Word: bombastics
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...same pitiful; yet glorious Bernadette whom Franz Werfel portrayed in his best selling novel. The supporting roles are over-acted; the speakers try to convey in each line all the emotion and conflict of the play with the result that the audience is deluged by a flood of bombast that leaves it reeling and listless...
...still but never small voice of an 18th-Century poet can possibly be heard above all this atomic bombast, may I commend to the attention of your readers and the "bomb committee" the following excerpt from Pope's Essay...
Gone was the battle line which had dominated the Pacific in the first months after Pearl Harbor. The manner of its passing revealed the inherent weakness of Japan's imperial aspirations; Japan's sea lords, with all their bombast, had never dared commit the battle fleet as a unit in a bold strike for strategic mastery...
...recording was stopped. Another (a 1942 speech) was put on. There were the same old phrases, the same bombast, the same guttural sarcasm. There could be little doubt. Delivery, syllabic emphasis and sentence build-up harmonized perfectly. There was only one difference: Hitler's 1945 voice lacked the fire of three years ago, but the fury remained...
...Headlong "Bull" Halsey had forged a powerful weapon in the Solomons, had wielded it with skill, daring, many sulfurous asides (a public-relations officer had finally been assigned to clean up his bullish predictions, screen his football-field bombast). Now once again he would have a chance to forge a weapon, drive it to the heart of the Japanese empire...