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Sentence Examples Residents said they dismissed the crowing as bluster, but noticed a dramatic change in his life in ensuing weeks. There was bluster, bluff, and blarney, with everybody trying to talk over everybody else. The answer, it turns out, has something to do with excess humbug production and a decline in the exchange rate between bluster and bombast. Where I had expected bluster and tub-thumping, I got sweetly understated humour. His promise to the commissioner of more to come is not just a journalist's vainglorious bluster. Privately, some government officials dismiss the reaction as bluster, exaggerating the impact to win a better deal for the company. No amount of imperial bluster, disciplined armies or powerful artillery trains could impress these hardened tribes. When they negotiate, they often hide a major concession behind a barrage of bluster. Bravado, bluster, and empty threats were, after all, only useful to a certain degree. But his bluster seems to have grown as he has threw himself into the anarchic twittersphere to broadcast his views. My own view would be to let him bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants, and let that be a matter between he and his own country. He had certainly done his best to conceal it with his bluster and bravado and big bad persona. Swagger and arrogance is all very well but until that huge European Cup is hoisted aloft it is merely bluster and bravado. While the women's roles have been depicted with nuances and texture, his is all bluster and mannerism, with no depth. The rest of the speech consisted largely of jingoistic bluster and attempts at political intimidation. With his reputation for bluster and pomposity, the tall poppy was levelled in his near-death head-on on a West Australian highway. It is hard to read the auguries, so complex is this interplay of deception, self-deception, bluster and bluff. In 1997, Liam and Patsy were rock royalty, crowned on the cover of Vanity Fair in a hail of Cool Britannia bluster. In such circumstances, some recalled the bluster and bombast of Lenihan's late lamented father in other testing times. This is a time for cool heads and reasoned arguments, not for bluster and provocation. Show More Sentences We do know that they like to bluster and rattle sabres and all sorts of things. Lyrically, it doesn't go beyond braggadocious bluster and more local-musician name-drops. There was more bombast and bluster than football, the most notable happenings on the park being the accumulation of bookings. The multimillionaire tax exile's statement to the inquiry was characterised by the bluster and showmanship for which he is renowned. For all their bluster and bombast, each display of physical power proves in the end to be ineffectual. Funny how these things quickly deteriorate into name calling and bluster when met with the opposite viewpoint. Despite their rhetorical bluster at the rallies, there is every sign that the unions already regard the new legislation as a fait accompli. The burglar causes me to bark, that and the sheer pleasure of resounding, when the torches flare and the winds bluster. We're talking bluster and light-hearted trash talk as we each announce our picks. Indeed, though his bluster may encourage some to perceive him as a big-head he is nothing of the sort. If he did he'd have surely come up with better arguments than bluster and bombast. The overriding impression is one of mayhem, machismo, bluster and braggadocio. Consequently, the ones who suffer the brunt of your bluster are not Muslims in other nations that you may want to influence. It reminded us that, for all the California-Wired-Hollywood bluster, cyberpunk was essentially a British invention, synthesized first through fictions and sonics then theory. I felt some terrors at the noise and bluster of your language, the tornado-fierceness of your breathings, and above all, at the bilious and atramental cast of your temper. But he sounded marvelously in his element, extemporizing with controlled bluster and blending ecstatically with the other two horns. America can exercise power without arrogance and pursue its interests without hectoring and bluster. Many staffers, encountering him in the canteen or in early meetings, were surprised by his lack of bluster and vainglory. Mr. Speaker, the minister can bluster or indeed move over as far as he wants in talking to it. Mr. Speaker, it is interesting to hear that sort of bluster when that leader of that party voted against exactly what they are attempting to do. Show More Sentences The government can bluster and deceive all its wants but it is clear that it cannot deliver when it comes to the environment. Mr. Speaker, the hon. member has given a new definition to bluster, and something else that starts with a B, I might add. He can get up and bluster that it is CBC's decision or that CBC will be fine. The options are that the parliamentary secretary can get up and bluster that this is all the Liberal's fault. It abdicated its responsibility and covered its absence of action with bluster, pretense and misrepresentation. Mr. Speaker, there is a lot of bluster, but just because the member for Parkdale-High Park repeats it does not make it true. We would know that bluster and loose reasoning would be exposed for what they are, and we would be obliged to become more critical ourselves. I do not personally believe that British bluster is as exportable or as healthy as British beef. I am prepared to set aside most of the bluster of the member as he really did not speak to the bill at all. All of the bluster, all of the words of the Liberal member do not change that. The bluster coming from the member shows the sensitivity the Liberals have about this issue. The storm on December 11 lacked the rains of November, but its bluster crippled an already fragile power grid. Although he possesses none of the blarney and bluster of his southern Irish contemporaries, the humour is droll, earthy and occasionally laugh-out-loud. He points out there may have been something to the SOTU bluster. This is, of course, bluster, yet the harsh words come at a particularly sensitive moment. By contrast, George W. Bush launched two disastrous wars, and in so doing gave GOP bluster a bad name. I either bluster through and waffle away, mumbling on further and further away from the point in hand, or I go to the other extreme and clam up completely. In a word, Fuller excepted, they were flat, and despite the bluster one wonders who exactly will muster the requisite spark when he makes his exit. He bludgeoned his way through arguments with arrogant bluster. We shouldn't need this kind of boosterish bluster, just like it shouldn't need those stupid they-did-it-first-but-we'll-do-it-anyway painted cows or whatever. Show More Sentences And beneath that trademark Johnson bluster lies an obvious truth. I listened to the bluster and gamesmanship from that member. The timing is intriguing too. Before this news North Korea was all bellicosity and bluster. Jake has more for-real combat skills and less bluster than anyone else around. As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands. Neither the hoped-for distraction of the domestic audience nor the embellishment of elaborate diplomatic bluster fooled an already wary Spanish public. I just want to emphasise this one more time as Mr Chatzimarkakis is sitting there in front of me, having just said that the German Government's efforts were electioneering bluster. When confronted by opposition his reaction was to bluster, which often cowed the meek. We have had fine words, a lot of wind and bluster from the Commissioner in charge of reforms, Mr Kinnock, but it seems that although the Commissioner can talk the talk he has failed to walk the walk. The Justice Secretary was full of his usual bluster yesterday, yet we urge him to come down from his ivory tower. Such a lofty ambition might be considered bluster if it weren't for the fact that it resulted from a mature and disciplined strategic planning process. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. All the crass, life-affirming bluster of the previous 20 minutes disappears in a single instant when Brick spills the beans. Speak calmly and quietly, avoiding ostentation and bluster. His bumbling brood has engaged in buffoonery in their brutal budget bungles and their backstabbing and betrayal by these ministers of bark and bluster. Nevertheless, forgoing the cash suggests the regime is running out of bluster. April 10th, the day from which foreign-embassy staff were told their security could not be guaranteed, passed without incident. For him, that illustrated that underlying all the self-aggrandizing bluster from westerners and Soviets alike about their noble intentions in Afghanistan, there was a lack of real concern for the Afghan people themselves. So illiterate is some of the bluster coming from top policymakers, and so discomfiting some of their actions, that investors' confidence has been badly battered. David Schramm, his shirt heavily streaked with sweat, flails and bellows as a gum-chomping bigmouth whose amusing bluster gradually curdles into a revelation of utter bigotry. The bluster on the surface only pointed to the needfulness inside. Show More Sentences Jason Bateman, as the sleazeball fixer played in the TV series by Marc Warren, is extremely good in a small role, bringing a whole PR subculture to life and revealing the nerviness just under his blowhard bluster. A layer of loess, a rather unstable fine silt deposited by the foehn winds which bluster across the plains, covers the northern and western flanks of the peninsula. By way of courtship, the black males will fly at each other at combat speed, full of bluster, to compete for the attention of the dowdier grey hens, at sites know as leks. The pirate crew bluster and fight, but Santa's helpers outmatch them. Rupert Frazer reveals the hollowness behind the elder Forsyth's tyrannical bluster, while Geoff Breton does all that is possible to reconcile us to his wetly conventional son. He tried to bluster and took down a life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Examples from Classical Literature So saying he left the room, to bluster about Capulet like, to hurry the coming event. In any case, he saw that there was nothing he could hope to gain by violence or bluster. This was a situation, not for bluster and rage, but to be competently grappled with. The proslavery interest in the Senate is quite respectful, and does not indulge in the old-time bluster and parade. My business was to declare myself a scoundrel, and whether I did it with a bow or a bluster was of little importance. To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence. But the long serpents crawled slowly from hill to hill without bluster of smoke. But when I gave him every particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a life-preserver from the wall. And the moment after he would splurge and bluster to reassert his dignity. There was none of the bluster which can so often coarsen ensemble tone, even in a work which is so familiar. But he of The Blunder and bluster was a much higher style of man. Mr. Hapgood's bluster collapsed, like a punctured toy balloon. His quiet insistence made Archer feel the clumsiness of his own bluster. He tried to bluster out of it, but I described to him so exactly what his actions had been upon that morning that he is convinced that I was watching him. So I judged, at all events, from the fact that he forbore to bluster, and sat quite still, with his head in his hands, saying never a word for what seemed several minutes. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of bluster? Words that rhyme with bluster What is the past tense of bluster? What is the plural of bluster? What is the adverb for bluster? What is the adjective for bluster? What is the noun for bluster? Translations for bluster Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words blushy blushingly blushing Blushes blushes blushers Bluster blustered blusterer blusterers blustering blusterous 7-letter Words Starting With b bl blu blus blust bluste