Word: bombastic
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Despite the bombast and hostility that have characterized relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the past decade, a remarkably friendly and fruitful exchange has been quietly going on between scientists of the two nations. Glenn Seaborg, the retiring chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, has now revealed how the scientists have not only grown to trust each other, but have also shared detailed information about their countries nuclear capacity-almost to the last atom...
Much of labor's bombast had been for rhetorical effect, as well as to set up a bargaining position. Under Meany's wily guidance, the war of words yielded to a major change in strategy. Although many union leaders, including Meany, originally threatened to fight the 90-day freeze, they soon backed away from that stand. For one thing, a court test of the ban on wage raises negotiated prior to the presidential freeze?the provision that unions dislike most?might well take longer than 90 days. A more embarrassing reason for the retreat was the absence...
...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...