Word: bombast
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...Wolf Shenk observed that Lincoln's words have been used to support all kinds of causes. That's because Lincoln was a true leader who used his humor to disarm his adversaries and his common sense and knowledge of humanity to gradually ease them into a new position without bombast and stonewalling. Unfortunately, today we seem to be lacking political leaders with those abilities. If our elected representatives studied Lincoln a little more or studied as he did, things just might improve...
...release of George Lucas' space opera marks the point at which American film shook off any aesthetic aspirations and embraced explosions. Depending on what kind of movies you like--the Bonnie and Clyde-- Midnight Cowboy artiness that preceded Lucas' blockbuster-to-change-all-blockbusters or the Top Gun--Matrix bombast that followed--Star Wars was either the end or the beginning...
...escapees. Some had returned voluntarily, a few of them on the first day in time for their evening meal. Also in custody, though elsewhere in the city, were the prison superintendent and the two senior officers, who were charged with allowing the great escape. FRANCE Bomb Blast and Bombast...
...alleged U.S. violations of human rights as the Move bombing in Philadelphia. Sample fulmination: according to Pravda, "the United States is going through a 'prison boom.' Camps for dissidents are hastily being built there." The Soviets may even try to counter American allegations of human rights abuse with propagandistic bombast about the purported torture of fickle Soviet Defector Vitaly Yurchenko...
When a theater production bills itself as an epic, it's usually nothing more than a publicist's bombast. Yet when Robert Wilson's I La Galigo premieres in Singapore on March 12, it will be literally true: the four-hour spectacle of song and dance, mantra and martial arts is based upon a classic of Indonesian literature, an epic poem almost unknown outside the archipelago until now. The poem, also called I La Galigo, survives in thousands of fragmentary manuscripts and was written in an archaic Indonesian language that maybe no more than 50 people today are able...