Word: bumptiousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such tasteless wordage about the President-unless the quotation is attributed to Nixon, say, or to Billy Graham or Governor Wallace, in which case it would be legitimate. But not an unnamed Coloradan. It's like saying, with considerable truth, that a Californian growled: "TIME editors are arrogant, bumptious, and not early so sophisticated or omniscient as hey like to think"-the growler being...
...actors work assiduously trying to put new bounce into a comedy written more than half a century ago by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallières. Gina Lollobrigida, looking as delicately outraged as a piece of fine cracked china, plays the neglected bourgeois wife of bumptious Robert Morley. In revenge, she undertakes a night on the town with Neighbor Alec Guinness. The sly old seducer lures her to a disreputable inn where-true to formula-his promised evening of bliss ends up as a harmless orgy of slammed doors and mistaken identity, climaxed by a chase involving a fat lady...
...Partly it was because his physical presence was so overwhelming. He was a strutting cockatoo of a man, resplendently tailored, grey hair swept up into a crest, wit as sharp as a honed spur, manner as crude as a clod. Fascinated by the combination of the baroque and the bumptious of the man, Rebecca West once wondered if it would not be better to judge Bennett as a character rather than an author. "He could not be compared properly with Fielding, or Dickens, or Balzac," she said, "but he could be compared with Squire Western, or Mr. Micawber, or Lucien...
...often, across the U.S., television's local news coverage veers from dull to deplorable. Bumptious reporters shove microphones into faces and ask inane questions, and cameras are trained interminably on fires and auto accidents. Few are the electronic journalists who make the most of their medium's exciting possibilities. Those that do, though, point the way not only for their local colleagues but also for their big-time rivals on the networks...
...Smith and Robert Stephens, whose voices are whirling kaleidoscopes. That young theatrical iconoclast, Franco Zeffirelli (creator of a successful beatnik Hamlet), directed this National Theater of Britain production, which one critic called as lurid and animated as a Superman comic. The performance on the recording is robust but never bumptious...