Voorbeelden van bombastic

• There seemed to be no room in the post-war world for bombastic statements about national glory.

• Some deemed the scale of the museum 'bombastic' and completely inappropriate for the changed political situation.

• Each new group of arrivals, or conquerors, to use their more militaristic and bombastic term, imposed its culture and its ways on the autochthonous commoners.

• His vocal style is usually loud and high, defiant and bombastic.

• That acting style has to be large, imperious, and histrionic - which in no way means hollow, bombastic, or artificial.

• The music of these instruments was the counterpart to the most bombastic forms of orchestral music.

• It is a noisy, bombastic fake.

• It is a monument of bombastic proportions.

• Petruchio performs all the business of the vice: the bombastic entrance, playful audience address, the loud mockthreats, and outlandish gear.

• Pencil too, he notes, leads to drawings that, with their many revisions, provide a better narrative of the evolution of a design than more bombastic pen drawings.

• We have our own views on whether those bombastic promises have been fulfilled.

• What is needed at the moment is not the making of bombastic gestures such as the extending of sanctions which could not be effectively implemented.

• It is a terrible thing once again to hear these bombastic ravings of a dictator coming over the radio.

• We have to put over to the public that scientists are not cocksure or bombastic and do not pretend to know everything.

• One thing that must be rubbed in tonight is that all that bombastic pretence has collapsed in the face of the realities of the situation.