Word: blusterous
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...bluster preceding Hongkong Hu's "if" could be discounted. What came after was of vast importance. It implied that Canton, which for four years has baited the Chinese Government at Nanking with charges of "treachery to China," charges of "supineness toward Japan," may now be ready to yield to the blandishments of Tokyo and its Shanghai Lily. Such a development, in which monstrous Japanese bribes would play an inevitable role, may well prove for China the turning point in her 20th Century history, a turning toward Asia for Asiatics with Japan at the controls...
...days later suggestions that His Majesty proclaim an amnesty in celebration of his Silver Jubilee this spring were icily rebuffed from the Government Bench by Scottish Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour, not in the least disconcerted by Laborite McGovern's bluster. "Regardless of what other countries might do in similar circumstances," said Sir John, "Britain must adopt her own custom...
...relied on to use their own judgment about the details. His staff-work was not nearly as efficient as his enemy's; he sometimes made poor use of his artillery and cavalry. Many an anecdote bears witness to Lee's quiet good manners, his inability to bluster. Riding over the field of the second battle of Manassas he came upon a marauding Mississippian asked him why he was not with his command. Roundly cursed as "a cowardly Virginia cavalryman," Lee laughed, rode away "subdued." As he watched the critical charge at Chancellorsville he sat calmly
Roared publicity-hungry Prosecutor Phil O. Bluster to the packed jury...
...fear of Hell, but the cracking is done with infinite discretion, and a fine understanding of psychology as she blows in the lower IQ brackets." But the necessities of an extended argument weigh heavily on Paragrapher Mencken's pen; much of the fire has gone out of his bluster. Treatise on Right & Wrong is written tiredly, its Menckenian tricksiness a little dingy from much wear. Carelessness sometimes trips him into such howlers as this: "Nero, as Tacitus tells us, illuminated his gardens at night by clothing them in shirts impregnated with pitch and then setting fire to them...