bombastic

How To Use bombastic In A Sentence

• I had not changed my intellectual belief as to my correspondent's behavior, but the impropriety of complicating an awkward business by placing myself in the wrong to the extent of losing my temper was so obvious that I blushed in recalling the bombastic periods of the torn composition. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
• Many stewards were taken aback at the prospect of such a drawn-out dispute and the union appears less bombastic this time around. Times, Sunday Times
• Either way, they made this noble symphony sound bombastic and sometimes comical. Times, Sunday Times
• The problem most of the reviews expose is Erikson's verbosity and a very slow and meandering buildup with many subplots leading nowhere, but the reader's patience is ultimatelly paid of by another bombastic ending (yup, a convergence). Archive 2008-07-01
• Johnson's expression is manly, vigorous, grandiloquent and bombastic.
• Other pieces might show the company's mettle in less bombastic fare. Times, Sunday Times
• Many stewards were taken aback at the prospect of such a drawn-out dispute and the union appears less bombastic this time around. Times, Sunday Times
• It's a tad far-fetched and the bombastic soundtrack gets a little bruising after a while. Times, Sunday Times
• The song's arrangement is nearly perfect with Branch slowly building the first verse into a bombastic chorus in which she asks the song's title repeatedly.
• When you combine that with bombastic music and visual clichés it makes for an exhausting hour. Times, Sunday Times