All the bombast, all the easy assurance of victory, all the comforting self-complacency, had gone.

• Pride and bombast are still detected and despised for what they reveal in the person.

• Apart from the opening and closing, which were full of his hectoring and bombast, it was an excellent speech.

• He raises posturing, wriggling, dodging and whingeing to the status of high parliamentary art and one has to admire his cheerful cynicism and aggressive bombast.

• Instead, we see them moving amid more noise and clamour and with more bombast.