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

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

Just as a firing squad is about to punctuate Gerard's career of rodomontade, Bonaparte steps before the muskets and saves his brigadier.

From Time Magazine Archive

Le vent de la mer Souffle dans sa trompe.’— to the Romance Mauresque, to the barbaric fury of les Reîtres, to the magnificent rodomontade of the Romancero du Cid. 

From Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation by Henley, William Ernest