Word: windbag
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...capture the relationship between Ben and the Baxter, the restaurant owner, by making their dialogue strained, which led to deliberate pauses of up to 40 seconds between lines. Yes, I did time it. I had nothing better to do. Moreover, the restaurant guy was supposed to be a windbag, and Dorf went at the job too eagerly. His monologues were written to be really, really boring. Dreadfully boring. Without Morgan's skill in the part, I might well have started screaming in pain. As was, I discovered that you can rearrange the letters in "Jon Dorf" to spell "no fjord...
...ABBREVIATION cynic, not one of those trendy, commentary-on-American-life-seeking, McLaughlin Group-windbag-aspirant media types. But while I thought I'd have wonderful new insight on Americans' diminishing powers of concentration, I've sat here all day, distractedly typing sentence fragments, searching for a new take on the topic...
...Refiner's Fire, he has seemed on the point of accomplishing marvels. He has also seemed -- notably in Winter's Tale, an overblown fantasy starring an annoying magical horse -- to be a posturer incapable of modulating eloquence or intensity, a too appreciative taster of his own words, a gifted windbag...
Lightweight, demagogue, buffoon, windbag. At best naive, at worst dangerous. Those were among the put-downs of the newly elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic that came sluicing anonymously out of the U.S. Government on the eve of last week's summit. The name-calling stemmed in part from memories of Boris Yeltsin's visit to Washington in September...
...walk.' Laage and a friend made each other wear signs at all times for a week except when sleeping or in the shower, in the interest of truth and suffering. Laage's read "I am a pimply-faced boy," while his friend's read "I am a windbag at both ends...