bombast

• Their eloquence is all bombast, and what's more, Crossthwaite, though there are some fine fellows among them, nine-tenths are liars—liars in grain, and you know it Crossthwaite turned angrily to me. —  Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet
• Bill Keller himself wrote a letter to the magazine: aside from the "bombast, the recycled anecdotes and the mistakes an elementary fact-checking" Mr. Bowden hadn't written much of a story. —  Home | The New York Observer
• Under the bombast, there is a pounding inner struggle and vulnerability that is affecting.
• "Poor Melville, he had not the least idea what he was doing; I don't read a novel to prepare to be a whaleman … His book is a pathetic cento, the refuse of other men's knowledge, information, done for the most part by him in bombast which is supposed to be Elizabethan blank verse." —  orbis quintus
• Beneath their civic chimes and patriotic bombast, the spirit of republican vigilance writhes in silent agony, forsaken by conservatism itself. —  Extra! Extra!

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