bombastic

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  • Harlan's short commentary is challenging, bombastic, and always entertaining forcing the viewer to think critically about the field of science fiction. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 06 - June 1994
  • DJ Toomp's guitars on "House of Pain" are drably bombastic, and Cool & Dre's militant synth-and-piano backdrop on "My Life" is equally mundane, especially in comparison to the duo's best work ( "New York," "Holla At Me"). —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • The beginning of bruno and violas are great for a beginning of this bombastic, the first part of the song has a great instrumental part. —  Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website
  • If you like your vocals bombastic, and you like your Clay making sexyface to the cameras, then this is the video for you! —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Stalinism and stalinists are funny, when they are, because they used big, chunky graphics combined with bombastic, awkward text to get their message across, especially when they're translated into fairly deadpan English. —  MetaFilter Projects
 

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