How To Use rodomontade In A Sentence
- It has an oddly functional feel for a play that glories in rhetoric, rodomontade, swagger and swordplay.
- That is what is termed a rodomontade of equal foolishness to Gormless Gordon's 'decade of shared prosperity'. British Blogs
- To my mind this is not surrealism but mere pumped-up rodomontade and very much in the vein of the purple tuxedo, typical of Hitchcock's style of dress.
- I had to look up what rodomontade means and it means arrogant boasting blustering or ranting talk Think Diouf is vile? Listen to the fans | Kevin McKenna
- Despite the author's appealing, quirky sense of humor, her tale disconcerts with tasteless rodomontade more than it describes the fraught challenges in the complex geography of her portfolio. C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle
- Ditch the shining rhetoric that lets politicians, with tongues of boughten silver, give Tiffany settings to rhinestone notions, decorate nonsense with bells of ringing phrases and frame their sorry bragging in glittering rodomontade. In Vino Veritas
- I had to look up what rodomontade means and it means arrogant boasting blustering or ranting talk Think Diouf is vile? Listen to the fans | Kevin McKenna
- The football gods take a dim view of boasting after victory; boasting after defeat is a new low in rodomontade.
- (Survey report 6801 summarizing Adm. 68/195, 156v, and other data in Adm. 68/194 and/196, found in the microfilms of the Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia; A letter of Carter's executors to Dawkins 1738 May 10 refers to "your ship Bailey.") [3] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a "rodomontade" is "a vainglorious brag or boast; an extravagantly boastful or arrogant saying or speech. Letter from Robert Carter to Edward Athawes, July 31, 1731
- Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.” George Washington’s First War