Word: blusterous
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Were Jackson as magnanimous as he expects others to be, he would not stoop to the level of "Jews against Jackson" or Commentary's rabid Norman Podhoretz. He would not bluster for two weeks about being "bounded by members of the Jewish community" or complain about press persecution. As one who is the victim of many such off-color remarks, he should understand how and why people are insulted...
Edwardes, whose previous job had been chairman of the Chloride Group, battery manufacturers, unceremoniously closed down plants and in five years chopped BL's work force from 192,000 to 108,000, prompting union leaders to denounce him as a "bloody Hitler." Using a mixture of threats and bluster, Edwardes cut through a thicket of antiquated factory-floor work habits. Meanwhile, he began to invest heavily in programmable robots and computers to help engineers design and manufacture autos. One result: output has risen in BL's Austin Rover group from 5.9 to 14 cars per worker per year...
Does Sir Peter ever have any fun? On the Diaries' evidence, a little. Though Hall is frustrated by Olivier's "Machiavellian love of intrigue," he delights in John Gielgud's fussy modesty, Ralph Richardson's engaging bluster, Albert Finney's eagerness to tackle any role. He enjoys the artistic adventure of rehearsing: "It's really why I do this job." But there is another pleasure: confiding to the diary-and now to any Briton with ?12.95 to spend-his colleagues' amorous intrigues (but rarely his own). In 1975 he reports that Pinter...
...grow. His first six months in office were nearly a disaster. But by 1963 he was far maturer, riper, smarter, still passionate, but seasoned. It is interesting to wonder what his second Inaugural Address would have sounded like. It would almost surely not have reverberated with the grandiloquent bluster that one heard in the first...
Dawkins' personal style is less brassy bluster than civilian silk. At Washington dinners and cocktail parties, he adroitly works a crowd and makes friends readily. Says retired Colonel Junius J. Bleiman, now an assistant dean at the Woodrow Wilson School and one of Dawkins' instructors during his days at West Point: "He is easy to get along with. There is really no pomp to Peter...