rodomontade

Example Sentences

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The rodomontade was, Laurel saw, a gag, but the essence of its truth was soon realized.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 18, 2015

What eristic discipline they brought to their sciolistic quibbles, though prone to occasional bursts of rodomontade!

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2015

To engineers and architects, Hart Crane's rhapsody to Brooklyn Bridge was an unscientific, rummy rodomontade.

From Time Magazine Archive

From toppling seas to garish motel interiors, from Huck Finn fishermen to Piranesian renderings of ruined superbowls, all the rodomontade of fallen America is there.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is probably the cause of a fault that never quits her for long, a tendency to make her characters express themselves with a lyrical extravagance which sometimes comes close to the confines of rodomontade.

From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund