Word: blusterous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu, North Viet Nam Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap defiantly declared over Hanoi radio: "We are now defeating and definitely will defeat the Nixon war-defeat completely all the adventurous and cruel escalations of the United States imperialists." But after the initial bluster, Hanoi's Le Due Tho called again for more talks in Paris...
...time . . . for a little blast of sauce! That, at least, is the essence of Buffalo Bob's new radio pitch. On the old Howdy Doody show, the lovable Bob, when not embroiled in the Byzantine struggles for pre-eminence in Doodyville, waged by Howdy and the nefarious, Mr. Bluster, used to sell Welch's grape juice to the kiddies. Now that his former audience is well of age, Bob's spiel has fermented; he is selling Riunite wine...
After the humiliation of the Six-Day War of 1967, Nasser mixed bluster and bullets in his efforts to regain Sinai and the Gaza Strip from Israel. He succeeded only in accumulating 20,000 casualties in his fruitless "war of attrition," and was more than glad to negotiate a ceasefire. Sadat, with a calm and moderate approach and the subtlety of a bazaar merchant, has managed in four months to put Israel on the diplomatic defensive. First, in a major shift in Arab policy, he announced his willingness to recognize Israel's right to exist in return for the restoration...
...never see another sunset!' Then, after ten or 15 minutes, they walk away and nobody gets hurt. This the Israelis don't realize." Rogers is hardly likely even to try to convince the Israelis of such a benign view of Arab bluster. Nonetheless, many Arabs last week welcomed Rogers' impending visit. Beirut's Al Anwar daily praised him as "one of the few Americans who have not succumbed to Zionist myopia...
...perhaps radicals don't admit any humanist absolutes. Still, obstruction and violence are extreme forms of blustering. Cicero, you recall, advised speakers to bluster when they had no case and to speak dispassionately when the facts were with them. Thus it is a great political disappointment as well, that though the facts are with us, many radicals have really demonstrated that they have no faith in their own cause...