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

In his next rodomontade, Evangelist Sunday became emphatic.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is merely that such arguments are unnecessary, that anyone is capable, with less rodomontade, of precisely the deductions which he achieves.

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