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

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 celebrates the chicanery of the human spirit, the love of raillery and rodomontade.

From Time Magazine Archive

In general, the French captains have more rodomontade and solemnity, with less buffoonery, than their Italian prototypes.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John