Word: bombastes
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...bombast from the MARCH OF TIME. This war is not a Yale-Princeton football game...
...Communiques were not, however, like any previous High Command announcement. They came from Adolf Hitler's headquarters at the front and were obviously written by his fine, un-Italian hand. They were not only half political but full of bombast and they tried to demonstrate that the Russians had planned to pour their troops and their Bolshevism into Germany: "It is likely that, at the last minute, Middle Europe was spared an invasion, the consequences of which cannot be conceived. The German people truly are duty bound to give deepest thanks to its brave soldiers." German figures of losses...
...Schnabel, or it may sound wild and furious as it does played by Horowitz. But which style is better must remain largely a matter of individual taste. The old Schnabel recording is a miracle in its way--quiet, restrained, noble--yet there is no denying that the music has bombast in it, and Horowitz, who has hardly been noted as an apostle of restraint, is merely running true to form when he exploits the bombast. Whether this performance will not begin to irritate after the fifth or sixth playing is hard to predict, but I incline to think it will...
Graziani, who made his fierce reputation by fighting defenseless natives in Africa, was in a fair way to lose his lustre in the Libyan sands. To excuse himself, he last week issued a report to II Duce which was, to military historians, an amazing mixture of accusation, frankness and bombast...
...Band Around Today, for which he subsequently apologized. Now that's all fine, as one seldom sees such downright honesty in a critic. However, it seems to me that George would save himself a lot of word-eating if he'd only refrain from his occasional excursions into adolescent bombast...