blusterer

• “Trump may be a cartoon blusterer, Sarah Palin a sitcom nosy 'n' sassy-neighbor-next-door, Mitt a replicant who thinks he's a real human, Ron Paul the kindly/crackpot dad from a YA series, and Huckabee the host of a Sunday morning Bible story show for kids of all ages!”

  The Huffington Post: Ellis Weiner: Everything Newt Is Old Again

• “The synonyms were spot-on: big mouth, blusterer, boaster, braggart, line-shooter, loudmouth, and — my personal favorite — vaunter.”

  Review: Wordnik’s Thesaurus « Motivated Grammar

• “The script, by EV Crowe, was packed tight with goodies for those listening carefully a great joke about lutes comes and goes in a beat, and I found Paul Woodson captivating as Charlie, a charmer and a tireless blusterer who betrays a growing panic, even as he repeats the mantra "Yes, me, now" to hearten himself for revolt.”

  The Guardian: Edinburgh fringe theatre roundup

• “Everything about this modern family should be familiar enough, including the father and official family head, Zeek (Craig T. Nelson of "Coach"), a bull-in-a-china-shop blusterer with a heart of gold.”

  The Wall Street Journal: You Can Go Home Again

• “He was not said to be either a fool or a blusterer, but why go to Blackbough otherwise?”

  Simon & Schuster: THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD

• “Do not turn your back on your people and give them only this arrogant blusterer to guide them.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Shattering

• “Any time one finds oneself in the unaccustomed position of thinking that the old blusterer has a point, you know it's time to have another look at the evidence ...”

  Lockerbie: What Would Cameron Have Done Differently?

• “The thing that really irks me though is the habit of having characters ramble endlessly one scene and not say a word the next, depending on if they're supposed to be the blusterer or the listener.”

  Glengarry Glen Ross

• “The old bully blusterer would upbraid newspapers he thought had misrepresented him, and did so colorfully.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Fighting Word That's Lost Its Punch

• “Absent that, Chavez remains a blusterer best left to the other governments of the region to contain.”

  Newsweek: Holding Pattern

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