Word: blusterer
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...wards." Besides, said Sir Geoffrey, too many surgeons wax theatrical before a student audience, "give tongue only to reprimands or agonized cries about the incompetence of their assistants . . . This is often good entertainment, [but it is] a bad example to their juniors who may come to believe that bluster and theatrical imbecilities are the sign of a good surgeon...
Quite overcome, Brazil's Joao Carlos Muniz cried that he foresaw a possible "turning point in history." Andrei Vishinsky, who had arrived in October accusing the U.S. of "bluster and blackmail," now announced that "the rays of sunshine are visible through the clouds." Everybody was at least grateful for Vishinsky's present politeness, however temporary...
Fortunately, much of the movie needs no supplementary conversation. The pantomime of Jean-Louis Barrault is eloquent; the bluster, cunning, and charm of Pierre Brassuer is largely expression of hands, mouth, eyes and the intonations of voice; and the earthy beauty of Arletty defies description. It is Arletty, and my changing impressions of her throughout the movie, that I remember most vividly. For the first time in my experience, an actress who seemed plain at the beginning became more and more beautiful as the story wove its way to an ending, until I found myself not consciously seeing her physically...
...heard in a political campaign: "We have become guardians of a civilization built in pain, in anguish and in heroic hope ... If we creak, the world will groan. If we slip, the world will fall. But if we use our right of initiative and of decision without bombast or bluster, if we use it with clear heads and steady nerves, we shall rise in strength and grow in majesty and the world will rise and grow with...
...days later Vishinsky got to his feet and, in a monotone, for 75 minutes accused the U.S. of "bluster, blackmail and pressure" in Korea, retold the "germ warfare" tale, and charged that U.S. "billionaires" are bent on more & more bloodshed to swell their billions. Midway through, Acheson removed his earphones for a few minutes, and some delegates began leaving...