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

In his next rodomontade, Evangelist Sunday became emphatic.

From Time Magazine Archive

No doubt the fact is that Vauvenargues saw in the rhetoric of Corneille a parody of his own sentiments, carried to the verge of rodomontade.

From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Gosse, Edmund