Word: bombastes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where he maniacally stalks his old love Catherine. A man with a lot less charm or interest than the author imagines, Pomeroy is given to such gestures as nailing his hand to Catherine's front door with a gun butt. He is also inclined to flights of lyrical bombast: "They were pines that dared to suggest that islands are misery where brave horsemen run off the earth and topple into the unknown...
Last week Rhodes told 70 Republicans at a $25-a-plate luncheon in rural Carroll County that employment is the key campaign issue. With typical bombast, he attacked bureaucrats who "do not-understand the courageous mother who has to line her children up and say, 'There's no Christmas this year because your father doesn't have a job.' " Rhodes claims credit for attracting 481,000 new jobs to Ohio and cutting welfare rolls by 40,000 since...
...into the congested, baroque rhetoric of shape which would later be refined as the allover skeins and webs of his drip paintings. Still and Rothko regarded their art as mediumistic: it was, Still declared, a way of "being with in a revelation," and this kind of priestly bombast was a regular feature of abstract expressionist utterances. Painting accumulated resonance by appealing to myth...
Political bombast can be marvelous theater. It helps the ratings. Cutting up rascals is a joy because there are so many of them around. A lot of what Carter said happens to be true. And just about everybody loves to see somebody else get a well-deserved whack. Of course, Carter's new presidential tack has also produced some lively criticism, particularly from those who are disappointed...
...ended a 2,612-mile feminine relay that began last September in Seneca Falls, N.Y., where a doughty band of suffragettes had held the first national women's conference in 1848. And so began-with hoopla, bombast, some unsisterly rancor and, overall, deadly serious intentions-the largest political conference of women ever assembled in the country. The nearly 2,000 delegates and more than 12,000 observers who later jammed Sam Houston Coliseum for the three-day National Women's Conference provided some answers to Freud's vexing question: What does a woman want...