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bombast

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It was an extremely vulnerable moment in a night mostly characterized by bombast.

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Although there was quite a lot of bombast in Ford’s release about this to say it could bring EV charging times down to equivalent to refueling, that bits in the handwave phase at the moment.

Veteran counterterrorism officials say the bombast and sheer volume of chatter on those forums make it a challenge to differentiate between plotting and ranting.

On the one hand, this is as much production value as one would expect for elite athletes, and just as much bombast as directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui afforded their last documentary subject, fashion designer Alexander McQueen.

“Magic” and “Midnight” were both excellent as well, replacing stadium bombast with a newfound sense of simplicity and restraint.

In the midst of all her bombast, I suddenly saw her as the sad, lonely old woman she was.

Bombast was trumping originality and critics were at the end of their ropes with it.

It's over-the-top bombast of girls under sheets and breaking Champagne glasses in slow motion and of course explosions and fire.

A few weeks later the target of his bombast had been expanded to all mental health patients.

The notion was simply that the young idlers about town met together to acquire perfection in the arts of bombast and exaggeration.

To search for thoughts to trail along in a series results in thinnest bombast.

I look upon it all as an empty, insolent piece of bombast; but whatever it is, we must not be taken unawares.

Indeed, the man seems to have been a second Paracelsus, lacking only in the dishonesty and bombast of the latter.

Can it be possible that he believes that proclamation will be acceptable to them—that mixture of cajolery and bombast.

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On this page you'll find 49 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bombast, such as: balderdash, bluster, braggadocio, cotton, exaggeration, and fustian.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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