Word: bombastes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to quarrel with such compassion. The trouble with the Roarers is that their sentiments too frequently lapse into mere bombast. Bad verse in a good cause is still bad verse...
...original and cut versions-are romantic, and constitute today's collective, updated white man's burden, which is probably why the film is presented as a flashback told by nobody in particular. The film supports Lawrence, and does not drown his military or political achievements for the sake of bombast. But there is still a credibility gap-without cutting a broader swath of history and defining its themes more clearly in that context, we cannot accept them. Lean's claim that he only worked to advance the story rather than concentrate on its atmosphere merely attests to the story...
...merely to tease the possibilities of all three, just enough to provide a context for his real interest which is to create a parable of the decay of capitalist consciousness. The hallucinating mind of Antonio comes to represent a political system deprived of coherence, left only to a bombast of images of its growth, crimes, guilts and fears. The plot is a contrivance to make feasible the various fantasies and surreal dramas that provide the core of Saura's parable, far more important than the narrative surface...
...Mailer's new journalistic endeavors inspires a touch of cynicism, for his style often works like an elastic bag into which he can pour anything from political conventions to traffic congestion and come up with instant apocalyptic meditations. His early essays in the middle fifties were pure mental bombast; the weight of reflection far exceeded the weight of its object so that it hardly mattered what he was talking about. Starting with the '64 Republican Convention and culminating with Armies of the Night. he had found the kind of material to which his species of unconventional thinking and his concepts...
Neil MacNeil observed Dirksen's career for 19 years-the last twelve as chief congressional correspondent for TIME. He is best when narrating the intricate workings of Congress, fondly chronicling the stratagems of cloture and bombast. His portrait is judicious and frequently admiring. Only occasionally, though, does he step back and render judgment: "Using a rhetorical ready-mix of melancholy and country humor, Dirksen mouthed the platitudes of an earlier America as though they were beatitudes, and he sensed himself as the appointed guardian of those values...