fanfaronade

• I took the liberty of retagging my old Fisty in order to have a suitable Hewitt Award logo to feed my simultaneous moods of grievance and fanfaronade. —  Velociworld
• But from that hell's broth the crimson spectre of the Commune was to rise, when the smoke of Sedan had drifted clear of a mutilated nation Through the heavy clouds of death which were already girdling Paris, that flabby Cyclops, Gambetta, was to mouth his monstrous platitudes, and brood over the battle-smoke, a nightmare of pomposity and fanfaronade--in a balloon. —  Lorraine A romance
• The people who had gathered round cheered lustily; the trumpets blew a gay fanfaronade, and the squire threw to the wind the earl's colors It was no mere pleasure trip on which they were starting, for all knew that, of the preceding Crusades, not one in ten of those who had gone so gladly forth had ever returned It must not be supposed that the whole of those present were animated by any strong religious feeling. —  The Boy Knight
• And after this fanfaronade, lo! —  Without Prejudice
• Temple, who was sometimes in consultation with him, and was always amused by his quasi-fanfaronade, assured me that Herriot was actually scheming. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith

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