Definitionn. pompous or pretentious talk or writing
Last update: August 28, 2015
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He bombasted his audience. [verb]
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With characteristic bombast he declares that money has no charms. [Please select]
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Only the after-event could prove whether this verbal display of fireworks was only bombast. [noun]
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Heinrich Dorn, who recognized his talent amid all the bombast, conducted this piece at a concert. [noun]
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The stirring melody of the Marseillaise and its ingenious adaptation to the words serve to disguise the alternate poverty and bombast of the words themselves. [noun]
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His father, the natural son of a grandmaster of the Teutonic order, was Wilhelm Bombast von Hohenheim, who had a hard struggle to make a subsistence as a physician. [noun]
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Through the welter of bombast, excitement and emotion we had grounded on reality. [Please select]
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Zij begon sensatie-verhalen te schrijven--want in die duistere tijden las zelfs het volmaakte Amerika bombast. [Please select]
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In comparing the Irish tales with the saga, there will be felt deep divergencies in matter, style and taste, the richness of one contrasting with the chastened simplicity of the other; the one's half-comic, half-earnest bombast is wholly unlike the other's grim humour; the marvellous, so unearthly in the one, is almost credible in the other; but in both are the keen grasp of character, the biting phrase, the love of action and the delight in blood which almost assumes the garb of a religious passion. [Please select]
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His letters, though suffering like those of some other distinguished authors from being translated, are full of touches of fiery eloquence, mixed with bombast and the wildest and most monstrously inflated self-pretension. [Please select]
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You must not take the vaporings and bombast of the Paris Bourgeois or the ranting of Blanqui and the Belleville roughs as the voice of France. [Please select]
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