Word: bumptiousness
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Oddly enough, Berry's performance steals the movie because in its bumptious raunchiness and total lack of innocence it portrays the spirit of rock and roll far more compellingly than this whitewashed portrait of Alan Freed ever could...
Movies like this are the price audiences have to pay for liking The Sting. Harry (James Caan) and Walter (Elliott Gould) are bumptious turn-of-the-century vaudevillians with more talent for stealing the customers' wallets than for stealing the show. Offstage they drink out of the finger bowls at posh restaurants, swat each other with their hats a la Laurel and Hardy and cause everything they touch to blow up in their faces, from a bottle of champagne to a vial of nitroglycerin. "They're not oafs," someone says of them. "They would require practice to become...
...marked by lucid and often majestic prose that eliminates archaisms such as "thee" and "thou" unless characters are addressing the Deity. One exception: in the prologue to Job, Satan casually greets God with the familiar "you." Explained Translator Driver: "Satan is the Devil, and is allowed to be bumptious...
...only a few months before she died of Addison's disease at the age of 42, Jane Austen managed to start a new novel but had to break off after 26,000 words. The result was a fragment that would tantalize posterity. Though it jangled with a bumptious satire reminiscent of Austen's youthful burlesques, it seemed to project something both ambitious and new. When it was finally published in 1925 under the title Sanditon-named for the seaside resort town of its setting-E.M. Forster saluted the prescient way the book portrayed nature as "a geographic...
...morons, barely able to read, much less memorize and deliver a lengthy presentation to total strangers. Fred Fadukas, the bloke on my right, looked like something out of Famous Monster Magazine--truely grotesque--with a speech impediment to boot. He did not return after the second class. Betty Sue Bumptious, a 250-pound beauty, was worse. Couldn't even remember her own name: When the supervisor asked her to recite her speech, she hadn't even memorized the first line, and couldn't manage to repeat it when the supervisor read...