Word: bombasting
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...Herr Hitler had spoken as he did in the sanctum sanctorum of German justice at Leipzig, into what inflammatory bombast might he not burst when the new Reichstag convenes on Oct. 16 next? Herren Hindenburg and Briining know as well as anyone else that the German Republic was actually proclaimed "not in written but in spoken words" from a window of the Reichstag by one Philipp Scheidemann, Socialist deputy who had neither "right" to do so nor "reason" to expect success (except the shouts of the mob). What has happened once can happen again...
Henri Cochet plays tennis as though the game were an argument couched in a difficult idiom which he alone had mastered. His placements have the brilliance, the finality of condescending epigrams. With such epigrams he might perhaps have punctured the crude bombast of Wilmer Allison's speedy serve last week, had he not flown over to Paris for Rene Lacoste's wedding to the French golf champion, Mile Simone Thion de la Chaume. When he returned to the centre court at Wimbledon, Cochet argued like a tired attorney. He won the first two games, but after that...
...demanded the actors even after they had been given a chance to go home. The chief cause for this exuberance seemed to be in the acting of Mr. Hampden himself, although the remainder of the cast came in for their share of popular favor. The play itself with its bombast and measured movement could not have stood alone on its own merits, but the performers seemed to cover up this defect to the entire satisfaction of the listeners...
Shipstead−"His paucity of achievement, his colossal bombast, his lack of aggressiveness, his ardent playing of the political and social game, are a complete summary of the worth and role of the entire Progressive group, with exception of Norris...
...course, a great many people who feel that Actor Hampden has been Dean for a number of years. And there are plenty of other people?O'Neill addicts and the like?who believe that any man who can take Shakespeare seriously must be full of stuff and bombast. Whatever the case, Actor Hampden would be the last to worry about it one way or another, and last week found him proceeding comfortably into the third month of his second triumphal revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, with his own company, under his own direction, in his own theatre...