Word: bombasting
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...generation now aging dismissed this as bombast. A generation now living knows it so familiarly as sober truth that the excitement and suspense posed by Washington is lost. This week, as another President sends his annual address to a Congress of the U.S., will his words carry this sense of American responsibility for freedom attained through regard for "the eternal rules of order...
Publicly, McCarthy did not regret the loss of his Shamrock. Said he: "You can always build other hotels." It was not all bombast; actually, the sum that he received was what he thought he needed to put over his newest project and perhaps make another fortune...
Fighting Marshal. Beneath all the bombast the marshals had a message for the Soviet people. In its most pointed form it was delivered by egg-bald Marshal Ivan Konev, a figure of growing significance in the shifting Soviet scene. Pravda last week gave special prominence to an article by him. Konev was a Bolshevik before he was a soldier, but he is a fighting marshal who has earned his decorations the hard way and has the respect of the Russian people...
...thought the most glaring fault was the lack of any dynamic of tonal norm whereby the long forte passages could be saved from conveying an impression of bombast and anti-climax. On the other hand the faith in Schubert's lyricism, which undoubtedly underlay the performance, was not pushed so far as to infuse each phrase, and as a result even ardent Schubert lovers would find it hard to apply to this performance Schumann's epithet of "heavenly length...
From Peking and Moscow one day last week, the Communist radio trumpeted the news of "the seven accords" between the old and the new giants of Communism. The accords were clothed in clichés: "The negotiations took place in an atmosphere of sincere friendship." In bombast: "The continued occupation by the U.S. of [Formosa] ... is incompatible with peace in the Far East." In sweet talk: "The Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic will continue to build their relations with . . . other countries on the basis of a strict observance of ... territorial integrity...