Word: bombastically
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...believe that the HYRC is going to be an organization of much loud talk and little action," Frederic D. Houghteling '50, president of the Liberal Union, has said, "and we particularly welcome it since we feel that the reactionary bombast which forms its public statements will double the membership...
Last Tuesday, one of the more insidious news items of recent times slipped into the press and lay quietly in small print amid the flurry and bombast of election returns. The gist was this; State Attorney Clarence a. Barnes had filed a bill which would prevent all Massachusetts schools, private or public, from employing as teachers Communists and "others who advocate the overthrow of government by force or violence...
...great word war over "Who's a warmonger?" ended this week at Lake Success. The month's debate was a sea of platitude lashed by the winds of bombast and invective. It resulted in a resolution condemning talk that might disrupt the peace. Everybody could agree to that. In fact, everybody did; the vote...
...them, acting, indeed, with more skill than anyone else in the cast if also with more mugging and audience-facing. But his comedy was of an almost slapstick variety at times, never fulfilling its tragic implications for his family and his country, his style ranging as far as bombast toward the middle of the last act and mawkishness toward the close...
Wylie thinks he has the answer for juvenile delinquency, the high divorce rate, national psychoses such as Naziism and "iron curtains." He presents his answers, as usual, in ups & downs of personal sharpness and pseudo-scientific bombast, glib epigrams and gassy notions, often pungent and more often appallingly slipshod prose. At his best, Iconoclast Wylie pinpricks as sharply as H. L. Mencken ; at his worst, he is as full of unenlightening heat as Westbrook Pegler...