Word: bombast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eyes of an intelligent, high-minded and broad minded public, and never considering who or what will be helped or harmed by the publication of the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The ideal journal's statements of fact will never be colored by prejudice, passion, bombast or humor (so called,) but will be rigorously exact, and will be expressed in simple, clear, compact and agreeable English. Its comments on current events will be animated by a steady purpose to say the right thing in the right way at the right moment, and will be characterized...
...publish with pleasure the reply of the Spirit of the Times to our editorial of April 17th. We do so with greater pleasure, because that paper has put itself still further in the wrong by its cheap bombast and ridiculous patronage. In the first place we did not claim to be criticising the editorial columns of the Spirit, as reference to our columns of April 17th will show. In the second place, the article which we did criticise was not under the head of correspondence, nor did it have the name of a correspondent attached to it. There was simply...
...tongued volubility to comprehend and define this sky scraping aestheticism, this water-logged, wet chicken, Dircaean-swan-ism; this mental somnambulism, that dares everything and is conscious of nothing; this yellow sunflower, frilled shirt, plastered hairism! Shade of John Gilpin! Is this dilute extract of rose water and weak bombast, this white livered sentimentality, the consummation of our boasted modern culture? We are humbled in sack-cloth and ashes. We only hope that in edging his way into fame, Mr. Wilde will not dislodge from their niche of honor any of the old worthies we have been accustomed to venerate...