Word: bombastically
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...problem with bombast is that it comes at a cost. The struggle against violent Islamic extremism is not a show trial. It's a long fight that requires discipline. We must balance fear with reason and weigh probability, not just possibility...
...found a gigantic new market in videos and, 15 years later, in DVDs; digital sales and rentals now account for more than half of the industry's income. But like any lobbyist who sees change as a threat to be forestalled by protective legislation, bombs to be fought with bombast, Valenti often couldn't see past his and his employers' fears. In 1974 he warned that the infant cable industry would become "a huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because...
...demands excess and excrescence?but it is also overwritten, with too much narration that spells out what has already been so eloquently shown. As a director, Stone does not yet have the craft to match or mediate his passion. His film works in spurts: a scene that sputters with bombast will be followed by some wrenching fire storm of death in combat. But nowadays, when directors aim for the predictably cute or gross, these spurts are tonic. They prove that someone out there, working from the mind and gut, is willing to put both aggressively onscreen. So Platoon is different...
...eclectic second half, the results are fascinating. “Bury Me A G” has Jeezy rapping about getting shot over a Kanye-inspired track provided by J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League. It’s “Through The Wire” with even more bombast and even less verisimillitude (the unpunctured Jeezy’s no 50 Cent...
...doomed to lose, and the dark, satanic sky that lights all roads at midnight.But that opening line sticks with you. Something’s different.For one thing, this is the most instrumentally fleshed-out and gorgeous album Oldham has created.Recorded in Reykjavik, Iceland all the sounds, from the desperate bombast of “The Seedling” to the barely-whispered finger-picking of “Wai” have an icy purity befitting the Emily Dickinson poem—“After great pain a formal feeling comes”—from which...